Stephen Daldry

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Stephen Daldry , CBE (born May 2, 1961 in Dorset , England ) is a British theater and film director.

Life

Stephen Daldry, son of singer Cerry Thompson and bank manager Patrick Daldry, began at a young age to join the youth theater in Taunton and, after studying English at Sheffield University, trained as a circus clown with the Italian Elder Milletti . From 1985 to 1988 he was a member of the Sheffield Crucible Theater , but only became known as a theater director after moving to London's The Gate Theater with the production of Damned for Despair (1991). From 1992 to 1999 Daldry was artistic director of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theater , which he had torn down and rebuilt. One of his greatest successes was directing John Boynton Priestley's An Inspector Calls (1992), for which he received all the major British theater awards such as the Laurence Olivier Theater Award , the London Evening Standard Theater Award or the London Critics' Circle Theater Award . The production of the London National Theater was relocated to New York's Broadway in 1994 and earned Daldry the renowned Tony Award for best theater director and the Drama Desk Award in the same category. Further engagements for Machinal (1994) with Fiona Shaw , which brought him the Laurence Olivier Theater Award again in 1994 , and Rat in the Skull (1995) with Tony Doyle and Rufus Sewell took him to the Royal Court Theater in London .

In 1997, parallel to his successful theater career, Daldry signed a three-year contract with the film production company Working Title Films . After the short film Eight (1998), about the life of an eight-year-old soccer fan, he made his debut as a feature film director two years later with the 1980s drama Billy Elliot - I Will Dance (2000). The film adaptation of a screenplay by Lee Hall about a boy (played by Jamie Bell ) from a working-class family in Northern England who discovered ballet for himself was an international success with both critics and audiences. Billy Elliot was honored with the most important British film prize, the BAFTA Award, for the best British production of the year, earned him the directing awards of the London Film Critics Association, the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani , the British Independent Film Award and an Oscar nomination.

After the Broadway production of Via Dolorosa (1999), which it with the British playwright and screenwriters David Hare made known Daldry was of Hollywooder film studio Miramax with the direction in The Hours - from eternity to eternity with Nicole Kidman , Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep entrusted in the leading roles. With his second feature film based on a script by Hare based on the novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham , the Briton was just as successful as on his feature film debut. The Moody woman drama won the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama and brought its leading actress Nicole Kidman in the role of Virginia Woolf the Oscar one. Daldry again received nominations for best director for the BAFTA Award and Golden Globe and was left behind at the 2003 Academy Awards against Roman Polański ( The Pianist ).

In 2008, Bernhard Schlink's bestseller Der Vorleser followed, starring David Kross and Kate Winslet , which was filmed in Berlin and Görlitz , among others . For the drama, Daldry was repeatedly nominated for best director for the Golden Globe and Oscar . In 2011, the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer , in which Tom Hanks , Sandra Bullock and Thomas Horn played the leading roles, followed with Extrem loud & incredibly close . This film received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture .

In 2014, Daldry filmed Andy Mulligan's youth novel Trash , about three street children who live in a garbage dump and are drawn into a corruption scandal when they find a wallet. Trash premiered on October 7, 2014 at the Festival do Rio .

Daldry has been married to the American dancer Lucy Sexton since 2001. The marriage resulted in their daughter Annabel Clare in May 2003. In 2004 he received the Order of the British Empire for his services .

Stephen Daldry was executive producer and director of the London Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies in 2012 .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • For movies
    • Oscar nominations for Best Director in Billy Elliot - I Will Dance , The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity, and The Reader
    • Golden Globe nominations for Best Director in Billy Elliot - I Will Dance , The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity, and The Reader
    • BAFTA Award nominations for Best Director in Billy Elliot - I Will Dance , The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity and The Reader
    • German film award in the category “Best Foreign Film” for The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity
    • Hessian Film Prize - Best international literary adaptation (Prize of the Frankfurt Book Fair ) for extremely loud & incredibly close
  • For theater

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personal data
SURNAME Daldry, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorset , England, UK