Will Tracy

{{Short description|American film producer and writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Will Tracy | image = Will Tracy portrait 1.jpg | caption = Tracy in 2025 | occupation = Film producer, screenwriter }} '''Will Tracy''' is an American film producer and writer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/1108585/how-the-onion-helped-screenwriters-seth-reiss-and-will-tracy-craft-the-menu-exclusive-interview/|title=How The Onion Helped Screenwriters Seth Reiss And Will Tracy Craft 'The Menu' [Exclusive Interview]|first=Jack|last=Giroux|date=November 18, 2022|website=SlashFilm}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmfreeway.com/articles/bugonia-writer-will-tracy-interview/|title=Will Tracy on How Isolation Fueled His Writing for “Bugonia”|date=October 16, 2025}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2012/10/will-tracy-what-i-read/322661/|title=Will Tracy: What I Read|first=Serena|last=Dai|date=October 11, 2012|website=The Atlantic}}</ref> He is the former editor in chief of ''The Onion''.<ref name="auto">https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/02/29/regime-hbo-winslet-tracy-succession/</ref> He attended Vassar College where he received a degree in English.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dailybruin.com/2011/02/09/the_onion_editors_to_visit_ucla_campus/|title=The Onion editors to visit UCLA campus|website=Daily Bruin}}</ref> Tracy was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Yorgos Lanthimos' ''Bugonia'' (2025). <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2026-oscars-nominees-list-1236481075/|title=2026 Oscars: Full List of Nominations|website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>

==Filmography==

=== Television === {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Writer ! Producer !Ref. |- | 2014–2017 | ''Last Week Tonight with John Oliver'' | {{yes}} | {{no}} | |- | 2019–2023 | ''Succession'' | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | |- | 2024 | ''The Regime''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/393853/succession-producer-creates-new-power-struggle-s.html|title='Succession' Producer Creates New Power Struggle Story, 'The Regime'|website=www.mediapost.com}}</ref><ref>https://www.npr.org/2024/03/03/1235606510/will-tracy-creator-of-hbos-regime-on-the-dark-comedy-about-a-european-autocrat</ref> | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | |- | 2025 | ''Mountainhead'' | {{no}} | {{yes}} | |- |}

=== Feature film === {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Writer ! Producer !Ref. |- | 2022 | ''The Menu''<ref name="auto"/> | {{yes}} | {{yes|Executive}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9764362/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm|title=The Menu [2022] - Full Cast and Crew |website=IMDBb |publisher=IMDb.com |access-date=18 May 2026}}</ref> | |- |rowspan=2|2025 | ''Bugonia''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/bugonia-ari-aster-yorgos-lanthimos-will-tracy-korean-remake-1236024376/|title='Bugonia': How Ari Aster, 'Succession' Writer Will Tracy and Yorgos Lanthimos Came Together to Remake a Korean Sci-Fi Classic|first=Soomee|last=Park|date=October 4, 2024}}</ref> | {{yes}} | {{no}} | |- | ''Eddington'' | {{no}} | {{yes|Executive}} | |- |}

== References == {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|nm4301557}}

{{EmmyAward ComedyVarietyMusicWriting 2010s}} {{San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tracy, Will}} Category:21st-century American screenwriters Category:American film producers Category:Living people Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners Category:Vassar College alumni Category:Year of birth missing (living people)