Donald Martin is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, with a remarkable career spanning multiple award-winning productions. His screenplay "Queen Bees" earned a nomination for the 2022 Humanitas Prize, while his work as a whole was recognized with the Margaret Collier Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Canadian Screen Awards.
Martin's writing credits include the acclaimed "Celine" (the life story of Celine Dion),for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination in 2009. In 2002, he was honored with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee Medal for his body of work and philanthropic efforts. The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television awarded him the inaugural Humanitarian Award in 2001, and he received a nomination for a Writer's Guild of Canada Award and a Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay for his feature film "Never Too Late" in 1996.
Martin's Netflix movie "Brazen", starring Alyssa Milano, premiered in January 2022 and became the #1 Netflix movie worldwide for three weeks. His comedy "Queen Bees", starring Ellen Burstyn, was released in June 2021 and received rave reviews. His adaptation of Eckhart Tolle's "Milton's Secret", starring Donald Sutherland and Michelle Rodriguez, premiered at the 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival.
Donald has been commissioned to write features for major studios and networks, including Paramount, Universal, CBS Films, The Weinstein Company, Miramax, Showtime, Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, and Escape Artists (Sony). In television, he has produced over 50 movies and mini-series, earning accolades worldwide, including Prince Albert's Red Cross Award at the Monte Carlo Film & Television Festival for his first TV movie "No Blame", which addressed the subject of women and AIDS.
Martin's TV series credits include shows for Showtime, ABC, NBC, CBC, CTV, and syndication. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America West, the Writers Guild of Canada, the Television Academy, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, and the British Academy of Film & Television Arts.
Donald has conducted workshops and given lectures at prestigious institutions such as The American Film Institute, Pepperdine University, the University of Southern California, The Los Angeles Film School, NYU's Tisch School for the Arts Asia in Singapore, The National Academy of Cinema in Bologna, Italy, The Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, and The National Screen Institute of Canada. He regularly teaches screenwriting courses at UCLA Extension.
