Trevor Groth, Charlie Kaufman, Rosa Tran, Joe Passarelli, and Duke Johnson

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Charlie Kaufman at an event for Anomalisa (2015)

Charlie Kaufman at an event for Anomalisa (2015)

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan, Charlie Kaufman, Rosa Tran, and Duke Johnson at an event for Anomalisa (2015)

Kate Winslet and Charlie Kaufman at an event for The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005)

Kate Winslet, Michel Gondry, and Charlie Kaufman

Michel Gondry, Charlie Kaufman, and Pierre Bismuth at an event for The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005)

Dana Carvey, Louis C.K., Steve Carell, Bill Chott, Stephen Colbert, Jon Glaser, Charlie Kaufman, Heather Morgan, Robert Smigel, Dino Stamatopoulos, Michael Stoyanov, and Robert Carlock in Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show (2017)

Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, and Charlie Kaufman in The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005)

Kate Winslet, Michel Gondry, and Charlie Kaufman in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Charlie Kaufman in Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Kaufman, and Michelle Williams in Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Charlie Kaufman and Robin Weigert in Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Frederick Elmes and Charlie Kaufman in Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson in Anomalisa (2015)

Charlie Kaufman, Rosa Tran, and Duke Johnson at an event for 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

Charlie Kaufman at an event for 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)