Laurie Collyer

Laurie Collyer (* 1967 in Mountainside , New Jersey ) is an American film director and screenwriter . She became internationally known through films such as SherryBaby or Sunlight Jr.

life and career

Laurie Collyer was born in Mountainside, New Jersey in 1967. After graduating from Oberlin College in Ohio and attending NYU Film School , where she financed some student films herself, she worked in the film business in the mid-1990s, first as a script supervisor and assistant director, before taking on the production and directing of the documentary Nuyorican Dream first attracted attention in 2000. The directorial work Nuyorican Dream has been shown at numerous well-known film festivals in Germany and abroad and has been nominated for various awards, including the production of Collyer received 2000 nominations at the Sundance Film Festival , the Directors Guild of America and 2001 at the ALMA Awards . Laurie Collyer also won awards for Best Director at the International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana , the Cinéma du Réel in Paris and the LA Outfest , where she was honored with the Audience Award in the Outstanding Documentary Feature category.

In 2006 she succeeded in staging the drama SherryBaby with Maggie Gyllenhaal in the lead role, another highly acclaimed production. The film and directing were again nominated for numerous festival prizes and awards, including Maggie Gyllenhaal's 2007 nomination for best actress for the Golden Globe Award .

In 2013 Laurie Collyer wrote the script for the drama Sunlight Jr. and also directed it. The film, with the cast of Norman Reedus , Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon , received nominations at the Women Film Critics Circle Awards and at the Tribeca Film Festival that same year .

In 2018 she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Awards (selection)

• 2000: Honored at LA Outfest with the Audience Award in the Outstanding Documentary Feature category for the documentary Nuyorican Dream
• 2000: Nomination at the Sundance Film Festival for the Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary category for the film Nuyorican Dream
• 2006: Nomination at the Sundance Film Festival for the Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category for the film SherryBaby
• 2006: Honored at the Deauville Film Festival in the Best Screenplay category for the film SherryBaby
• 2006: Honored at the Stockholm International Film Festival with the Bronze Horse for the film SherryBaby
• 2006: Honored at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with the Crystal Globe for the film SherryBaby
• 2013: Nomination at the Tribeca Film Festival in the category Best Narrative Feature for the film Sunlight Jr.

Filmography (selection)

Director

• 2000: Nuyorican Dream (documentary)
• 2006: SherryBaby
• 2013: Sunlight Jr.
• 2015: The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (TV miniseries, 2 episodes)
• 2018: Furlough
• 2019-2020: Billions (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2020: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series, 1 episode)

script

• 2006: SherryBaby
• 2013: Sunlight Jr.

production

• 2000: Nuyorican Dream (documentary)

literature

• Laurie Collyer. International Documentary: The Newsletter of the International Documentary Association, Volume 20. , International Documentary Association, 2001, p. 46

Web links

• Laurie Collyer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Filmography by Laurie Collyer in: The New York Times
• Interview with Laurie Collyer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Laurie Collyer ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ SherryBaby in: The New York Times
3. ^ Sunlight Jr. in: The New York Times
4. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).