Aaron Schimberg

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Aaron Schimberg is an American filmmaker best known for the 2019 film Chained for Life and the 2024 film A Different Man . [1] [2]

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Career

Schimberg's debut feature, Go Down Death, was the closing film of the 2013 Fantasia Film Festival. [3] His next film, Chained for Life , premiered at the 2018 BAMcinemaFest and was released theatrically by Kino Lorber the following year. [1]

Schimberg's third feature A Different Man , starring Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson and distributed by A24, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. [2] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 97th Academy Awards. He was named one of the top ten new directors to watch by Variety at that year's Palm Springs International Film Festival. [4]

Personal life

Schimberg was born with a cleft palate and cites it as the reason he gravitates toward narratives that focus on characters with facial disfigurement, that reflections on a person's face and how the world sees them is their way of writing about their own experience. [5]

Schimberg is married to Vanessa McDonnell, who also works as a producer on their films. [6]

Filmography

YearTitleRef.
2013Go Down Death [3]
2018 Chained for Life [1]
2024 A Different Man [2]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2019 Florida Film Festival Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature Chained for Life Won [7]
New Hampshire Film Festival Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative FeatureWon [7]
Knoxville Film FestivalBest Narrative Feature FilmWon [7]
New Orleans Film Festival Best Narrative FeatureWon [7]
Champs-Élysées Film Festival Best American Feature FilmNominated [8]
Method Fest Independent Film Festival Best Director Feature FilmNominated [9]
Best Feature FilmWon [9]
2024 Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear A Different Man Nominated [10]
Sitges Film Festival Best ScreenplayWon [11]
Gotham Awards Best FeatureWon [12]
Palm Springs International Film Festival Top 10 Directors to WatchWon [a] [4]

Notes

  1. Recognized alongside Blitz Bazawule, Ilker Çatak, Sophie Dupuis, Cord Jefferson, Titus Kaphar, Anna Kendrick, Kobi Libii, Ena Sendijarevic, and Eva Trobisch.

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