Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage he's most known for his seminal work Angels in America which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.

Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie.

In 2003 he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical Caroline, or Change which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The 2021 Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change earned Kushner a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, making Kushner among the few playwrights in history nominated for all four major American entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.

He has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), West Side Story (2021), and The Fabelmans (2022), the former two earning him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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安东尼·罗伯特·库什纳（Anthony Robert Kushner，1956年7月16日-），美国作家、剧作家、编剧。他因在舞台上的工作而受到赞誉，最出名的是他的开创性作品《美国天使》，该作品获得了普利策奖和托尼奖。在21世纪之交，他因与史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格（Steven Spielberg）的众多电影合作而闻名。他于2013年获得巴拉克·奥巴马总统颁发的国家艺术奖章。

库什纳于 1993 年在百老汇首次亮相，同时演出了《美国天使：千禧年之路》和《美国天使：改革》。他获得了普利策戏剧奖和托尼奖最佳戏剧奖。然后，他将其改编成 2003 年由迈克·尼科尔斯 （Mike Nichols） 执导的迷你剧，库什纳因此获得了黄金时段艾美奖限定剧集或电影杰出编剧奖。

2003年，他为音乐剧《卡罗琳》写了歌词和书，该剧获得了库什纳托尼奖最佳音乐书和最佳原创配乐的提名。2021 年百老汇复兴的《卡罗琳，或改变》为库什纳赢得了 2023 年格莱美奖最佳音乐剧专辑提名，使库什纳成为历史上为数不多的获得美国四大娱乐奖提名的剧作家：艾美奖、格莱美奖、奥斯卡奖和托尼奖。

他曾与导演史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格合作拍摄了电影《慕尼黑》（2005 年）、《林肯》（2012 年）、《西区故事》（2021 年）和《法贝尔曼一家》（2022 年），前两部电影为他赢得了奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖提名。