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Damien Sayre Chazelle (/ʃəˈzɛl/; born January 19, 1985)[2] is a French-American film director, screenwriter and producer.[3] He is known for his films Whiplash (2014), La La Land (2016), and First Man (2018). Chazelle's breakout Whiplash began as a proof-of-concept short film, which debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and eventually attracted attention from financiers who helped to finance the full-length version. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival as the opening film where it won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic and went on to receive five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, winning three with Chazelle himself nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Damien Chazelle
Chazelle at the 2014 Deauville American Film Festival
Born	Damien Sayre Chazelle [1] (1985-01-19) January 19, 1985 (age 37) Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Citizenship	France United States
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation	Film director screenwriter producer
Years active	2008–present
Spouses	Jasmine McGlade ​ ​ (m. 2010; div. 2014)​ Olivia Hamilton ​ (m. 2018)​
Children	1
Parent(s)	Bernard Chazelle Celia Chazelle
Awards	Full list
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Soon after, he was finally able to make his dream project, La La Land, which was nominated for fourteen Academy Awards, winning six including Best Director, making him the youngest person to win the award at age 32.[4][5] His films have received critical and commercial success. Aside from filmmaking, Chazelle has ventured into television with The Eddy, an eight-episode Netflix miniseries set in Paris. Chazelle's next film, Babylon, is set in 1920s Hollywood and will be given a wide release by Paramount Pictures on December 23, 2022.

Early life and education

Chazelle was born in Providence, Rhode Island[2] to a Catholic family.[6][7] His father who is French, Bernard Chazelle, is the Eugene Higgins Professor of computer science at Princeton University, and was born in Clamart, France.[8] His mother, Celia,[9] is from an English-Canadian family based in Calgary, Alberta, and teaches medieval history at The College of New Jersey.[10]

Chazelle was raised in Princeton, New Jersey, where, although a Catholic, he attended a Hebrew school for four years due to his parents' dissatisfaction with other local schools.[7] Chazelle has a sister, Anna, who is an actress.[9] Their English-born maternal grandfather, John Martin, is the son of stage actress Eileen Earle.[9]

Filmmaking was Chazelle's first love, but he subsequently wanted to be a musician and struggled to make it as a jazz drummer at Princeton High School. He has said that he had an intense music teacher in the Princeton High School Studio Band, who was the inspiration for the character of Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) in Chazelle's breakout film Whiplash. Unlike the film's protagonist Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), Chazelle stated that he knew instinctively that he never had the talent to be a great drummer and after high school, pursued filmmaking again.[11] He studied filmmaking in the Visual and Environmental Studies department at Harvard University and graduated in 2007.[12][13]

At Harvard, he lived in Currier House as roommates with composer and frequent collaborator Justin Hurwitz.[14] The two were among the original members of the indie-pop group Chester French, formed during their freshman year.[15]

Career

Early work and career beginnings

Chazelle wrote and directed his debut feature, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, as part of his senior thesis project with classmate Justin Hurwitz at Harvard.[16] The film premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2009 and received various awards on the festival circuit, before being picked up by Variance Films for limited release and opening to critical acclaim.[17]

After graduation, Chazelle moved to Los Angeles with the ultimate goal of attracting interest to produce his musical La La Land.[18] Chazelle worked as a "writer-for-hire" in Hollywood; among his writing credits are The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) and Grand Piano (2013). He was also brought in by J. J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions to re-write a draft of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) with the intention of also directing, but Chazelle ultimately chose to direct Whiplash instead.[19]

Breakthrough and success

Chazelle initially described Whiplash as a writing reaction to being stuck on another script: "I just thought, that's not working, let me put it away and write this thing about being a jazz drummer in high school." He stated he initially did not want to show the script around, as it felt too personal, and "I put it in a drawer".[11] Although nobody was initially interested in producing the film,[20] his script was featured on Black List in 2012 as one of the best unmade films of that year. The project was eventually picked up by Right of Way Films and Blumhouse Productions, who suggested that Chazelle turn a portion of his script into a short film as proof-of-concept. The 18-minute short was accepted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it was well-received;[21] financing was then raised for the feature film, and, in 2014, it was released to an overwhelmingly positive critical reaction.[22] Whiplash received numerous awards on the festival circuit[23][24] and earned five Oscar nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay for Chazelle, winning three.[25]

Thanks to the success of Whiplash, Chazelle was able to attract financiers for his musical La La Land.[18] The film opened the Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2016, and began a limited release in the United States on December 9, 2016, with a wider release on December 16, 2016.[26][27] It has received rave reviews from critics and numerous awards.[28] Chazelle was particularly praised for his work on the film and received several top honors, including a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Director, making Chazelle the youngest director to win each award, at age 32.[5]

Chazelle next reunited with Gosling on the film First Man (2018), for Universal Pictures. With a screenplay by Josh Singer, the biopic is based on author James R. Hansen's First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, written about the astronaut.[29][30] The film received positive reviews,[31] with Owen Gleiberman of Variety writing that "Chazelle orchestrates a dashingly original mood of adventure drenched in anxiety".[32]

Chazelle directed the first two episodes of the May 2020-released Netflix musical drama television miniseries The Eddy.[33][34] The series is written by Jack Thorne, with Grammy-winning songwriter Glen Ballard and Alan Poul attached as executive producers. The series is set in Paris and consists of eight episodes.

Upcoming projects

On July 15, 2019, Variety reported that his next film, called Babylon, set in 1920s Hollywood, was scheduled to be released in 2021. Chazelle was eyeing Emma Stone to star;[35] Brad Pitt has also been rumored to have a role.[36] On November 11, 2019, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Babylon would have a limited release on December 25, 2022, before expanding into wide release on January 6, 2023.[37] On December 3, 2020, it was reported that Li Jun Li was cast as Anna May Wong and that Margot Robbie was in talks to replace Stone.[38] In 2018 it was reported that Apple TV+ had given the director a direct-to-series order for an untitled drama series to be made for the streaming service, but no other information has been released yet.[39]

Personal life

Chazelle married producer Jasmine McGlade in 2010; they divorced in 2014.[40][41] In October 2017, Chazelle and actress Olivia Hamilton, a Princeton University graduate and former McKinsey & Company consultant, announced their engagement,[41][42] and the couple married September 22, 2018.[43] They have a son who was born in November 2019.[44]

Due to his French heritage, Chazelle is fluent in French.[45][46]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2009	Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also cinematographer and co-editor
2013	The Last Exorcism Part II	No	Yes	No
	Grand Piano	No	Yes	No
2014	Whiplash	Yes	Yes	No
2016	10 Cloverfield Lane	No	Yes	No
	La La Land	Yes	Yes	No
2018	First Man	Yes	No	Yes
2022	Babylon	Yes	Yes	No	Post-production

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Writer
2013	Whiplash	Yes	Yes
2020	The Stunt Double[47]	Yes	No

Television

Year	Title	Director	Executive Producer	Notes
2020	The Eddy	Yes	Yes	2 episodes

Accolades

Year	Title	Academy Awards		BAFTA Awards		Golden Globe Awards
		Nominations	Wins	Nominations	Wins	Nominations	Wins
2014	Whiplash	5	3	5	3	1	1
2016	La La Land	14	6	11	5	7	7
2018	First Man	4	1	7		2	1
Total		23	10	23	8	10	9

Directed Academy Award performances

Chazelle has directed multiple Oscar-winning and nominated performances.

Year	Performer	Film	Result
Academy Award for Best Actor
2016	Ryan Gosling	La La Land	Nominated
Academy Award for Best Actress
2016	Emma Stone	La La Land	Won
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
2014	J. K. Simmons	Whiplash	Won

See also

• List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees – Youngest winners for Best Director
• dearMoon project

References

External links

• Damien Chazelle at IMDb

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[de] Damien Chazelle

Damien Sayre Chazelle (* 19. Januar 1985 in Providence, Rhode Island) ist ein amerikanisch-französischer[1] Drehbuchautor und Filmregisseur. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem ab Ende der 2000er-Jahre durch vom Jazz inspirierte Musikfilme. Für den Musicalfilm La La Land (2016) gewann er zwei Golden Globe Awards in den Kategorien Regie und Drehbuch sowie den Oscar in der Kategorie Beste Regie.

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[es] Damien Chazelle

Damien Sayre Chazelle (Providence, Rhode Island, 19 de enero de 1985) es un director, guionista y productor de cine estadounidense y francés. Dirigió y escribió Whiplash y La La Land, estrenadas en 2014 y 2016, así como First Man en 2018. Whiplash obtuvo tres premios Óscar entre cinco nominaciones, y La La Land recibió siete Globos de Oro, el mayor número otorgado a una película desde la creación del certamen, así como seis premios Óscar entre 14 nominaciones.[2][3]

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[ru] Шазелл, Дэмьен

Дэмьен Шазе́лл, или Дэмиен Шазе́ль[5] (англ. Damien Chazelle; род. 19 января 1985, Провиденс, штат Род-Айленд, США), — американский независимый кинорежиссёр и сценарист[6], более всего известный благодаря фильмам «Одержимость» и «Ла-Ла Ленд», за последний из которых стал лауреатом «Оскара» за лучшую режиссуру (самый молодой лауреат в этой номинации за всю историю премии).

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