[1][2][3][4] Following high school at Montgomery Bell Academy, Schulman earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in philosophy, graduating in 1972 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Schulman pursued his interest in film at the University of Southern California's Graduate School of Cinema.
[5] Dead Poets Society won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1989, and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director (Peter Weir).
He was hired to rewrite the hit movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids shortly before the film was due to begin shooting; Schulman had just seven days to turn it from a drama into a comedy.
The Sean Connery drama Medicine Man, originally entitled The Stand,[6] proved a critical failure.