Ernest ThompsonErnest Thompson has written numerous films, plays, and songs, and has worked extensively as an actor and director. In addition to his Oscar for On Golden Pond, Ernest's work has won two Golden Globes, a Writers Guild Award, a Broadway Drama Guild Awad, and been nominated for a Tony, an Emmy, and a British Academy Award. His plays have been seen in theaters around the world, his most enduring, On Golden Pond, translated into thirty languages and presented in more than forty countries. He is developing Cries of Valor in Defiance, depicting life in the pandemic and, with his writer wife Kerrin Thompson, has established Rescind Recidivism, a prison writing program designed to give inmates a chance to feel creative as well as human, capable, and worthy. Read More Read Less