For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

In 2012 Callie Khouri developed the ABC musical drama series Nashville starring Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere. Filmography


Awards and nominations. Thelma & Louise won Khouri the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay a Golden Globe Award and a PEN Literary Award as well as the London Film Critics Circle Award for Film of the Year and a nomination for Best Original Screenplay from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

In 1992 Callie Khouri won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for the film Thelma & Louise which was controversial upon its release because of its progressive representation of gender politics but which subsequently became a classic. Callie Khouri (born November 27 1957 as Carolyn Ann Khouri) is an American screenwriter producer and film director.