His paternal grandfather, Louis Futterman was from Chisinäu. Dan Futterman wrote the screenplay for the film Capote, for which he received an Academy Award nomination, and Independent Spirit, Boston Society of Film Critics, and Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards. He received a second Academy Award nomination for co-writing the script to Foxcatcher in 2014. Futterman is also known for several high-profile acting roles, including Val Goldman in the film The Birdcage, and Vincent Gray on the CBS television series Judging Amy. Dan Futterman not only writes and acts in movies and on television, but often co-produces these projects as well. He has frequently written scripts and executive produced alongside his wife, such as on the HBO series In Treatment. Futterman also adapted and produced a ten part series for Fox, Gracepoint. Dan Futterman, Lawrence Wright and Alex Gibney are executive producers of The Looming Tower for Hulu in 2018. He is the showrunner of the 2021 Showtime series American Rust. He also ap- eared as the American half of a pair of twenty-something con artists in London in Shooting Fish (1997). He had the leading role as a befuddled young gay man seeking for his missing lover in the NYC-based award-winning drama/thriller Urbania. He played "Joe" in the 2002 film Enough, with Jennifer Lopez. Futterman's film A Mighty Heart (2007) with Angelina Jolie; he portrays murdered journalist Daniel Pearl.