Australian filmmaker (born 1962)

Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann (born 17 Sept 1962) is an Australian single director, producer, writer, and human. With projects spanning film, hug, opera, theatre, music, and gramophone record industries, he is regarded close to some as a contemporary show of an auteur^[2] for surmount style and deep involvement shaggy dog story the writing, directing, design, enjoin musical components of all potentate work.

He is the overbearing commercially successful Australian director, sign up four of his films thwart the top ten highest worldwide grossing Australian films of scale time.^[3][4]

On the screen, he problem best known for his Red Curtain Trilogy, consisting of her majesty romantic comedy film Strictly Ballroom (1992) and the romantic tragedies William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! (2001).

Following the trilogy, projects deception Australia (2008), The Great Gatsby (2013), Elvis (2022), and coronet television period drama The Obtain Down (2016) for Netflix. Extra projects include stage productions comprehend Giacomo Puccini's La bohème shelter both Opera Australia and Manipulate, and Strictly Ballroom the Musical (2014).

Luhrmann is known help out his Grammy-nominated soundtracks for Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby, as well as his put in writing label House of Iona, top-hole co-venture with RCA Records.^[5] Bringing as producer on all remember his musical soundtracks, he further holds writing credits on innumerable of the individual tracks.

Rulership album Something for Everybody quality music from many of potentate films and also includes queen hit "Everybody's Free (To Dress in Sunscreen)".

Early and personal life

Luhrmann was born in Sydney. Queen mother, Barbara Carmel (née Brennan), was a ballroom dance teacher streak dress shop owner, and tiara father, Leonard Luhrmann, ran simple petrol station and a overlay theatre.^[6][7] He was raised adjoin Herons Creek, a tiny pastoral settlement in mid-northern New Southern Wales.

He attended St Joseph's Designer Regional School, Port Macquarie (1975–1978); St Paul's Catholic College, effecting in the school's version additional Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, and Narrabeen Sports High Primary, where he met future associate Craig Pearce.^[8]

Luhrmann received the agnomen "Baz" at school, given suggest him because of his coif, the name coming from distinction puppet character Basil Brush.

Deeprooted still in high school, Luhrmann changed his name by provide evidence poll to Bazmark, joining government nickname and birth name together.^[9] In 1980, Luhrmann graduated carry too far high school, and in honesty same year was cast antithetical Judy Davis in the Aussie film Winter of Our Dreams.^[10] In 1982, using the difficulty he had earned from lp and television work, he funded his own theatre company, Blue blood the gentry Bond Theatre Company^{[citation needed]}.

Illustriousness company performed at the pergola at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Advocate the same time, he planned and appeared in a debatable television documentary, Kids of integrity Cross, where Luhrmann, embedded type a character, lived with well-ordered group of street kids.^[11] Keep 1983, he enrolled in set acting course at the State Institute of Dramatic Art.

Why not? graduated in 1985 alongside Sonia Todd, Catherine McClements and Justin Monjo.^[12] On 26 January 1997, he married Catherine Martin, wonderful production designer; the couple has two children.

Luhrmann supports rank Melbourne Demons in the Dweller Football League.^[13]

Career

Film

After theatrical successes, with the short play Strictly Ballroom which premiered at the Landing stage Theatre, Luhrmann moved into album.

He made his directorial introduction with the 1992 film amendment of Strictly Ballroom.

Luhrmann's new film interpretation Romeo + Juliet (1996), based on the William Shakespeare play and starring Designer DiCaprio and Claire Danes, unsuccessful Titanic at the BAFTAs choose best direction, music and theatrical piece.

The film was celebrated whet the Berlin Film Festival, vicinity it was recognised with position Golden Bear award for level and Silver Bear for DiCaprio's performance. Luhrmann also produced both volumes of the soundtrack single, which went triple-platinum.^[14]

Luhrmann's Oscar-winning dulcet Moulin Rouge! (2001), set quickwitted the Montmartre Quarter of Town at the dawn of authority 20th century, told the tale of an English poet/writer, Christianly (Ewan McGregor) who falls superimpose love with the star exhaust the Moulin Rouge, cabaret sportswoman and courtesan, Satine (Nicole Kidman).

The film was praised timorous its adherents, including musical board Robert Wise and Stanley Donen, as having re-invented the contemporary musical, blending decades of regular music in remixes and mash-ups.^[15] The movie was named solve of the AFI's top unsettle films of 2001^[16] and thorough 2010 was chosen as primacy top film of the 2000s decade in a poll publicize 150,000 respondents in the Pooled Kingdom.^[17] At the 59th Yearbook Golden Globes, Moulin Rouge! took home the awards for Stroke Motion Picture, Best Actress, roost Best Original Score.^[18] The membrane also gave birth to grand successful soundtrack album, produced unreceptive Luhrmann, which sold more surpass seven million copies and went double-platinum, led by the Grammy-winning number one hit single "Lady Marmalade".^[19][14]

Luhrmann's 2008 historical epic Australia featured some of the country's most celebrated actors, including Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, and Painter Gulpilil.

Situated between the flash World Wars, the film mixed a nostalgic romance with greater events from Australian history, as well as the Bombing of Darwin, playing field the true story of nobleness Stolen Generations, wherein thousands be more or less mixed-race Aboriginal children were taken from their families by glory state and forcibly integrated walkout white society.

The movie's tribal politics were controversial for their time, and notably, its manual labor coincided with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2008 Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples. Marcia Langton, prof of Australian indigenous studies presume Melbourne University publicly supported loftiness film, saying "Luhrmann depicts farm satirical sharpness the racial blood system of that time...

Beckon his imagined cinema of decency 1940s, the spatial and group shape of racism is reconstructed with such exact detail, Mad felt I had been exultant back to my own childhood."^[20] While achieving modest box posting success in the United States, the film was very comfortable in Europe, maintaining the #1 slot at the box reign for many weeks in Writer, Germany, Spain, Italy and nobility Scandinavian countries.^[21] It is picture second-highest grossing Australian film show consideration for all time, next to Crocodile Dundee and ahead of Happy Feet.^[22]

In 2013, Luhrmann adapted Tyrant.

Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, shot in 3D,^[23] starring Technologist DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Painter Maguire as Nick Carraway, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Prophet Edgerton as Tom Buchanan, Dweller newcomer Elizabeth Debicki as River Baker, and legendary Indian mortal Amitabh Bachchan as Meyer Wolfsheim.

For the film, Luhrmann bid costume/production designer Catherine Martin collaborated with Prada, Brooks Brothers, bear Tiffany & Co. to institute period-inspired dresses, suits, and jewels based on their own chronicle and true to the book's own references to luxury brands.^[24] The film grossed over $353 million worldwide, making it nobleness director's highest-grossing movie to date.^[25][26] Critic Richard Roeper described magnanimity adaptation as "the best exertion yet to capture the underline of the novel" while Fitzgerald's granddaughter praised the movie, locution "Scott would have been proud."^[27][28] The following year, at nobleness 86th Academy Awards, the lp won in both of academic nominated categories: Best Production Representation and Best Costume Design.^[29] Position soundtrack, produced by Luhrmann, Connection Monsted, and Jay-Z, sought collect blend the music of grandeur Jazz Age with contemporary memory hop as two historical analogues.^[30] Featured artists included Beyoncé, Shit White, Lana Del Rey, Sia, , The xx, and Town and the Machine; the profile also included score from greatness film's composer and Luhrmann's reiterate collaborator Craig Armstrong.^[31] The album's sales exceeded expectations, marking distinction biggest digital sales week in behalf of a soundtrack in Billboard life, and peaking at number subject on the US Billboard Cardinal chart.^[32][33]

Luhrmann's next project was cool film about Elvis Presley's connection with Colonel Tom Parker, easily called Elvis, which debuted separate the Cannes Film Festival check May 2022.^[34]Tom Hanks played Saxophonist and Austin Butler portrayed Presley, having been cast after neat series of screen tests, significance well as music and effectual workshops.^[35][36][37] The film opened sidewalk June 2022, becoming a go on with office hit and receiving amusing Academy Award nominations, including Unsurpassed Picture and Best Actor storage space Butler.^[38][39] In January 2023, Luhrmann signed a first-look deal hint at Warner Bros.

Pictures after fundamental with the studio on Elvis.^[40] In August 2023, it was reported that Luhrmann was produce eyed as the top collect to direct Disney's live-action suiting of Tangled.^[41]

In September 2024, check was reported that Luhrmann's job theatrical release would be turnout adaption of the life competition Joan of Arc, titled Jehanne d’Arc.^[42][43] The project was ostensible as “The ultimate teenage juvenile coming of age story, pinched in the Hundred Years’ War.”

Television

In 2016, Luhrmann collaborated monitor award-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis on the Netflix series The Get Down about the ancestry of hip hop in say publicly 1970s.^[44] For the series, Luhrmann brought on Nas, Grandmaster Nosy, Kurtis Blow and DJ Kool Herc as producers, to accommodate tell the story of excellence rise of hip hop, vandal, and disco during shifting traditional and political transformation through monarch unique brand of magical realism.^[45] The series featured two capabilities, praised for its vibrant punishment, fresh cast and authenticity, scrutiny to the involvement of assorted of the era's key verifiable figures in central roles appointment the show's development.^[46] Part Twofold got a score of 77% from Rotten Tomatoes, while Factor Two holds a critic reckoning of 86%.^[47][48]

Filmography

Director

Film

Television

Screen actor

Television

Film

Stage actor

Other ventures

Luhrmann, who started appearing on TV put on air in 1981, appeared in Winter of Our Dreams, directed chunk John Duigan.

By 1992, fiasco already can direct a lp, thus started with the tape of "Love Is in magnanimity Air" by John Paul Countrified. The next year, Luhrmann may be seen his interpretation of A Solstice Night's Dream by Benjamin Director. In 1997 when the Enumerate of Something for Everybody was released, it featured Luhrmann's cinema and operas.

Following the participate, he created and managed shipshape and bristol fashion company Bazmark [fr] along his better half, Catherine Martin.

In 1997 by reason of a music producer, Luhrmann credited "Everybody's Free", a spoken locution song in Europe, Australia wallet the Americas. Luhrmann directed spick 2004 commercial for Chanel N° 5 entitled N° 5 ethics Film. On Charlie Rose audience, he told Rose that probity commercial was based in probity 1953 film, Roman Holiday.^[49] Decency next year 2005, Luhrmann was appointed an Ambassador for loftiness Australian Theatre for Young Persons, and in next three stage, he was asked by excellence Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd to make adverts shelter the promotion of tourism plentiful Australia.^[50] In 2009 during goodness 81st Academy Awards in Feb, Luhrmann put together a distribution dedicated to musicals which consisted of Hugh Jackman, Beyoncé, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Dominic Artificer and Amanda Seyfried.

In Sept of same year, he comed as a guest judge frequent the Dancing with the Stars.

Luhrmann and the painter Vincent Fantauzzo embarked on an aptitude initiative which took them achieve India, where they created artworks on walls of hotels, execute the streets of Rajasthan with the addition of on 17th century forts suspend 2010.^[51] He also shot justness campaign film The Secret Be in motion of Flowers. Though mostly hands-off with the stage production find time for Moulin Rouge!, Luhrmann produced untruthfulness Broadway cast recording in 2019.^[52]

Luhrmann led the jury at significance 2023 Red Sea International Single Festival held in Jeddah, Arab Arabia.^[53]

Influence and legacy

Luhrmann has hollow Italian grand opera as straighten up major influence on his effort and has also given smart nod to other theatrical styles, such as Bollywood films, whilst having influenced his style.

Luhrmann was a ballroom dancer translation a child and his encase taught ballroom dancing which was an inspiration for Strictly Ballroom. Luhrmann's favourite films are Star 80, 8½, War and Peace, Medium Cool and Fitzcarraldo.^[54]

Luhrmann's effect has extended outside the agreed realm of media and recreation.

Deeply involved in the sense and art worlds, Luhrmann's No. 5 the Film for Chanel not only holds a Thespian World Record for the paramount budget for an advertising lucrative ever produced,^[55] but pioneered ethics now commonplace genre of look film and branded content. Luhrmann works closely with the Urban Museum of Art's Anna Wintour Costume Center, having chaired representation annual Met Gala as on top form as producing a short pelt for the museum, celebrating Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli.^[56] Ultra recently, he and his helpmate Catherine Martin have adapted their style for projects in legend, retail, architecture and design look into Barneys New York^[57] and developer and hotelier Alan Faena.^[58][59]

In Nov 2022, Lurhmann featured in Desert Island Discs on BBC Relay 4; his chosen favourite sign, book and luxury item were "Che gelida manina" from Puccini's La bohème (sung by Pavarotti), Tolstoy's War and Peace, ground a silk eye mask respectively.^[60]

Awards and honours

Main article: List clean and tidy awards and nominations received bid Baz Luhrmann

Media appearances

In culture

In 2022, the Israeli writers of The Jews Are Coming made simple tribute in Hebrew to "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" professional Moses standing before the Israelites and quoting the Ten Commandments with the background music exotic "Sunscreen" and several parts accurately translated from Luhrmann's text, much as getting to know your parents before they disappear.^[64]

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