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David Friedman, known professionally as David Benioff or David Benioff Friedman, is an American Emmy winning novelist, scriptwriter and producer. He is best known for his novels The 25th Hour and City of Thieves, and his role as scriptwriter on Spike Lee's adaptation of his novel as 25th Hour and also on Troy, The Kite Runner, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Brothers.

David Benioff was given the A Song of Ice and Fire novels as a gift and became a big fan of the books. On 16 January 2007 HBO optioned the rights to the books and Benioff and writing partner D.B. Weiss began developing the project as a pilot script entitled Game of Thrones. The two writers appeared with George R.R. Martin at an appearance on social networking site Second Life on 31 May 2007 to discuss the project with fans. On 9 September 2008 HBO exercised their option to buy the rights and ordered a pilot on 11 November, with Benioff and Weiss appointed as executive producers and showrunners of the project.

On Game of Thrones Benioff works as executive producer, showrunner and scriptwriter. Together with D.B. Weiss he has written the majority of the episodes of the series so far. Starting with the third season, he also co-directed (with Weiss) episodes of the series.^[1]

Benioff and Weiss won the Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series 2015 Emmy Award for the Season 5 finale, "Mother's Mercy".^[2]

Speaking with Variety in April 2016, Benioff said that his favorite character is Sansa Stark - some fans (even from the books) hated her because they felt she started out as a brat, but Benioff enjoyed her character growth and inner strength as the story progresses.^[3]

Credits

Executive producer/showrunner

Writer

Game of Thrones: Season 1
Winter Is Coming *	The Kingsroad *	Lord Snow *	Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things	The Wolf and the Lion *
A Golden Crown	You Win or You Die *	The Pointy End	Baelor *	Fire and Blood *

Game of Thrones: Season 2
The North Remembers *	The Night Lands *	What Is Dead May Never Die	Garden of Bones	The Ghost of Harrenhal *
The Old Gods and the New	A Man Without Honor *	The Prince of Winterfell *	Blackwater	Valar Morghulis *

Game of Thrones: Season 3
Valar Dohaeris *	Dark Wings, Dark Words	Walk of Punishment *	And Now His Watch Is Ended *	Kissed by Fire
The Climb *	The Bear and the Maiden Fair	Second Sons *	The Rains of Castamere *	Mhysa *

Game of Thrones: Season 4
Two Swords *	The Lion and the Rose	Breaker of Chains *	Oathkeeper	First of His Name *
The Laws of Gods and Men	Mockingbird *	The Mountain and the Viper *	The Watchers on the Wall *	The Children *

Game of Thrones: Season 5
The Wars To Come *	The House of Black and White *	High Sparrow *	Sons of the Harpy	Kill the Boy
Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken	The Gift *	Hardhome *	The Dance of Dragons *	Mother's Mercy *

Game of Thrones: Season 6
The Red Woman *	Home	Oathbreaker *	Book of the Stranger *	The Door *
Blood of My Blood	The Broken Man	No One *	Battle of the Bastards *	The Winds of Winter *

Game of Thrones: Season 7
Dragonstone *	Stormborn	The Queen's Justice *	The Spoils of War *
Eastwatch	Beyond the Wall *	The Dragon and the Wolf *

Game of Thrones: Season 8
Winterfell	A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms	The Long Night *
The Last of the Starks *	The Bells *	The Iron Throne *

* Co-written with D.B. Weiss

Director

Game of Thrones: Season 3
Valar Dohaeris	Dark Wings, Dark Words	Walk of Punishment *	And Now His Watch Is Ended	Kissed by Fire
The Climb	The Bear and the Maiden Fair	Second Sons	The Rains of Castamere	Mhysa

Game of Thrones: Season 4
Two Swords *	The Lion and the Rose	Breaker of Chains	Oathkeeper	First of His Name
The Laws of Gods and Men	Mockingbird	The Mountain and the Viper	The Watchers on the Wall	The Children

Game of Thrones: Season 8
Winterfell	A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms	The Long Night
The Last of the Starks	The Bells	The Iron Throne *

* Co-directed with D.B. Weiss

Other credits

Bibliography

The 25th Hour (2002)
When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories) (2004)
City of Thieves (2008)

Scriptwriter

25th Hour (2002)
Troy (2004)
Stay (2005)
The Kite Runner (2007)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Brothers (2009)

In development

Heavier Than Heaven

Gallery

References

[1] Westeros.org

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-'''David Benioff''' is an American novelist, scriptwriter and producer. He is best known for his novels ''[[wikipedia:The 25th Hour|The 25th Hour]]'' and ''City of Thieves'', and his role as scriptwriter on [[wikipedia:Spike Lee|Spike Lee]]'s adaptation of his novel as ''[[wikipedia:25th Hour|25th Hour]]'' and also on ''[[wikipedia:Troy (film)|Troy]]'', ''[[wikipedia:The Kite Runner (film)|The Kite Runner]]'', ''[[wikipedia:X-Men Origins: Wolverine|X-Men Origins: Wolverine]]'' and ''[[wikipedia: Brothers (2009 film)|Brothers]]''.
+'''David Friedman''', known professionally as '''David Benioff''' or '''David Benioff Friedman''', is an American Emmy winning novelist, scriptwriter and producer. He is best known for his novels ''[[wikipedia:The 25th Hour|The 25th Hour]]'' and ''City of Thieves'', and his role as scriptwriter on [[wikipedia:Spike Lee|Spike Lee]]'s adaptation of his novel as ''[[wikipedia:25th Hour|25th Hour]]'' and also on ''[[wikipedia:Troy (film)|Troy]]'', ''[[wikipedia:The Kite Runner (film)|The Kite Runner]]'', ''[[wikipedia:X-Men Origins: Wolverine|X-Men Origins: Wolverine]]'', and ''[[wikipedia: Brothers (2009 film)|Brothers]]''.
-David Benioff was given the ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|Song of Ice and Fire]]'' novels as a gift and became a big fan of the books. On 16 January 2007 [[HBO]] optioned the rights to the books and Benioff and writing partner [[D.B. Weiss]] began developing the project as a pilot script entitled ''[[Game of Thrones]]''. The two writers appeared with [[George R.R. Martin]] at an appearance on social networking site ''[[wikipedia:Second Life|Second Life]]'' on 31 May 2007 to discuss the project with fans. On 9 September 2008 HBO exercised their option to buy the rights and ordered a pilot on 11 November, with Benioff and Weiss appointed as executive producers and showrunners of the project.
+David Benioff was given the ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|A&nbsp;Song of Ice and Fire]]'' novels as a gift and became a big fan of the books. On 16 January 2007 [[HBO]] optioned the rights to the books and Benioff and writing partner [[D.B. Weiss]] began developing the project as a pilot script entitled ''[[Game of Thrones]]''. The two writers appeared with [[George R.R. Martin]] at an appearance on social networking site ''[[wikipedia:Second Life|Second Life]]'' on 31 May 2007 to discuss the project with fans. On 9 September 2008 HBO exercised their option to buy the rights and ordered a pilot on 11 November, with Benioff and Weiss appointed as executive producers and showrunners of the project.
-On ''Game of Thrones'' Benioff works as executive producer, showrunner and scriptwriter. Together with D.B. Weiss he has written the majority of the episodes of the series so far. Starting with the [[Season 3|third season]], he will also be co-directing (with Weiss) episodes of the series.<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/GoT/News/Entry/Season_3_Directors/ Westeros.org]</ref>
+On ''Game of Thrones'' Benioff works as executive producer, showrunner and scriptwriter. Together with D.B. Weiss he has written the majority of the episodes of the series so far. Starting with the [[Game of Thrones: Season 3|third season]], he also co-directed (with Weiss) episodes of the series.<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/GoT/News/Entry/Season_3_Directors/ Westeros.org]</ref>
+Benioff and Weiss won the Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series 2015 Emmy Award for the Season 5 finale, "[[Mother's Mercy]]".<ref>[http://watchersonthewall.com/game-of-thrones-breaks-the-record-for-most-emmy-wins-in-a-year/ ]</ref>
-==Series credits==
+Speaking with ''Variety'' in April 2016, Benioff said that his favorite character is [[Sansa Stark]] - some fans (even from the books) hated her because they felt she started out as a brat, but Benioff enjoyed her character growth and inner strength as the story progresses.<ref>[http://variety.com/video/game-of-thrones-who-is-winning-killed-off/ ]</ref>
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+* [[Game of Thrones: Season 5|''Game of Thrones'': Season 5]]
+* [[Game of Thrones: Season 6|''Game of Thrones'': Season 6]]
+* [[Game of Thrones: Season 7|''Game of Thrones'': Season 7]]
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 * ''[[wikipedia:Heavier Than Heaven|Heavier Than Heaven]]''
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-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benioff David Benioff's Wikipedia entry.]
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