His long collaboration with Nancy Meyers produced a string of hit movies, including “Baby Boom” and “Father of the Bride,” ...

He and his ex-wife Nancy Meyers worked together on several films, including "Baby Boom" and "Irreconcilable Differences" The ...

Charles Shyer, the Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker known for classic comedies like "Private Benjamin," "Baby Boom ...

Shyer’s breakthrough arrived three years later as co-writer for “Private Benjamin,” teaming up with Harvey Miller and Nancy Meyers, who he married the same year. The 1980 film starring ...

Shyer also co-wrote movies like 1998's "The Parent Trap" and 1977's "Smokey and the Bandit." Charles Shyer, who directed hit ...

The film became a major box office success ... an Academy Award nod for best supporting actress. "Private Benjamin" premiered in 1980, and Shyer and Meyers tied the knot in Rome that same year.

He and Meyers, who were married for 19 years until divorcing in 1999, famously wrote Private Benjamin (1980). The film, which earned a nod at the 53th Academy Awards for original screenplay ...

In 1977, he received his first feature film credit for Smokey and the Bandit starring Burt Reynolds. He later teamed up with Nancy Meyers and Harvey Miller to cowrite 1980’s Private Benjamin ...

Shyer’s Oscar nomination, as well as a WGA Award win, came for the original screenplay for 1980’s comedy hit Private Benjamin starring ... the title role of the film, written, directed and ...