He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his 2015 film Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written with Joel and Ethan Coen.
In 2012, Charman's play Regrets, directed by Carolyn Cantor and starring Ansel Elgort opened at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York.
Set in McCarthy-era America, the play follows four men in a Nevada desert boarding house waiting out the six weeks required for a no-fault divorce.
[8] Charman's first feature was Suite Française (2014) co-written with director Saul Dibb, starring Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas and Margot Robbie.
His 2015 feature, Bridge of Spies, was directed by Steven Spielberg, co-written by Charman and Joel and Ethan Coen and starred Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, and Amy Ryan.
Bridge of Spies was a box office hit, grossing $165.5 million worldwide[10] and receiving six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, winning Best Supporting Actor for Mark Rylance's performance as Rudolf Abel.
[12] Charman is currently executive producer on Liberty, written by Neil Widener and Gavin James, an adaptation of George Koskimaki’s book "The Battered Bastards of Bastogne" for Fox 2000 about a key conflict during the Battle of the Bulge.