Alec Sokolow

{{short description|American screenwriter}}

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| notableworks = Toy Story
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Alec Sokolow is an American screenwriter who has worked on such projects as the films Cheaper by the Dozen,{{cite news |title=Cheaper by the Dozen – Mining the Sanitized … |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9507E4D61531F936A15751C1A9659C8B63|last=Holden|first=Steve |work=The New York Times |date=December 25, 2003 |accessdate=May 7, 2009}} Toy Story,{{Cite web |url=http://disneydvd.disney.go.com/toy-story-10th-anniversary-edition.html |title=Toy Story 10th Anniversary Edition - WDSHE |access-date=December 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201003910/http://disneydvd.disney.go.com/toy-story-10th-anniversary-edition.html |archive-date=February 1, 2009 |url-status=dead }} Money Talks,{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} and Garfield: The Movie.{{cite news |title=A Cat From the Comics, Full of Lasagna |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9503EEDA1430F932A25755C0A9629C8B63 |work=The New York Times|date=June 11, 2004 |last=Scott|first=A. O. |accessdate=May 7, 2009}} He frequently works with writing partner Joel Cohen.

Along with Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft, and Cohen, Sokolow was nominated in 1995 for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for his work on Toy Story.{{cite web|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearch?action=searchLink&displayType=3&BSFilmID=38260|title=Academy Awards database|accessdate=December 9, 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707092805/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearch?action=searchLink&displayType=3&BSFilmID=38260|archive-date=July 7, 2012|url-status=dead}}

Beyond writing, Sokolow and Cohen jointly directed Monster Mash: The Movie (1995) and executive produced Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber (2008).