Damien Chazelle

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Damien Chazelle (2014)

Damien Sayre Chazelle (born January 19, 1985 in Providence , Rhode Island ) is an American - French screenwriter and film director . He gained fame especially from the end of the 2000s through music films inspired by jazz . For the musical film La La Land (2016), he won two Golden Globe Awards in the categories of director and screenplay as well as the Oscar in the category of best director .

Life

Damien Chazelle is the son of the French computer scientist Bernard Chazelle . In high school , he tried to become a jazz drummer, but quickly realized that he lacked the necessary talent. Instead, he focused again on his first career aspiration as a filmmaker. He attended Harvard University , where he studied Visual and Environmental Studies . There he met his future wife Jasmin McGlade, who also works in the film business.

His film debut as a director was the jazz musical film Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench . As a screenwriter he wrote the film The Last Exorcism: The Next Chapter (2013) with Ed Gass-Donnelly and was the sole screenwriter of the thriller Grand Piano - Symphony of Fear (2013). He also revised the screenplay The Cellar , written by Josh Campbell and Matthew Stuecken , which was finally filmed by Dan Trachtenberg under the title 10 Cloverfield Lane and released in theaters in 2016.

His real intention, however, was to implement his own ideas, and so from 2012 he looked for donors for the film Whiplash . After the script was on the so-called "Black List" in 2012, he found several producers, including Helen Estabrook , who also brought actor JK Simmons into discussion as one of the leading actors. A short film was commissioned for the Sundance Film Festival to attract additional donors. Whiplash actually won the festival's short film award. Then the film could be shot, which received the Grand Jury Award and the Audience Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival . On the American Film Festival in 2014, he also won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. The film was nominated for five awards at the 2015 Academy Awards and won awards for supporting actor , editing and sound .

In 2016, Chazelle's third feature film, La La Land, opened the competition at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival . The musical is about an ambitious jazz pianist (played by Ryan Gosling ) and an aspiring actress ( Emma Stone ) who fall in love in contemporary Los Angeles . The film won more than 100 awards in the 2016/17 American film awards season and won Chazelle the awards in the categories of Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2017 Golden Globe Awards . When the Oscar nominations were announced in 2017 , La La Land received a record 14 nominations, including Chazelle in the categories of Director and Original Screenplay . The film ultimately received six awards, but had to admit defeat to the drama Moonlight in the Best Picture category . At the age of 32, Chazelle was the youngest ever to be honored with an Oscar for directing.

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 2009: Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
  • 2013: Whiplash (short film)
  • 2014: Whiplash
  • 2016: La La Land
  • 2018: Departure to the Moon (First Man)
  • 2020: The Eddy (Miniseries, 2 episodes)
  • 2020: The Stunt Double (short film)

Screenwriter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Galloway: Damien Chazelle Shoots the Moon: Oscar's Youngest Best Director Grows Up With 'First Man' . Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  2. ^ Sarah Sweeney: A movie as a mirror . Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  3. ^ Damien Chazelle interview, Blacklist . Retrieved January 24, 2015.
  4. ^ Critic Reviews for Whiplash . In: Metacritic . Retrieved January 24, 2015. 
  5. ^ Lindsey Bahr: 'Whiplash': Sundance-winning short to become full-length feature - BREAKING . In: Entertainment Weekly . CNN . May 14, 2013. Retrieved January 19, 2014.
  6. ↑ Steven Zeitchik: Sundance 2014 winners: 'Whiplash' wins big . In: Los Angeles Times . Tribune Company . January 25, 2014. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  7. ^ Rhonda Richford: 'Whiplash' Takes Top Prize in Deauville . In: The Hollywood Reporter . Prometheus Global Media . Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  8. ↑ Oscars 2017: La La Land's Damien Chazelle becomes youngest to win Best Director at independent.co.uk, February 27, 2017 (accessed March 1, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Chazelle, Damien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chazelle, Damien Sayre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island , United States