Damien Shazell Biography

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Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Director of Obsessions and La Land Land Damien Shazell, a figurine and worldwide glory was presented to him by the Musicle “La La Land”, which fired 14 nominations for Oscar and victory in six of them. Earlier, no film received any more ideas for the main film award of the United States. The same number of nominations only had “all about Eve” and “Titanic” tapes and only two paintings managed to deserve it before, but not seven, but six “globes”: in the year - the film masterpiece “Flying over the cuckoo’s nest” and B - “midnight express”.

A relative newcomer in the film industry, by the year Shazell had already earned about $ 65 million. Childhood and family, the future triumph director, was born on January 19 in the capital of Rhinod Island-Providen. His father Bernard is a professor of mathematics of Princeton University, a Frenchman by nationality, and clamar. Mom is a historian, a specialist in the Middle Ages and a writer of American-Canadian origin.

She was born in California, in the family of Canadian from Kalgary and a native of Beverly Hills, the son of English professor John Syr Martin, who worked for Paramount Pictures for a long time in London, and theater actress Eilin Earl. In the photo: Damien Shazella’s parents noted a jokingly film director, he grew up in a kind of atmosphere, uniting quite different scientific research and interests.

He and his sister Anna, the future actress and a circus artist, often found herself witnesses of parental discussions on very unusual and original topics. From his sister, from an early age, according to him, from the age of three, he wanted to make films - he constantly watched them and composed his own plots. Parents did not interfere with his hobby, although often they forced to walk on the street more.

Damien Shazell about the beginning of his career, his dad was a perennial and devoted fan of jazz, and at the Damien school, with his presentation, he began to play on drums. He liked the mythology of jazz, as well as the fact that his basic element - improvisation - requires the highest level of skill. Trying to achieve it, he practiced on percussion instruments literally to bloody corns in his arms.

However, according to the director, he still did not feel that he could become a great musician. In childhood, Damien Shazell himself studied the music by the young man, the idea was carried away by the idea to use film production to achieve an emotional effect - a combination of images and music, similar to how musicians with the help of sounds affect listeners. As a result, he received higher education at Harvard with a degree in visual and environmental research, becoming a certified specialist in the year.

Career development. The first tape of the summer director, the musical, “Guy and Madlin on the park in the park”, told the story of the story about two lovers who, after parting, could not forget each other. In production, he also acted as a screenwriter, producer, operator, editor, and even the author of words to the musical compositions of his friend Justin Gurvits, with whom he once played together in a student musical team.

The main character, of course, is a jazz musician. Damien's father embodied on the screen of a French singer, and his sister was one of the young heroines. Thanks to brilliant musical design, a simple plot of the picture acquired an amazingly exciting and inspiring content. Damien Shazella's first film was musical and black and white in the year, the novice director became the co-author of the horror script “The Last Exile of the Devil: The Second Coming” and the independent screenwriter of the thriller “Solemn final”, where he presented the action-packed story that happened at the first concert of the pianist, barely recovering the scene.

In a musical score, he found a note with the threat of the murder of his wife if he stops playing or mistaken in a note. In the year, as a director and screenwriter, based on his own short film, “whip without gingerbread”, he released the musical drama “Obsession” with Miles Teler and J. Simmons in the main roles. The plot was built on the relationship of the gifted drummer Andrew and his frantic, cruel and despotistical teacher of Fletcher, whose image was inspired by a real character from Damien’s musical youth.

Filming “Obsession” by the premiere of the short version of the film in the year opened the Festival of Independent Cinema Sandance, where she won the main prize. In March, Damien Shazella in March, the screens of Kloverfield 10, was released two years earlier, was released in March, the co -author of the script of which was Damien. The personal life of Damien Shazella Shazell is married to a second marriage.

He met the ex-spray jasmine McGlade in his student years. In the year they got married, and after 4 years they parted, but remained friends and business partners. In particular, she entered among the producers of La La Lada. Jasmine McGlade, the first wife of Damien Shazella in the year, the young man met his new chosen one, actress and entrepreneur Olivia Hamilton. She, a graduate of Princeton University, has a diploma in economics and finance.In the photo: Damien Shazell and Olivia Hamilton when his film was noted in 14 nominations for Oscar, she was the first to delight him with this news, sending an SMS message to Beijing, where he was a promotion of the picture.

The young man did not even immediately believe his beloved, thought she was joking. But he ran to the room to the main role of Ryan Gosling, who played in his tape, with whom they later simply shouted from the joy that overwhelmed them. Damien Shazell and his first “Oscar” for directing among his favorite films and scenes are “Sherburg Umbrellas”, dance number for the composition “Cheek to Cheek” “cheek to the cheek” with Fred Aster and Ginger Rogers in the Musical Comedy “Cylinder”, the end of the Bolshoi City Fires Chaplin, the soundtrack “As Time Goes by” “Over time” to the film “Casablanca” Damien Shazell, now the top of the creative search for young talent has become the third full-length film “La La Land” released in the year.

The premiere show of the picture took place at the Venice Film Festival. The main roles in the musical, telling about the pianist, a fan of jazz and the beginning actress, were performed by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Damien Shazell and the stars of La Land Landa Shazell loved musicals since childhood. He was literally obsessed with the legendary dancer Fred Aster and his partner, who became the symbol of the genre Ginger Rogers, “King of the Hollywood musicals” Stanley Donen and Vincent Minelli.

But the classic musical interested him only because he wanted to give him avant -garde, innovative forms, and created, according to experts, a completely new genre look. In his interpretation, the main thing was not vocal and choreography, but the opportunity to express and convey with their help very important things - the call to serve your art and follow the dream. Interview by Damien Shazella: The director about La La Lande is noteworthy that he painted a literary and dramatic basis for setting the picture, but could not find an investor, since he did not agree to make edits in the script.

And only after the success of the “obsession”, the Summit Entertainment film studio decided to provide funding for the filming of La La Lada. The “La Land” is connected with an awkward situation that arose at the ceremony of presenting the awards of the film Academy-it was mistakenly declared the winner in the “Best Film” category. The oversight was discovered and voiced by the organizers only when the representatives of the musical were already in vain, in vain, already performed on the stage with a thanksgiving speech.

And the main prize of the ceremony went to the film "Moonlight" Barry Jenkins. Damien Shazell and Ryan Gusling, on the set of La La Land, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, in the year the Oscar-winning director intends to engage in a television project-the musical drama of Eddie. Its action will take place in the capital of France, where events turn around around the home orchestra, club, its owner and a beautiful, but troubled city.

Jack Thorne, who wrote in collaboration with Joan Rowling, the play “Harry Potter and the Damned Child” was declared the television screenwriter. Shazell wants to make a film about Nile Armstrong also knows that the director, together with Ryan Gosling, intends to shoot the biographical picture “First Man” dedicated to the first astronaut on the Moon Nile Armstrong. The premiere was scheduled for October 12.

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