Thomas H. Schulman (born October 20, 1950 in Nashville) is an American screenwriter best known for his semi-autobiographical screenplay for Dead Poets Society. The film won the Best Screenplay Academy Award for 1989, and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director (Peter Weir).Schulman earned a BA in philosophy from his hometown university, Vanderbilt.Though Schulman had already written a number of telemovies, Dead Poets Society was his first movie script to reach the screen.