Eric Max Frye (born 1956) is an American screenwriter and film director[1] from Oregon.
In 2015, he received an Academy Award nomination for co-writing, with Dan Futterman, the original screenplay for Foxcatcher.
[2][3] Other early writing credits included the 1993 comedy film Amos & Andrew, which Frye also directed,[2] and the third episode in the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers .
[4][3] Frye was a co-screenwriter for Foxcatcher (2014), a film about John Eleuthere du Pont and his 1996 murder of World and Olympic champion wrestler, Dave Schultz.
Director Bennett Miller came to Frye with the project, who was intrigued by the reverse direction of the story arc: instead of an athlete working his or her way to the top, this story began with an Olympic champion who finds himself back at the bottom.