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William Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for directing three feature films, In the Bedroom (2001), Little Children (2006), and Tár (2022). He has received three Academy Award nominations.[1]

Todd Field
Field in Deauville Film Festival 2006
Born	William Todd Field (1964-02-24) February 24, 1964 (age 58) Pomona, California, U.S.
Education	Mt. Hood Community College Southern Oregon University (BA) American Film Institute (MFA)
Occupation	Actor film director film producer screenwriter
Years active	1985–present
Spouse	Serena Rathbun ​ (m. 1986)​
Children	4
Awards	National Board of Review Award for Best Director (2001) National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (2001)

Early life

Field was born in Pomona, California, where his family ran a poultry farm.[2] When Field turned two, his family moved to Portland, Oregon, where his father went to work as a salesman, and his mother became a school librarian. At an early age, he became interested in performing sleight-of-hand and later music.[3]

As a child in Portland, Field was a batboy for the Portland Mavericks, a single A independent minor league baseball team owned by Hollywood actor Bing Russell. Kurt Russell, Bing's son and later an actor in his own right, also played for the Portland Mavericks during this time.[4] Field and Maverick pitching coach Rob Nelson created the first batch of Big League Chew in the Field family kitchen. In 1980, Nelson and former New York Yankees all-star Jim Bouton sold the idea to the Wrigley Company. Since that time over 800 million pouches have been sold worldwide.[5][6][7]

Education

A budding jazz musician, at the age of sixteen Field became a member of the Big Band at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon. Headed by Larry McVey, the band had become a proving-ground and regular stop for Stan Kenton and Mel Tormé when they were looking for new players. It was here Field played trombone along with his friend, trumpeter and future Grammy Award Winner Chris Botti. During this same time he also worked as a non-union projectionist at a second-run movie theater. Field graduated with his class from Centennial High School on Portland's east side and briefly attended Southern Oregon State College (now Southern Oregon University) in Ashland on a music scholarship, but left after his freshman year favoring a move to New York to study acting with Robert X. Modica at his renowned Carnegie Hall Studio.[8] Soon after, Field began performing with the Ark Theatre Company as both an actor and musician.[9] He received his Master of Fine Arts from the AFI Conservatory.

Career

Field has worked in varying capacities as an actor, director, producer, composer, and screenwriter,[10] and began making motion pictures after Woody Allen cast him in Radio Days (1987). He went on to work with some of America's greatest filmmakers, including Stanley Kubrick, Victor Nuñez, and Carl Franklin. Franklin and Nuñez, both AFI alumni, encouraged Field to enroll as a Directing Fellow at the AFI, which he did in 1992. Since then, he has received the Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award from the AFI, the Satyajit Ray Award from the British Film Institute, and a Jury Prize from the Sundance Film Festival. His short films have been exhibited at various venues overseas and domestically at the Museum of Modern Art.

In the Bedroom

Field became one of Hollywood's hottest new writer/directors with the release of In the Bedroom, a film based on Andre Dubus's short story "Killings". (Kubrick and Dubus were among Field's mentors; both died right before the production of In the Bedroom.) In the Bedroom was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Tom Wilkinson, his first nomination), Best Actress (Sissy Spacek, her sixth), Supporting Actress (Marisa Tomei, her second), and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was shot in Rockland, Maine, a New England town where Field resides. The house where he, his wife (Serena Rathbun), and their four children live was even used as the setting for one sequence.[11] Rathbun and Spacek did some of the set design and Field handled the camera himself on many of the shots.

In the Bedroom made its debut at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Dennis Lim wrote in the Village Voice:

Todd Field’s debut feature, In the Bedroom, alighted on the snowy peaks of Sundance last January as if from another universe. Here was a small miracle of patience and composure, so starkly removed from everything the festival had come to represent that it seemed almost to herald the overdue coming-of-age of American independent film.[12]

Upon the film's release David Ansen of Newsweek wrote:

Todd Field exhibits a mastery of his craft many filmmakers never acquire in a lifetime. With one film he’s guaranteed his future as a director. He has the magnificent obsession of the natural-born filmmaker[13][14]

Anthony Quinn of The Independent wrote, "Field has pulled off something here I thought no American filmmaker would ever manage again: he makes violence feel genuinely shocking."[15]

For his work on In the Bedroom, Field was named Director of the Year by the National Board of Review, and his script was awarded Best Original Screenplay. The film was named Best Picture of the Year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the New York Film Critics Circle awarded Field Best First Film. In the Bedroom received six American Film Institute Awards, including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, three Golden Globe nominations, and five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress, and two individually for Field as screenwriter and producer. The American Film Institute honored Field with the Franklin Schaffner Alumni Medal.

The February 2020 issue of New York Magazine lists In the Bedroom alongside Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, Dr. Strangelove, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Conversation, Nashville, Taxi Driver, The Elephant Man, Pulp Fiction, There Will Be Blood, and Roma as "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars."[16]

Little Children

Field followed In the Bedroom with Little Children, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, including two for the actors: Kate Winslet (her fifth nomination, and with it a record for the youngest actor to be nominated for five Academy Awards) and Jackie Earle Haley (his first nomination and first leading role in over 15 years). After having written, directed and produced just two feature films, Field had garnered five Academy Award nominations for his actors and three for himself. The film, based on Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name, premiered at the 2006 New York Film Festival. In his roundup "Best of 2006", A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote:

The first time you see Todd Field's adaptation of Tom Perrotta's novel, you may remark on the director's impressive control over the unruly source material and the emotional agility of the cast, Kate Winslet in particular. The second time, the film's lurid, crazy side is more apparent, and the intensity of the supporting performances—Noah Emmerich, Jackie Earle Haley, Phyllis Somerville—creep into the foreground. This movie, Mr. Field's second feature...is a complicated blend of gothic, melodrama and sexual comedy, unerringly attuned to the varieties of human failure.[17]

International Cinephile Society's Matt Mazur called the film "subversive" and designed to disorient the viewer with "seemingly non-connected imagery to suggest a tone and a mood of disquiet." Mazur compared Field's technique with that of Sergei Eisenstein, D. W. Griffith, Georges Méliès, and Edwin S. Porter.[18]

Many members of Field's creative team on In the Bedroom returned to work with him on the film, including Serena Rathbun. In a 2006 interview with The Hollywood Reporter's Anne Thompson, Field said he quit acting and began making his own films after Rathbun told him, "Do what you want to do. Don't get distracted."[19] Later that year, Field spoke extensively about the importance of Rathbun as his creative partner, describing a conversation he had with her where she gave him the most pivotal scene: "for me, the film is unthinkable without it."[20]

2006–2021: Unrealized projects

After Little Children, Field went fifteen years without directing anything, which various film journalists lamented.[21] In his 2015 Ioncinema piece "Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action", Nicholas Bell wrote, "It is definitely time for Field to throw one down the middle. In the meantime, we'll just have to watch In the Bedroom for the umpteenth time."[22]

During that time, Field was attached to a number of film projects, including a film adaptation of the 2009 Boston Teran novel The Creed of Violence, set during the Mexican Revolution, which at different times was set to star Leonardo DiCaprio,[23] Christian Bale[24] and Daniel Craig;[25] a coming-of-age Minor League Baseball story set in the 1970s Northwest;[26][27] an adaptation of the 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel Blood Meridian;[28][29] a political thriller called As It Happens, co-written by Joan Didion;[30] an adaptation of Jess Walter's novel Beautiful Ruins;[31] and a film about U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl.[32]

In 2016, Field worked on a planned television adaptation of the 2015 Jonathan Franzen novel Purity, which was to be a 20-hour limited series for Showtime.[33] The series was to be co-written by Field, Franzen and playwright David Hare. It would have starred Daniel Craig as Andreas Wolf and be executive produced by Field, Franzen, Craig, Hare and Scott Rudin.[34] In 2016 Franzen said on The Diane Rehm Show that he was learning the art of adaptation from Field, whom he considered a "master" of the form.[35] But in a February 2018 interview with The Times, Hare said that, given the budget for the adaptation ($170 million), he doubted it would ever be made. "It was one of the richest and most interesting six weeks of my life, sitting in a room with Todd Field, Jonathan Franzen and Daniel Craig bashing out the story. They're extremely interesting people", Hare added.[36]

Speaking publicly for the first time in 16 years, Field told the New York Times in 2022, "I set my sights in a very particular way on certain material that was probably very tough to get made."[37]

2022: Field's Return

Tár

Field's next project is Tár, which he wrote and directed, and which stars Cate Blanchett as the title character, fictional classical music conductor and composer Lydia Tár. Production began in August 2021. The film is set in Berlin.[38] It premiered in September 2022 at the Venice International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Lion and Queer Lion, with Cate Blanchett winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.[39] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 91 out of 100 based on 43 critics, indicating a Metascore "Must-See" film and "Universal Acclaim" from critics.[40]

Filmography

Actor

Film
Year	Title	Role	Director	Ref.
1986	He Shoots, He Scores	Anders Johansson	Jean-Claude Lord
1987	Radio Days	Crooner	Woody Allen
	The Allnighter	Bellhop	Tamar Simon Hoffs
1988	Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy	Private Anthony Glenn	Carl Franklin
	Back to Back	Todd Brand	John Kincaide
	The End of Innocence	Richard	Dyan Cannon
1989	Fat Man and Little Boy	Robert Rathbun Wilson	Roland Joffe
	Gross Anatomy	David Schreiner	Thom Eberhardt
1990	Full Fathom Five	Johnson	Carl Franklin
1991	Queens Logic	Cecil	Steve Rash
1993	Ruby in Paradise	Mike McCaslin	Victor Nuñez
	357 Marina del Rey	Rake Rowe	Penelope Spheeris
1994	Sleep with Me	Duane	Rory Kelly
1996	Twister	Tim 'Beltzer' Lewis	Jan de Bont
	Walking and Talking	Frank	Nicole Holofcener
1999	Broken Vessels	Jimmy Warzniack	Scott Ziehl
	Eyes Wide Shut	Nick Nightingale	Stanley Kubrick
	The Haunting	Todd Hackett	Jan de Bont
2000	Stranger than Fiction	Austin Walker / Donovan Miller	Eric Bross	[41]
2001	New Port South	Walsh	Kyle Cooper
	Net Worth	Thad Davis	Kenny Griswold
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1986	Lance et compte	Anders Johansson	5 episodes
1987	Gimme a Break!	Eric	2 episodes
1987	Hard Knocks	Chad	Episode: "Captain Justice"
1987	Brothers	Walter	Episode: "Penny and the Hard Hat"
1987	Student Exchange	Neil Barton / Adriano Fabrizzi	Television movie
1987	Take Five	Kevin Davis	6 episodes
1988	Roseanne	Charles	Episode: "D-I-V-O-R-C-E"
1990	Tales from the Crypt	Eugene	Episode: "Judy, You're Not Yourself Today"
1991	Lookwell	Jason	Television movie
1993	Danger Theatre	Ray Monroe	Episode: "Searcher in the Mist/Sex, Lies & Decaf"
1993	Bakersfield P.D.	Lewis	Episode: "The Poker Game"
1995	Chicago Hope	Josh Taubler	Episode: "Heartbreak"
1998	Cupid	Sam	Episode: "Pick-Up Schticks"
1999–2001	Once and Again	David Cassilli	28 episodes
2002–03	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	Ol' Drippy	Voice; 2 episodes

Filmmaker

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
Feature films
2001	In the Bedroom	Yes	Yes	Yes
2006	Little Children	Yes	Yes	Yes
2022	Tár	Yes	Yes	Yes
Short films
1992	Too Romantic	Yes	Yes	No	AFI First Year Cycle Project
1993	When I Was a Boy	Yes	No	No	Co-director with Alex Vlacos & Matthew Modine
	The Dog	Yes	No	No	Co-director with Alex Vlacos
	The Tree	Yes	Yes	No	AFI First Year Cycle Project
	Delivering	Yes	Yes	No	AFI First Year Cycle Project
1995	Nonnie & Alex	Yes	No	No	AFI Second Year Thesis Project

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Project	Result	Ref.
2001	Academy Award	Best Picture	In the Bedroom	Nominated	[42]
		Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
2006			Little Children	Nominated	[43]
2001	AFI Awards	Director of the Year	In the Bedroom	Nominated	[44]
		Screenwriter of the Year		Nominated
2001	British Film Institute	Special Mention		Won
1993	Film Independent Spirit Awards	Best Supporting Male	Ruby in Paradise	Nominated	[45]
2001		Best First Feature	In the Bedroom	Won	[46]
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
2006	Golden Globe Awards	Best Screenplay	Little Children	Nominated	[47]
2006	Gotham Awards	Best Feature		Nominated	[48]
2001	National Board of Review	Best Director	In the Bedroom	Won	[49]
		Best Screenplay		Won
2001	New York Film Critics Circle	Best First Film		Won	[50]
		Best Director		Nominated
1995	Sundance Film Festival	Honorable Mention	Nonnie & Alex	Won
2001		Grand Jury Prize	In the Bedroom	Nominated
2022	Venice International Film Festival	Golden Lion	Tár	Nominated
		Queer Lion		Nominated
2006	Writers Guild of America Award	Best Adapted Screenplay	Little Children	Nominated

References

External links

• Todd Field at IMDb
• Todd Field at the TCM Movie Database
• Todd Field at AllMovie

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Todd Field (* 24. Februar 1964 in Pomona, Kalifornien; eigentlich William Todd Field) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Filmregisseur, Drehbuchautor, Filmproduzent und Filmkomponist.

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[es] Todd Field

Todd Field (Pomona, California; 24 de febrero de 1964) es un actor, guionista y director de cine estadounidense.

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