Scott Frank has written the screenplays for Little Man Tate, Dead Again, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report, The Interpreter, The Lookout, Marley & Me, A Walk Among the Tombstones and Logan, as well as the teleplays for the series Godless, The Queen’s Gambit, Monsieur Spade, and Dept Q.
He directed The Lookout (Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature), A Walk Among the Tombstones, all episodes of Godless, The Queen’s Gambit, Monsieur Spade and six episodes Dept. Q.
Out of Sight and Logan were nominated for Academy Awards for adapted screenplay. He received two Emmy awards as director and producer of The Queen’s Gambit, for which he also received the DGA award.
He received the WGA award for Out of Sight and The Queen’s Gambit. In 2025 he received the Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement in Film and Television from the WGAe. He is a board member of the Sundance Institute.