Michael Kozoll

{{short description|American screenwriter}}

Michael Kozoll is an American screenwriter.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/426616967/|title='Hill Street' not taking directions co-creator hoped|first=Fred|last=Rothenberg|work=The Paducah Sun|location=Paducah, Kentucky|date=July 11, 1984|access-date=June 10, 2022|page=23|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} He is perhaps best known for creating the police procedural television series Hill Street Blues along with Steven Bochco.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/arts/television/steven-bochco-and-others-on-creating-hill-street-blues.html|title=Being Careful Out There? Hardly|work=The New York Times|date=May 1, 2014|access-date=June 10, 2022|first=Lorne|last=Manly}} Kozoll wrote for television programs including Delvecchio, Quincy, M.E., McCloud, Richie Brockelman, Private Eye and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He won two Primetime Emmy Awards, and was nominated for two more, in the category Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for his work on Hill Street Blues.{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/michael-kozoll|title=Michael Kozoll|work=Television Academy|access-date=June 10, 2022}} In 1981 he

won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, along with Bochco and Gregory Hoblit.{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1981/outstanding-drama-series|title=Outstanding Drama Series Nominees / Winners 1981|work=Television Academy|access-date=June 10, 2022}}