Charlie Kaufman

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Charlie Kaufman at the Sarajevo Film Festival , 2008

Charles Stuart "Charlie" Kaufman (born November 19, 1958 in New York City ) is an American screenwriter and film director . In 2005 he won (together with two co-authors) the Oscar in the category “ Best Original Screenplay ” for the film Forget mine! He had previously been nominated twice for an Academy Award .

Live and act

Charlie Kaufman studied at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University . His career began as a television series writer . He wrote two episodes of Chris Elliott's sitcom Get a Life , which was followed by several dozen episodes from television series such as Ned and Stacy and The Dana Carvey Show .

He first caught the focus of international attention as the author of Spike Jonze's debut feature film Being John Malkovich (1999) - an achievement that received an Oscar nomination in 2000. He then wrote the screenplay for Human Nature - The Crown of Creation , which Michel Gondry directed for the first time. Both Jonze and Gondry were already among the best-known and most imaginative music video directors at this point, but they hadn't gotten beyond short film productions. The collaboration with Kaufman as a screenwriter continued after these successful debuts.

Kaufman wrote the script for Jonze's next film adaptation, The Orchid Thief , in 2002 , which earned him another Oscar nomination. Based on a film biography by Chuck Barris , he also wrote the screenplay for George Clooney's first directorial work , Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002).

For forget mine ( Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , 2004), Gondry's second feature film, Kaufman was again nominated for an Oscar - and won it.

In 2008 Kaufman made his debut as a film director with Synecdoche, New York, and received an invitation to compete at the 61st Cannes Film Festival . Lionsgate hired him in April 2012 to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of the novel Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness .

His second feature film as a director, the stop-motion cartoon Anomalisa , was made with Duke Johnson as a co-director. The film, partly funded by a Kickstarter campaign, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September 2015 .

On January 25, 2018, it was announced that Charlie Kaufman would adapt the novel I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid for Netflix . He will write the script, direct and produce together with Reid and Anthony Bregman .

style

His scripts, especially the three Oscar nominees, blur the line between reality and dream world without producing pure fantasy films. In Adaptation - The Orchid Thief is played with this uncertainty in the credits: the allegedly deceased co-author Donald Kaufman is listed there - in the film as well as his identical twin Charlie Kaufman played by Nicolas Cage .

Quote

"The usual thing for a writer is to deliver a script and then disappear. That's not for me. I want to be involved from beginning to end. And these directors [Gondry, Jonze] know that, and respect it. "

“Usually a screenwriter delivers his script and then disappears. That's not for me. I want to be involved from start to finish. And these directors [Gondry, Jonze] know and respect it. "

- Interview with the Seattle Post, 2004

Filmography

As a screenwriter of feature films, unless otherwise stated:

Awards (selection)

Academy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

  • 2000: Nomination for Best Screenplay ( Being John Malkovich )
  • 2003: Nomination for the best screenplay ( adaptation. )
  • 2005: Nomination for Best Screenplay ( Forget Me Not! )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lionsgate Selects Charlie Kaufman to Adapt Book 1 of Chaos Walking Series
  2. ^ Charlie Kaufman To Adapt 'Chaos Walking', Lionsgate's Next Franchise Play
  3. ↑ Charlie Kaufman is shooting the Netflix thriller I'm Thinking of Ending Things . In: moviepilot.de . January 25, 2018 ( moviepilot.de [accessed January 26, 2018]).
  4. ↑ seattlepi.nwsource.com - Seattle Post-Intelligencer , A moment with ... Charlie Kaufman, screenwriter , William Arnold, March 19, 2004 (page accessed January 8, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Kaufman, Charlie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaufman, Charles Stuart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City