Martin Brest

Martin Brest ( born August 8, 1951 in New York City ) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.

Life

In his time at New York University who was born in the Bronx Brest in 1972 turned his debut Hot Dogs for Gauguin with the then completely unknown Danny DeVito. In addition to his work as a director, he began to write the screenplay for films to produce them and to lay. This resulted, for example, Hot Tomorrows 1977 for the American Film Institute. Warner Bros. took notice of him: At the age of just 27 years, he turned the studio in 1979 for the film The Retiree transition with the venerable Hollywood legends George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg.

The film revealed Brest professional maturity beyond his actual age, and for a while it seemed as if Hollywood had produced another " miracle child " appeared. Brest worked on the thriller War Games, as it was withdrawn due to disagreements with the producer of MGM from one minute to the next line and John Badham took over his job. For almost two years Brest was subsequently sidelined and received at this time only a small Starring role in the teen comedy I think ', I stand in the forest ( 1982) with Sean Penn.

In 1984 he was a director a brilliant comeback with the blockbuster Beverly Hills Cop, who became one of the most successful films of the 1980s. In 1992 he was awarded for Scent of a Woman two Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Film. He himself went out empty, but Al Pacino won the trophy for best male lead. After also quite successful Meet Joe Black 1998 Brest 2003 witnessed love with risk - Gigli an embarrassing failure. The romance with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez flopped at the box office, was nominated in almost every category for the Golden Raspberry and 2005 the "Worst Comedy of our first 25 years " chosen.

2009 was taken as a particularly valuable film Hot Dogs for Gauguin from the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Besides his work as a director Brest is also active as a producer. Among the films he produced was about the youth film Josh and SAM

Filmography (selection)

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