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- Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Celia Sayre (Martin) Chazelle, is an American-Canadian writer and professor of history at The College of New Jersey. His father, Bernard Chazelle, is a French-American Eugene Higgins Professor of computer science at Princeton University, originally from Clamart, France. Chazelle has a sister, Anna, who is an actress and circus performer.- IMDb mini biography by: omermertcanbolat
- Damien Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter. His directorial debut was the musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), his breakthrough came when he wrote and directed his second feature film, Whiplash (2014), which was based on his award-winning 2013 short film of the same name. The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Chazelle.
In 2016 his film La La Land received critical and commercial acclaim, winning all 7 of its Golden Globe nominations, including Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. It also received a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations, winning six including Best Director for Chazelle who became the youngest person in history to win a Oscar for Best Director at the age of 32.
Chazelle also co-wrote 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016).- IMDb mini biography by: Pedro Borges
- SpousesOlivia Hamilton(September 22, 2018 - present) (2 children)Jasmine McGlade(June 26, 2010 - 2014) (divorced)
- Parents
- RelativesAnna Chazelle(Sibling)
- His films often revolve heavily around jazz music
- His films often revolve around people who are defined by their potential talent and ambition
- Rapid-fire edits
- Whip pan
- He frequently uses music by Justin Hurwitz (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Whiplash, La La Land, First Man and Babylon)
- His Best Director Oscar win for La La Land (2016) at age 32, made him the youngest recipient of this award category in the Academy's history (26 Feb 2017).
- Graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies.
- He is the youngest person to win the Golden Globe for Best Director.
- Met his former wife, director-producer Jasmine McGlade, at Harvard University. She was his co-worker on several projects and movies.
- He is the son of Celia (Martin), a writer, and Bernard Chazelle, a computer scientist. His father is French, from Clamart. His mother was born in California, to an English-born, Beverly Hills-raised, father, and a Calgary-born, Canadian mother. Damien's mother was later herself raised in Calgary, before returning to the U.S.
- I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
- By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
- I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
- When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
- There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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