Nicole Holofcener

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Nicole Holofcener (born March 22, 1960 in New York City , New York ) is an American film director , screenwriter and actress .

Life

Nicole Holofcener was born as the daughter of production designer Carol Holofcener and the versatile artistically talented musician and playwright Lawrence Holofcener. Her parents divorced when Holofcener was one year old. Seven years later, her mother married Charles Joffe, who would later co-produce almost all of Woody Allen's films . The family moved to Hollywood, where Holofcener had access to the set of several Allen films.

Holofcener first attended film school at New York University and later at Columbia University , where she also graduated. During her apprenticeship, she worked occasionally as an actress, as an assistant editor and as a production assistant .

She subsequently directed several television series such as Sex and the City , Gilmore Girls and Six Feet Under , as well as television films .

The friends with money , which was positively received by the American critics but disdained by the audience, was the first of her feature-length films for which she had a larger budget . Holofcener also wrote the script for this, in which she consciously wanted to focus on the taboo topic of money . The film was made possible through the friendship with Catherine Keener , who gradually included more well-known actors in the production, so that the production costs were guaranteed. At the Women in Film Crystal Awards 2006, Holofcener won the Dorothy Arzner Directors Award for this directorial work, while it fell behind with five other nominations in the past.

Your staging style is strongly determined by independent films. He resembles both Robert Altman's and Woody Allen's in his episodic juxtaposition of interwoven fates . As she mentions in the audio commentary on Friends with Money , she always attaches great importance to a harmonious decoration of the set, in which she was shaped by her mother's job.

During the opening speech at the Sundance Film Festival 2006, she emphasized that she was a decidedly “female” director who, in the absence of suitable scripts, likes to write her own subjects. She does not see herself as a feminist , but as someone who describes what he learns about the role of women in American society.

Nicole Holofcener is the mother of twins.

Filmography

Director

script

actress

  • 1982: Rollercoaster to Hell
  • 1993: Mi vida loca

Production assistant

Awards (selection)

Writers Guild of America Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erickson, Steve: The Lovely and Amazing Nicole Holofcener . LA Magazine. May 2010. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. 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. Retrieved January 6, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lamag.com
  2. ↑ a b Bozzola, Lucia: Nicole Holofcener . All Movie Guide. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ Dave McNary: Writers Guild Awards Nominees Include 'A Star Is Born', 'Green Book', 'Roma'. In: Variety, January 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Holofcener, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, screenwriter and actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States