Noah Baumbach

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Noah Baumbach (2017) at the Cannes International Film Festival

Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American screenwriter and film director .

Live and act

Noah Baumbach studied at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in the US state of New York. There he shared a room with the later film producer Jason Blum . After completing their studies, Baumbach and Blum moved to Chicago, where they shared an apartment.

Baumbach made his debut as a writer and director in 1995 with the film Kicking and Screaming . Jason Blum acted as executive producer for this. They later parted ways. Baumbach's second film Highball , which he released under the pseudonym Ernie Fusco, followed two years later.

Baumbach received international attention with his film The Squid and the Whale , a semi-biographical film about the divorce of his parents in the mid-1980s. The film was a huge success and won multiple awards, including two awards at the Sundance Film Festival , a nomination for Best Screenplay at the Oscars , six nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards and three for the Golden Globes .

In 2010 he received an invitation to compete at the 60th Berlin Film Festival for his sixth feature film, Greenberg .

In 2019, the tragic comedy Marriage Story premiered at the Venice International Film Festival , for which Baumbach wrote the script, directed and was also involved as a producer. Baumbach received several nominations for important film awards for his work on the film, including the Golden Globe Award .

From 2005 to 2013, Baumbach was married to actress Jennifer Jason Leigh . The two have a child together. Baumbach is in a relationship with the actress Greta Gerwig , with whom he has also worked together since the film Frances Ha (2012).

Trivia

The band Noah and the Whale was named after the director and his film The Squid and the Whale . The film director played by Charles Grodin in “Feels like mid-twenties” is modeled after the real film director Brian De Palma . This is an old friend of Baumbach's parents; Baumbach also shot the highly acclaimed documentary “De Palma” about him together with Jake Paltrow , which premiered in 2015 at the Venice Film Festival.

Filmography (selection)

Script and direction
Script only

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Can Budget Slasher Jason Blum Prove the Way Hollywood Makes Movies Is Horrifyingly Wrong? at laweekly.com, accessed October 25, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Baumbach, Noah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jesse Carter; Ernie Fusco (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City, USA