Credits: CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

BILLY RAY wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for “Captain Phillips,” for which he won the WGA award. Ray’s films as writer, co-writer, or writer-director include “The Hunger Games,” “Richard Jewell,” “Shattered Glass,” “The Last Tycoon,” and Showtime’s “The Comey Rule,” which had the biggest debut of any limited series in that network’s history. He serves on the boards of Common Defense – a vets’ org – and Big Sunday, and believes in democracy, justice, and the Dodgers.