David Hemingson is the screenwriter and producer of the Oscar-nominated film The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne.

This film is about a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.

The Holdovers is nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Paul Giamatti, Best Supporting Actress for Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Best Original Screenplay for David Hemingson, and Best Film Editing.