Frank was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on March 10, 1960.
He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1982 with a B.A. in film studies.
In 2008, Scott Frank’s directorial debut, The Lookout, won the Independent Spirit award for Best First Feature.
In January 2016, Frank debuted as a Novelist with Shaker. The novel is a crime mystery published by Penguin/Random House.
Along with The Lookout, Mr. Frank’s other screenplays include Little Man Tate, Dead Again, Malice, Heaven's Prisoners, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report, The Interpreter, Marley & Me, The Wolverine and A Walk Among the Tombstones (which he also directed).
