He wrote Three to Tango, a 1999 film which starred Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, and Dylan McDermott,[1] and in 2001 won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special for Run the Wild Fields.
[1] Vaccaro began his career in Hollywood writing scripts for Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Cimino in the late 1990s, though none of their collaborations amounted to anything.
[citation needed] In 1999, Vaccaro's script Three to Tango saw the light of day, though it was ultimately rewritten by Aline Brosh McKenna.
In 2001, Vaccaro won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special for Run the Wild Fields (tied with A Storm in Summer[3]).
[3] Some of his other produced screenplays include MGM's Bigger Than the Sky, featuring John Corbett, Amy Smart, and Sean Astin, TNT's The Engagement Ring, featuring Patricia Heaton, David Hunt, Tony Lo Bianco and Lainie Kazan, and CBS's Snow Wonder starring Mary Tyler Moore.