The dicrector of the American psychological thriller "Abandon" wond an academ award for what film?
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Abandon (film) Abandon is a 2002 American psychological thriller drama film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, starring Katie Holmes as a college student whose boyfriend (Charlie Hunnam) disappeared two years previously. Despite being set at an American university, much of the movie was filmed in Canada at McGill University's McConnell Hall. It is based on the book "Adams Fall" by Sean Desmond. The book was re-titled "Abandon" for the movie tie-in paperback printing. The film co-stars Zooey Deschanel and Gabrielle Union, with Benjamin Bratt playing the detective investigating the boyfriend's disappearance. It received generally negative reviews.
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Stephen Gaghan Stephen Gaghan (born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film "Traffic", based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award, as well as "Syriana" which he wrote and directed.
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D. J. Caruso Daniel John "D. J." Caruso, Jr. (born January 17, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His work encompasses a variety of genres, including thriller ("Disturbia, Taking Lives"), dramas ("Standing Up"), horror ("The Disappointments Room"), and action ("I Am Number Four, "). He has also directed numerous episodes of television series such as "The Shield", "Over There", "Smallville", and "Dark Angel". The majority of his films fall into the thriller and action film genres.
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David Schmoeller David Schmoeller (born December 8, 1947) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is notable for directing several full-length theatrical horror films including "Tourist Trap" (1979), "The Seduction" (1982), "Puppet Master" (1989), "Catacombs" (1988), "Netherworld" (1992) and "Crawlspace" (1986) starring Klaus Kinski. In May, 2012, Schmoeller was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Porto Alegre, Brazil where his new feature film, "2 Little Monsters" (2012) was screened along with his other notable films.
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List of accolades received by David Lynch David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. Indeed, the surreal and in many cases violent elements to his films have earned them the reputation that they "disturb, offend or mystify" their audiences.
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Derek Cianfrance Derek M. Cianfrance ( ; born January 1974) is an American film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and editor.
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Jessica Lovering Jessica Lovering is an American astrophysicist, researcher and Director of Energy at the Breakthrough Institute. She supports the innovative development of new nuclear power plants in response to climate change. She also sits on the Advisory Committee of the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, and was a speaker at Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp at the University of California, Berkley in 2016. Her biography at ClimateOne states that Lovering "works to change how people think about energy and the environment". Her written work has featured in various publications, including journals "Issues in Science and Technology", "Science and Public Policy", "Foreign Affairs" and "Energy policy." Websites featuring her work include various nuclear energy blogs and EnergyPost.eu. She has worked as a researcher on the documentary film "Pandora's Promise" and appeared in the TV series "Abandoned".
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The Last Mimzy The Last Mimzy is a 2007 American science fiction adventure drama film directed by Robert Shaye and loosely adapted from the 1943 science fiction short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (the pseudonym of husband and wife team Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). The film features Timothy Hutton, Joely Richardson, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn, Michael Clarke Duncan, and introducing Rhiannon Leigh Wryn as seven-year-old Emma Wilder and Chris O’Neil as ten-year-old Noah.
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Altered Minds Altered Minds (originally titled The Red Robin) is a 2015 psychological thriller film directed by Michael Z. Wechsler, starring Judd Hirsch, Ryan O'Nan, C.S. Lee, Caroline Lagerfelt, Jaime Ray Newman, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Dennis Flanagan, Jake Miller, and Lily Pilblad.
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Rahul Thakkar Rahul C. Thakkar is an Indian-American software inventor who jointly won the Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement in 2016. Thakkar won the Academy Award for creating the "groundbreaking design" of DreamWorks Animation Media Review System, a scalable digital film review platform.
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Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Ann Bigelow ( ; born November 27, 1951) is an American director, producer, and writer. Her films include the vampire Western horror film "Near Dark" (1987), the action crime film "Point Break" (1991), the science fiction action thriller "Strange Days" (1995), the mystery thriller "The Weight of Water" (2000), the submarine thriller "" (2002), the war film "The Hurt Locker" (2008), the action thriller war film "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012), the short film "Last Days" (2014), and the period crime drama "Detroit" (2017). "The Hurt Locker" won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. She has also acted as producer and writer for many of her films.
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The Phobic The Phobic is a 2006 psychological thriller directed by Margo Romero and produced by Alex Ryan Productions, Inc.
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With Abandon With Abandon is the first album recorded by Chasing Furies, released in 1999. The song "Thicker" was the first single, and it originated a video directed by the award-winner filmmaker Brandon Dickerson.
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Dean Bertram Dean Bertram (PhD) is a freelance writer, filmmaker, and film festival director based in Sydney, Australia. He is the co-founder of A Night of Horror International Film Festival.
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Hide and Seek (2005 film) Hide and Seek is a 2005 American psychological horror-thriller film starring Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning. It was directed by John Polson. The film opened in the United States on January 28, 2005, and grossed $122 million worldwide. Rotten Tomatoes cited praise for De Niro and Fanning for their performances, though its consensus called the film "derivative, illogical and somewhat silly". Fanning received an MTV Movie Award for Best Frightened Performance in 2005.
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List of awards won by Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and film theorist. During his career he received numerous awards, both for individual films and in recognotion of his work. This list is most likely incomplete as only awards and nominations have been included that are confirmed either by the award-giving organization or by reliable third-party sources.
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Michael Anestis Michael David "Mike" Anestis (born November 18, 1979) is an American clinical psychologist and the Nina Bell Suggs professor of psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is also the Chair of Clinical Admissions and director of the Suicide and Emotion Dysregulation Lab there.
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Nightbreed Nightbreed (also Night Breed on publicity material, or Clive Barker's Nightbreed) is a 1990 American dark fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella "Cabal", and starring Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, and Doug Bradley. The film features an unstable mental patient who is falsely led to believe by his doctor that he is a serial killer. Tracked down by the police, his doctor, and his girlfriend Lori, Boone eventually finds refuge in an abandoned cemetery called Midian among a "tribe" of monsters and outcasts known as the "Nightbreed" where they hide from humanity.
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Bob Murawski Bob Murawski (born June 14, 1964) is an American film editor as well as a film distributor of cult horror and independent films under the "Box Office Spectaculars" and "Grindhouse Releasing" labels. He was awarded the 2010 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on "The Hurt Locker", which he shared with fellow editor and wife, Chris Innis. He often works with film director Sam Raimi, having edited the Spider-Man trilogy, "Oz the Great and Powerful", and the 2015 remake of "Poltergeist". He is an elected member of the American Cinema Editors.
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Jeff VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer (born July 7, 1968) is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling "Southern Reach" trilogy. The trilogy's first novel, "Annihilation", won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards and has been adapted into an upcoming Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Among VanderMeer's other novels are "" and "Borne". He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer such influential and award-winning anthologies as "The New Weird", "The Weird", and "The Big Book of Science Fiction".
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Kirk Simon Kirk Simon is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work on various documentaries. Simon has been nominated for an Academy Award four times, winning once. Simon has produced three films nominated for the Best Documentary (Short Subject), including "" (1990), "Rehearsing a Dream" (2007), and "Strangers No More" (2010); he won the award for the latter film at the 83rd Academy Awards, and shared the win with Karen Goodman with whom he worked on all three films. Simon has also received a nomination in the category of the Best Documentary Feature for producing "" (1986). In 2016, he produced a feature documentary on the centenary of the Pulitzer prize called "The Pulitzer at 100."
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David Brin Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. His novel "The Postman" was adapted as a feature film and starred Kevin Costner in 1997. Brin's nonfiction book "The Transparent Society" won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association and the McGannon Communication Award.