Curtis Hanson
Curtis Lee Hanson ( born March 24, 1945 in Reno, Nevada ) is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
Curtis Hanson dropped out of high school early. As a photographer and writer, he grew into the film business.
Curtis Hanson, a lifelong big movie buff, has worked as a teenager as an editor and critic for a film magazine. Especially has influenced him Alfred Hitchcock, accordingly, many of Hanson's movies thriller. His biggest success LA Confidential, however, shows that Hanson sees itself not only on voltage, but also to the production of complex characters at crucial stages of life.
Hanson worked as a screenwriter for veterans like Roger Corman and Samuel Fuller and as a director on several horror films and thrillers with a small budget, which gradually known made him ( including Todfreunde - Bad Influence, in which he Hitchcock on to Strangers on a train ( Strangers a Train) to model took ).
Hanson's first major success was the thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ) and The River Wild ( The River Wild ), with Meryl Streep in her first action movie role. Hanson's biggest success so far was LA Confidential ( 1997), a film about police corruption in the context of Hollywood in the 1950s on a novel by James Ellroy. The film was an overwhelming critical success. Hanson got besides a number of other high awards the Oscar for best screenplay and nominations for best producer and director.
Also, Hanson's next film The Wonder Boys (2002), starring Michael Douglas in an unusually unglamorous role as verluderter literature professor, was a critical success. The video for Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan, the Oscar-winning title song of the film, Hanson turned itself.
8 Mile (2002), Hanson's film adaptation of the life story of rap superstars Eminem with the singer in the lead role was a box office hit and confirmed Hanson's reputation as one of the most prolific directors in Hollywood today.
Hanson, who calls himself " rather than film lovers film maker" has worked as chairman of the UCLA Film & Television Archives actively involved in the preservation of old films.
Filmography
- 2002: adaptation. ( Adaptation. )