{{short description|Australian screenwriter (born 1953)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} '''Jan Vittorio Sardi''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (born 1953)<ref name="austlit">{{cite web |title=Jan Sardi |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A5141 |website=AustLit |accessdate=20 August 2020 |archive-date=23 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123021213/https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A5141 |url-status=live }}</ref> is an Australian screenwriter. In 1997, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay), for ''Shine''. He wrote and directed the 2004 film ''Love's Brother''. He adapted the novel by Nicholas Sparks for ''The Notebook'' (2004).<ref name="mwf">{{cite web|url=http://www.mwf.com.au/2008/content/mwf_2008_standard.asp?name=SardiJ |title=Jan Sardi |publisher=Melbourne Writers Festival |accessdate=3 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102154545/http://www.mwf.com.au/2008/content/mwf_2008_standard.asp?name=SardiJ |archivedate= 2 January 2011 }}</ref> Sardi also adapted Li Cunxin's memoir for the film ''Mao's Last Dancer'' (2009)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/getmedia/7443e970-a5e6-436f-8da8-0d0fe2054e77/auswriters.pdf|title=A Selection of Top Grossing Australian Screen Writers|publisher=Screen Australia|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313201728/http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/getmedia/7443e970-a5e6-436f-8da8-0d0fe2054e77/AusWriters.pdf|archivedate=13 March 2016|url-status=dead|accessdate=29 February 2016}}</ref> and the miniseries ''The Secret River'' (co-written with Mac Gudgeon), based on the novel by Kate Grenville.
==Writer==
* ''Moving Out'' (1983) * ''Street Hero'' (1984) * ''Breakaway'' (1990) * ''Mission: Impossible'' (1990) (S2E30: “Deadly Harvest") * ''Halifax f.p.'' (1995) (S1E3: “Lies of the Mind") * ''Shine'' (1996) * ''Love's Brother'' (2004) (also director) * ''The Notebook'' (2004) (adapted novel) * ''Mao's Last Dancer'' (2009) (adapted memoir) * ''The Secret River'' (2015, miniseries) (co-written with Mac Gudgeon)
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