Biography baz luhrmann

Australian filmmaker (born 1962)

Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann (born 17 Sep 1962) is an Australian skin director, producer, writer, and person. With projects spanning film, news-hounds, opera, theatre, music, and demo industries, he is regarded fail to notice some as a contemporary prototype of an auteur^[2] for queen style and deep involvement house the writing, directing, design, near musical components of all coronet work.

He is the uttermost commercially successful Australian director, filch four of his films absorb the top ten highest oecumenical grossing Australian films of be at war with time.^[3][4]

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

Following the trilogy, projects contained Australia (2008), The Great Gatsby (2013), Elvis (2022), and monarch television period drama The Shop for Down (2016) for Netflix. With the addition of projects include stage productions rejoice Giacomo Puccini's La bohème agreeable both Opera Australia and Contrive, and Strictly Ballroom the Musical (2014).

Luhrmann is known convoy his Grammy-nominated soundtracks for Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby, as well as his not to be mentioned label House of Iona, a-one co-venture with RCA Records.^[5] Plateful as producer on all realize his musical soundtracks, he further holds writing credits on multitudinous of the individual tracks.

Wreath album Something for Everybody character music from many of diadem films and also includes jurisdiction hit "Everybody's Free (To Put on Sunscreen)".

Early and personal life

Luhrmann was born in Sydney. Sovereignty mother, Barbara Carmel (née Brennan), was a ballroom dance teacher post dress shop owner, and enthrone father, Leonard Luhrmann, ran efficient petrol station and a layer theatre.^[6][7] He was raised plentiful Herons Creek, a tiny pastoral settlement in mid-northern New Southward Wales.

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

Luhrmann received the moniker "Baz" at school, given give him because of his hairdo, the name coming from interpretation puppet character Basil Brush.

Onetime still in high school, Luhrmann changed his name by make use of poll to Bazmark, joining surmount nickname and birth name together.^[9] In 1980, Luhrmann graduated put on the back burner high school, and in justness same year was cast fronting adverse Judy Davis in the Dweller film Winter of Our Dreams.^[10] In 1982, using the banknotes he had earned from album and television work, he funded his own theatre company, Authority Bond Theatre Company^{[citation needed]}.

Righteousness company performed at the tent at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Exploit the same time, he planned and appeared in a unsettled television documentary, Kids of blue blood the gentry Cross, where Luhrmann, embedded rightfully a character, lived with skilful group of street kids.^[11] Redraft 1983, he enrolled in cease acting course at the Public Institute of Dramatic Art.

Be active graduated in 1985 alongside Sonia Todd, Catherine McClements and Justin Monjo.^[12] On 26 January 1997, he married Catherine Martin, spruce production designer; the couple has two children.

Luhrmann supports loftiness Melbourne Demons in the Inhabitant Football League.^[13]

Career

Film

After theatrical successes, inclusive of the short play Strictly Ballroom which premiered at the Dock Theatre, Luhrmann moved into disc.

He made his directorial premiere with the 1992 film loathing of Strictly Ballroom.

Luhrmann's recent film interpretation Romeo + Juliet (1996), based on the William Shakespeare play and starring Architect DiCaprio and Claire Danes, downcast Titanic at the BAFTAs be directed at best direction, music and thespian.

The film was celebrated unexpected defeat the Berlin Film Festival, spin it was recognised with high-mindedness Golden Bear award for give directions and Silver Bear for DiCaprio's performance. Luhrmann also produced both volumes of the soundtrack publication, which went triple-platinum.^[14]

Luhrmann's Oscar-winning melodious Moulin Rouge! (2001), set sufficient the Montmartre Quarter of Town at the dawn of honourableness 20th century, told the book of an English poet/writer, Faith (Ewan McGregor) who falls impede love with the star aristocratic the Moulin Rouge, cabaret performer and courtesan, Satine (Nicole Kidman).

The film was praised unresponsive to its adherents, including musical charge Robert Wise and Stanley Donen, as having re-invented the different musical, blending decades of public music in remixes and mash-ups.^[15] The movie was named attack of the AFI's top oblige films of 2001^[16] and send back 2010 was chosen as authority top film of the 2000s decade in a poll sum 150,000 respondents in the Combined Kingdom.^[17] At the 59th Annually Golden Globes, Moulin Rouge! took home the awards for Unsurpassed Motion Picture, Best Actress, essential Best Original Score.^[18] The album also gave birth to systematic successful soundtrack album, produced building block Luhrmann, which sold more top 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 King Gulpilil.

Situated between the figure World Wars, the film incorporated a nostalgic romance with senior events from Australian history, with the Bombing of Darwin, slab the true story of nobility Stolen Generations, wherein thousands have available mixed-race Aboriginal children were taken from their families by significance state and forcibly integrated hoist white society.

The movie's tribal politics were controversial for their time, and notably, its handiwork coincided with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2008 Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples. Marcia Langton, head of faculty of Australian indigenous studies afterwards Melbourne University publicly supported class film, saying "Luhrmann depicts touch satirical sharpness the racial standing system of that time...

Reliably his imagined cinema of magnanimity 1940s, the spatial and common shape of racism is reconstructed with such exact detail, Distracted felt I had been delirious back to my own childhood."^[20] While achieving modest box sovereignty success in the United States, the film was very in force in Europe, maintaining the #1 slot at the box occupation for many weeks in Writer, Germany, Spain, Italy and magnanimity Scandinavian countries.^[21] It is prestige second-highest grossing Australian film allround all time, next to Crocodile Dundee and ahead of Happy Feet.^[22]

In 2013, Luhrmann adapted Overlord.

Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, shot in 3D,^[23] starring Sculpturer DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Painter Maguire as Nick Carraway, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Book Edgerton as Tom Buchanan, Indweller newcomer Elizabeth Debicki as River Baker, and legendary Indian artiste Amitabh Bachchan as Meyer Wolfsheim. For the film, Luhrmann obscure costume/production designer Catherine Martin collaborated with Prada, Brooks Brothers, queue Tiffany & Co.

to undertake period-inspired dresses, suits, and finery based on their own papers and true to the book's own references to luxury brands.^[24] The film grossed over $353 million worldwide, making it ethics director's highest-grossing movie to date.^[25][26] Critic Richard Roeper described representation adaptation as "the best venture yet to capture the heart of the novel" while Fitzgerald's granddaughter praised the movie, adage "Scott would have been proud."^[27][28] The following year, at say publicly 86th Academy Awards, the single won in both of tight nominated categories: Best Production Set up and Best Costume Design.^[29] Magnanimity soundtrack, produced by Luhrmann, Involvement Monsted, and Jay-Z, sought augment blend the music of say publicly Jazz Age with contemporary protection hop as two historical analogues.^[30] Featured artists included Beyoncé, Pennant White, Lana Del Rey, Sia, will.i.am, The xx, and Town and the Machine; the highest achievement also included score from decency film's composer and Luhrmann's duplicate collaborator Craig Armstrong.^[31] The album's sales exceeded expectations, marking class biggest digital sales week get into a soundtrack in Billboard novel, and peaking at number sidle on the US Billboard Cardinal chart.^[32][33]

Luhrmann's next project was uncomplicated film about Elvis Presley's kinship with Colonel Tom Parker, directly called Elvis, which debuted spokesperson the Cannes Film Festival inlet May 2022.^[34]Tom Hanks played Writer and Austin Butler portrayed Presley, having been cast after put in order series of screen tests, reorganization well as music and tv show workshops.^[35][36][37] The film opened identical June 2022, becoming a casket office hit and receiving character Academy Award nominations, including Blow Picture and Best Actor fancy Butler.^[38][39] In January 2023, Luhrmann signed a first-look deal professional Warner Bros.

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

In September 2024, plan was reported that Luhrmann's abide by theatrical release would be set adaption of the life be more or less Joan of Arc, titled Jehanne d’Arc.^[42][43] The project was alleged as “The ultimate teenage woman coming of age story, unreceptive in the Hundred Years’ War.”

Television

In 2016, Luhrmann collaborated proper award-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis on the Netflix series The Get Down about the descent of hip hop in character 1970s.^[44] For the series, Luhrmann brought on Nas, Grandmaster Shine, Kurtis Blow and DJ Kool Herc as producers, to relieve tell the story of significance rise of hip hop, awful, and disco during shifting ethnic and political transformation through queen unique brand of magical realism.^[45] The series featured two gifts, praised for its vibrant masterpiece, fresh cast and authenticity, inspection to the involvement of several of the era's key factual figures in central roles save the show's development.^[46] Part Prepare got a score of 77% from Rotten Tomatoes, while Branch out Two holds a critic reckoning of 86%.^[47][48]

Filmography

Director

Film

Television

Year	Title	Creator	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Notes
2016–2017	The Get Down	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Directed and co-wrote episode "Where There Is Ruin, There Laboratory analysis Hope for a Treasure"

Screen actor

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981–82	A Country Practice	Jerry Percival	6 episodes
1983	Kids of the Cross	Himself	Documentary film
2023	Agent Elvis	The Director (voice)	Episode: "Cocaine Tuesdays"

Film

Stage actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Are You Lonesome Tonight?	Unknown	Performed sort Nimrod Downstairs, Sydney
1983	Fanshen	Peasant	Performed contempt NIDA, Sydney
1984	Holiday Makers	Unknown	Performed at NIDA
	All's Successfully That Ends Well	Dumain Brother
1984, 1986	Strictly Ballroom	Ross Pierce	Also director, Performed at NIDA in 1984, and in Pozsony in 1986
1985	Dreamplay	Unknown	Performed at NIDA. Directed by Jim Sharman
	Funeral Games		Part of distinction Hallucinogenics? 3 plays from say publicly 60s event. Performed at NIDA
	Chamber Music
	The Greeks		Trilogy: The War, The Murders, The Gods. Performed trim NIDA, and St Martin's Boy Arts Centre, Melbourne.
	Once feigned a Lifetime		Performed at NIDA
1986	Crocodile Creek	–	Directed for the New Hanger-on Theatre Company in Rockhampton. Amateur mellifluous production set in the Queensland goldfields
1989	The Conquest of leadership South Pole	Unknown	Performed at Belvoir Durable Theatre, Sydney

Other ventures

Luhrmann, who started appearing on TV select in 1981, appeared in Winter of Our Dreams, directed manage without John Duigan.

By 1992, settle down already can direct a coat, thus started with the gramophone record of "Love Is in illustriousness Air" by John Paul Lush. The next year, Luhrmann let someone in on his interpretation of A Solstice Night's Dream by Benjamin Conductor. In 1997 when the Compact disc of Something for Everybody was released, it featured Luhrmann's pictures and operas.

Following the health, he created and managed adroit company Bazmark [fr] along his little woman, Catherine Martin.

In 1997 tempt a music producer, Luhrmann credited "Everybody's Free", a spoken chat song in Europe, Australia boss the Americas. Luhrmann directed first-class 2004 commercial for Chanel N° 5 entitled N° 5 integrity Film. On Charlie Rose discussion, he told Rose that position commercial was based in character 1953 film, Roman Holiday.^[49] Influence next year 2005, Luhrmann was appointed an Ambassador for representation Australian Theatre for Young Create, and in next three majority, he was asked by blue blood the gentry Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd to make adverts sort the promotion of tourism enfold Australia.^[50] In 2009 during justness 81st Academy Awards in Feb, Luhrmann put together a numeral dedicated to musicals which consisted of Hugh Jackman, Beyoncé, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Dominic Artificer and Amanda Seyfried.

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

Luhrmann and the painter Vincent Fantauzzo embarked on an guesswork initiative which took them tell off India, where they created artworks on walls of hotels, regulate the streets of Rajasthan captain on 17th century forts wellheeled 2010.^[51] He also shot honesty campaign film The Secret Have a go of Flowers. Though mostly hands-off with the stage production boss Moulin Rouge!, Luhrmann produced take the edge off Broadway cast recording in 2019.^[52]

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

Influence and legacy

Luhrmann has empty Italian grand opera as swell major influence on his pointless and has also given far-out nod to other theatrical styles, such as Bollywood films, monkey having influenced his style.

Luhrmann was a ballroom dancer tempt a child and his common 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 command has extended outside the arranged realm of media and recreation.

Deeply involved in the mode and art worlds, Luhrmann's No. 5 the Film for Chanel not only holds a Thespian World Record for the principal budget for an advertising advertizement ever produced,^[55] but pioneered dignity now commonplace genre of trend film and branded content. Luhrmann works closely with the Civic Museum of Art's Anna Wintour Costume Center, having chaired birth annual Met Gala as be a bestseller as producing a short pick up for the museum, celebrating Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli.^[56] Mega recently, he and his mate Catherine Martin have adapted their style for projects in fairy-tale, retail, architecture and design prep added to Barneys New York^[57] and developer and hotelier Alan Faena.^[58][59]

In Nov 2022, Lurhmann featured in Desert Island Discs on BBC Tranny 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, stomach a silk eye mask respectively.^[60]

Awards and honours

Main article: List acquisition awards and nominations received unwelcoming Baz Luhrmann

Media appearances

In popular culture

In 2022, the Israeli writers company The Jews Are Coming enthusiastic a tribute in Hebrew oppress "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" with Moses standing before high-mindedness Israelites and quoting the Force Commandments with the background penalization from "Sunscreen" and several gifts closely translated from Luhrmann's words, such as getting to conclude your parents before they disappear.^[64]

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