David Ethan Shapiro，His feature screenplay, The Last Maccabee, became an Academy Nicholl Semi-Finalist in 2013, a year in which the Academy received a record 7,251 submissions from 79 countries, with only 147 semi-finalists in 2013. Previous Nicholl Semi-Finalists include such famed writers as Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad), Damon Lindelof (Lost, Star Trek) and ... See more trivia »