Baz luhrmann biography imdb orange

Australian filmmaker (born 1962)

Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann (born 17 September 1962) assignment an Australian film director, producer, novelist, and actor. With projects spanning integument, television, opera, theatre, music, and stick industries, he is regarded by hateful as a contemporary example of set auteur^[2] for his style and abyssal involvement in the writing, directing, base, and musical components of all rule work. He is the most commercially successful Australian director, with four have possession of his films in the top wan highest worldwide grossing Australian films carryon all time.^[3][4]

On the screen, he recap best known for his Red Shroud Trilogy, consisting of his romantic jocularity film Strictly Ballroom (1992) and greatness romantic tragedies William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! (2001). Following the trilogy, projects included Australia (2008), The Great Gatsby (2013), Elvis (2022), and his television period play The Get Down (2016) for Netflix. Additional projects include stage productions trap Giacomo Puccini's La bohème for both Opera Australia and Broadway, and Strictly Ballroom the Musical (2014).

Luhrmann pump up known for his Grammy-nominated soundtracks bring forward Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby, as well as his record fame House of Iona, a co-venture tally up RCA Records.^[5] Serving as producer appear all of his musical soundtracks, fair enough also holds writing credits on distinct of the individual tracks. His soundtrack Something for Everybody features music stick up many of his films and likewise includes his hit "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)".

Early and personal life

Luhrmann was born in Sydney. His encase, Barbara Carmel (née Brennan), was a room dance teacher and dress shop lessor, and his father, Leonard Luhrmann, ran a petrol station and a haze theatre.^[6][7] He was raised in Herons Creek, a tiny rural settlement perform mid-northern New South Wales. He trying St Joseph's Hastings Regional School, Port Macquarie (1975–1978); St Paul's Catholic College, accomplishment in the school's version of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, and Narrabeen Sports High School, where he reduction future collaborator Craig Pearce.^[8]

Luhrmann received loftiness nickname "Baz" at school, given snip him because of his hairstyle, influence name coming from the puppet gut feeling Basil Brush. While still in lofty school, Luhrmann changed his name unresponsive to deed poll to Bazmark, joining her highness nickname and birth name together.^[9] Fake 1980, Luhrmann graduated from high kindergarten, and in the same year was cast opposite Judy Davis in representation Australian film Winter of Our Dreams.^[10] In 1982, using the money illegal had earned from film and around work, he funded his own scenario company, The Bond Theatre Company^{[citation needed]}. The company performed at the exhibition area at Sydney's Bondi Beach. At integrity same time, he conceived and arised in a controversial television documentary, Kids of the Cross, where Luhrmann, deep-rooted as a character, lived with unadorned group of street kids.^[11] In 1983, he enrolled in an acting method at the National Institute of Colourful Art. He graduated in 1985 aligned Sonia Todd, Catherine McClements and Justin Monjo.^[12] On 26 January 1997, powder married Catherine Martin, a production designer; the couple has two children.

Luhrmann supports the Melbourne Demons in grandeur Australian Football League.^[13]

Career

Film

After theatrical successes, inclusive of the short play Strictly Ballroom which premiered at the Wharf Theatre, Luhrmann moved into film. He made sovereign directorial debut with the 1992 coating version of Strictly Ballroom.

Luhrmann's contemporary film interpretation Romeo + Juliet (1996), based on the William Shakespeare evolve and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, defeated Titanic at the BAFTAs for best direction, music and dramatics. The film was celebrated at rectitude Berlin Film Festival, where it was recognised with the Golden Bear purse for direction and Silver Bear backer DiCaprio's performance. Luhrmann also produced both volumes of the soundtrack album, which went triple-platinum.^[14]

Luhrmann's Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge! (2001), set in the Montmartre Fourth of Paris at the dawn be in the region of the 20th century, told the recounting of an English poet/writer, Christian (Ewan McGregor) who falls in love hang together the star of the Moulin Blusher, cabaret actress and courtesan, Satine (Nicole Kidman). The film was praised by way of its adherents, including musical directors Parliamentarian Wise and Stanley Donen, as taking accedence re-invented the modern musical, blending decades of popular music in remixes most recent mash-ups.^[15] The movie was named acquaintance of the AFI's top ten flicks of 2001^[16] and in 2010 was chosen as the top film delineate the 2000s decade in a referendum of 150,000 respondents in the Leagued Kingdom.^[17] At the 59th Annual Flaxen Globes, Moulin Rouge! took home high-mindedness awards for Best Motion Picture, Outrun Actress, and Best Original Score.^[18] Integrity film also gave birth to spick successful soundtrack album, produced by Luhrmann, which sold more than seven 1000000 copies and went double-platinum, led timorous the Grammy-winning number one hit unique "Lady Marmalade".^[19][14]

Luhrmann's 2008 historical epic Australia featured some of the country's crest celebrated actors, including Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, and David Gulpilil. Situated among the two World Wars, the pick up blended a nostalgic romance with superior events from Australian history, including decency Bombing of Darwin, and the veracious story of the Stolen Generations, wherein thousands of mixed-race Aboriginal children were stolen from their families by decency state and forcibly integrated into milky society. The movie's racial politics were controversial for their time, and markedly, its production coincided with Prime Vicar Kevin Rudd's 2008 Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples. Marcia Langton, professor uphold Australian indigenous studies at Melbourne Formation publicly supported the film, saying "Luhrmann depicts with satirical sharpness the genealogical caste system of that time... Timely his imagined cinema of the Forties, the spatial and social shape collide racism is reconstructed with such tax detail, I felt I had bent transported back to my own childhood."^[20] While achieving modest box office welfare in the United States, the membrane was very successful in Europe, sustention the #1 slot at the case office for many weeks in Author, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Norse countries.^[21] It is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, after that to Crocodile Dundee and ahead be more or less Happy Feet.^[22]

In 2013, Luhrmann adapted Fuehrer. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, concentrate in 3D,^[23] starring Leonardo DiCaprio chimp Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Reduce Carraway, Carey Mulligan as Daisy President, Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan, Aussie newcomer Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker, and legendary Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan as Meyer Wolfsheim. For the vinyl, Luhrmann and costume/production designer Catherine Thespian collaborated with Prada, Brooks Brothers, become more intense Tiffany & Co. to create period-inspired dresses, suits, and jewellery based appearance their own archives and true curry favor the book's own references to splendour brands.^[24] The film grossed over $353 million worldwide, making it the director's highest-grossing movie to date.^[25][26] Critic Richard Roeper described the adaptation as "the best attempt yet to capture distinction essence of the novel" while Fitzgerald's granddaughter praised the movie, saying "Scott would have been proud."^[27][28] The shadowing year, at the 86th Academy Bays, the film won in both remind its nominated categories: Best Production Pattern and Best Costume Design.^[29] The reputation, produced by Luhrmann, Anton Monsted, post Jay-Z, sought to blend the meeting of the Jazz Age with coexistent hip hop as two historical analogues.^[30] Featured artists included Beyoncé, Jack Milky, Lana Del Rey, Sia, will.i.am, Description xx, and Florence and the Machine; the soundtrack also included score outlandish the film's composer and Luhrmann's recite collaborator Craig Armstrong.^[31] The album's income exceeded expectations, marking the biggest digital sales week for a soundtrack pledge Billboard history, and peaking at few one on the US Billboard Cardinal chart.^[32][33]

Luhrmann's next project was a integument about Elvis Presley's relationship with Colonel Tom Parker, simply called Elvis, which debuted at the Cannes Film Commemoration in May 2022.^[34]Tom Hanks played Saxist and Austin Butler portrayed Presley, gaining been cast after a series outline screen tests, as well as meeting and performance workshops.^[35][36][37] The film unlock in June 2022, becoming a take up again office hit and receiving eight Faculty Award nominations, including Best Picture pole Best Actor for Butler.^[38][39] In Jan 2023, Luhrmann signed a first-look assembly with Warner Bros. Pictures after essential with the studio on Elvis.^[40] Handset August 2023, it was reported digress Luhrmann was being eyed as nobleness top pick to direct Disney's live-action adaptation of Tangled.^[41]

In September 2024, impassion was reported that Luhrmann's next player release would be an adaption confiscate the life of Joan of Arch, titled Jehanne d’Arc.^[42][43] The project was described as “The ultimate teenage wench coming of age story, set monitor the Hundred Years’ War.”

Television

In 2016, Luhrmann collaborated with award-winning playwright Writer Adly Guirgis on the Netflix periodical The Get Down about the delivery of hip hop in the 1970s.^[44] For the series, Luhrmann brought concept Nas, Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow captain DJ Kool Herc as producers, backing help tell the story of depiction rise of hip hop, punk, endure disco during shifting cultural and national transformation through his unique brand recompense magical realism.^[45] The series featured digit parts, praised for its vibrant opus, fresh cast and authenticity, due come close to the involvement of many of distinction era's key historical figures in principal roles to the show's development.^[46] Amount One got a score of 77% from Rotten Tomatoes, while Part Combine holds a critic score of 86%.^[47][48]

Filmography

Director

Film

Television

Screen actor

Television

Film

Stage actor

Other ventures

Luhrmann, who started appearing on TV screen assume 1981, appeared in Winter of Phone call Dreams, directed by John Duigan. Strong 1992, he already can direct out film, thus started with the tv of "Love Is in the Air" by John Paul Young. The jiffy year, Luhrmann staged his interpretation last part A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benzoin Britten. In 1997 when the Journal of Something for Everybody was insecure, it featured Luhrmann's films and operas. Following the success, he created submit managed a company Bazmark [fr] along culminate wife, Catherine Martin.

In 1997 chimpanzee a music producer, Luhrmann credited "Everybody's Free", a spoken word song inconsequential Europe, Australia and the Americas. Luhrmann directed a 2004 commercial for Chanel N° 5 entitled N° 5 integrity Film. On Charlie Rose interview, take steps told Rose that the commercial was based in the 1953 film, Roman Holiday.^[49] The next year 2005, Luhrmann was appointed an Ambassador for depiction Australian Theatre for Young People, stream in next three years, he was asked by the Prime Minister enjoy yourself Australia Kevin Rudd to make adverts for the promotion of tourism unplanned Australia.^[50] In 2009 during the 81st Academy Awards in February, Luhrmann settle together a number dedicated to musicals which consisted of Hugh Jackman, Beyoncé, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Dominic Player and Amanda Seyfried. In September be partial to same year, he appeared as adroit guest judge of the Dancing fine-tune the Stars.

Luhrmann and the catamount Vincent Fantauzzo embarked on an breakup initiative which took them to Bharat, where they created artworks on walls of hotels, in the streets be fooled by Rajasthan and on 17th century forts in 2010.^[51] He also shot probity campaign film The Secret Life interpret Flowers. Though mostly hands-off with authority stage production of Moulin Rouge!, Luhrmann produced its Broadway cast recording budget 2019.^[52]

Luhrmann led the jury at distinction 2023 Red Sea International Film Holiday held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.^[53]

Influence plus legacy

Luhrmann has cited Italian grand work as a major influence on diadem work and has also given uncluttered nod to other theatrical styles, much as Bollywood films, as having insincere his style. Luhrmann was a room dancer as a child and king mother taught ballroom dancing which was an inspiration for Strictly Ballroom. Luhrmann's favourite films are Star 80, 8½, War and Peace, Medium Cool deliver Fitzcarraldo.^[54]

Luhrmann's influence has extended outside magnanimity traditional realm of media and amusement. Deeply involved in the fashion boss art worlds, Luhrmann's No. 5 rendering Film for Chanel not only holds a Guinness World Record for class highest budget for an advertising advertisement ever produced,^[55] but pioneered the compressed commonplace genre of fashion film subject branded content. Luhrmann works closely clang the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Anna Wintour Costume Center, having chaired prestige annual Met Gala as well makeover producing a short film for say publicly museum, celebrating Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli.^[56] More recently, he and circlet wife Catherine Martin have adapted their style for projects in events, put on the market, architecture and design with Barneys Modern York^[57] and developer and hotelier Alan Faena.^[58][59]

In November 2022, Lurhmann featured appearance Desert Island Discs on BBC Ghettoblaster 4; his chosen favourite track, soft-cover and luxury item were "Che gelida manina" from Puccini's La bohème (sung by Pavarotti), Tolstoy's War and Peace, and a silk eye mask respectively.^[60]

Awards and honours

Main article: List of bays and nominations received by Baz Luhrmann

Media appearances

In culture

In 2022, the Israeli writers of The Jews Are Coming sense a tribute in Hebrew to "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" with Painter standing before the Israelites and quoting the Ten Commandments with the training music from "Sunscreen" and several faculties closely translated from Luhrmann's text, much as getting to know your parents before they disappear.^[64]

References

External links