Scott Z. Burns (born July 17, 1962) is an American filmmaker and playwright.
After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Burns began his career in advertising and later became a television commercials director. He was part of the team at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners responsible for the original Got Milk? campaign.
Burns has written screenplays for The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Informant! (2009), and Contagion (2011), all of which feature Matt Damon. His films The Informant!, Contagion, and Side Effects (2013) were directed by Steven Soderbergh. Burns also produced the Academy Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth. Burns wrote and directed the 2019 film The Report, a drama about the secret torture program inside the CIA.

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