Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter.

In 2000, he received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for Chocolat. In 2014, Jacobs was elected president of the Writers Guild Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting and preserving the craft of writing for the screen.

He attended Yale University, where he received the Curtis Literary Prize for his short fiction and graduated with honors. He earned his master's degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Jacobs began his career as a writer of short stories that were published in little, prestigious magazines that generated little, prestigious income. Jacobs’ love of movies brought him to California, where it took a number of years for his work to finally start paying the rent.

Jacobs’ screenplay credits include Out to Sea, Dinosaur, Chocolat, The Shipping News, Flushed Away, The Water Horse, and Extraordinary Measures.

罗伯特·尼尔森·雅各布斯（Robert Nelson Jacobs）是美国编剧。

2000年，他凭借《巧克力》获得奥斯卡最佳改编剧本提名。2014年，雅各布斯当选为作家协会基金会主席，该基金会是一个致力于促进和保护银幕写作工艺的非营利组织。

他就读于耶鲁大学，在那里他的短篇小说获得了柯蒂斯文学奖，并以优异的成绩毕业。他在爱荷华州作家工作室获得硕士学位。雅各布斯的职业生涯始于短篇小说作家，这些短篇小说发表在小而有声望的杂志上，这些杂志几乎没有产生什么有声望的收入。雅各布斯对电影的热爱将他带到了加利福尼亚，在那里他的工作花了几年时间才终于开始支付房租。

雅各布斯的剧本作品包括《出海》、《恐龙》、《巧克力》、《航运新闻》、《冲走》、《水马》和《非常措施》。