Lindsay Doran

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Lindsay Doran (born June 22, 1948 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American film producer who was nominated for an Oscar in 1996.

Life

Doran was born into a family who worked in the film industry, her father DA Doran was a film producer, her mother Marion Avery worked for screenwriter and director Preston Sturges and later headed the feature film department at Columbia Pictures . Doran's brother Daniel, a publicist , was involved in the 2001 science fiction film : A Space Odyssey . In 1967, Doran wrote on Barnard College one, an independent college of liberal arts (liberal arts) and science for women in Manhattan , New York . She studied "English Literature", but had to transfer her studies to the University of California in Los Angeles after a year for financial reasons . After three semesters, she moved to the University of California at Santa Cruz and attended lectures in dance, art history, music and architecture. After graduating in 1971, Doran moved to London . There she often stayed in the Brompton Road Library and discovered her love for the novels of Jane Austen . Especially did it their early novel Sence and Sensibility (dt. Sense and Sensibility ) to. Doran moved from London to State College in Pennsylvania , where she worked for seven years on public television, first as a secretary and later as a producer and writer. There she also met her future husband, the architectural designer Rodney Kemerer. With him she went back to Los Angeles, where she first worked for the Screen Actors Guild and then moved to the Hollywood studio Avco Embassy Pictures, where she rose to become an executive. There she worked on comedies by Rob Reiner ( This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and Der Volltreffer ( The Sure Thing , 1985)) with. In 1985, she became vice president of the production division of Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. In addition to other films, she was jointly responsible for the development of films such as Ferris macht blau (1986), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Nackte Kanone (1988) and Ghost - Message from Sam (1990). In 1991 she developed the script for the film Shadows of the Past . This resulted in a professional relationship with leading actress Emma Thompson , which resulted in five films over a period of 20 years.

In 1989, Doran joined Mirage Enterprises, a studio co-founded by Sydney Pollack , as a producer. One of her first acts there was to propose the film version of Sence and Sensibility , her favorite book. After the film Shadows of the Past was shot, she was able to win Emma Thompson for one of the leading roles. The actress also wrote the script for the film and was awarded an Oscar for it. The production was nominated in six other categories in 1996, including Lindsay Doran in the “Best Film” category . However, the Oscar went to Bruce Davey , Mel Gibson and Alan Ladd Jr. and the period film Braveheart . In the same year Doran moved to United Artists , where she replaced John Calley , the previous president. Emma Thompson got in touch with Doran and suggested that the stories of the magical nurse Nurse Matilda by Christianna Brand be made into a film and that she be cast in the lead role. This resulted in the fantasy film A Magical Nanny in 2005 and the sequel A Magical Nanny in 2010 - pop into a new adventure . During her time as President and CEO at UA, Doran oversaw other films, including The Company (1993), James Bond 007 - Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Ronin (1998), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), James Bond 007: The World Is Not Enough (1999) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). In 1999 Doran resigned from her position and devoted herself to the production of feature films on her own. Her production company Three Strange Angels Inc. was able to fall back on an exclusive contract with MGM and UA. However, films did not result from this collaboration. In 2006 Doran produced the fantasy film Weird as Fiction , in which Emma Thompson plays the writer Karen Eiffel, who always lets her heroes die at the end of their stories.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • 1993: Nomination for the CableACE Award with A Private Matter
  • 1994: Nomination for the CableACE Award with the television series Fallen Angels
  • 1996 : Oscar nomination for Sense and Sensibility
  • 1996: Winner of the BAFTA Award with Sense and Sensuality

Web links

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  1. ^ Industry vet Doran dies at 96 Variety .com (English). Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Nancy Mills: Lindsay Doran Kept Her Sites On Bringing `Sense And Sensibility 'To The Screen Chicago Tribune , March 17, 1996 (English). Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Michaela Haas: "Laughing for two hours in the dark can't hurt"  Sometimes films have the power to heal souls. Hollywood producer Lindsay Doran explains how to do it. Süddeutsche Zeitung , issue 22/2012. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ Emma Thompson: How Jane Austen saved me from going under independent.co.uk. (English). Retrieved February 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Doran, Lindsay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California