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Laurent Bouzereau | |
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| Born | France |
| Occupation(s) | Filmmaker, producer, author |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse(s) | Markus Keith, (2001–present) |
| Website | Nedland Media. |
Laurent Bouzereau is a French-American documentary filmmaker, producer, and author.
Laurent Bouzereau is the director of the upcoming event documentary on composer John Williams, produced by Lucasfilm, Amblin Documentaries, Imagine Documentaries & Nedland Media. [1] [2]
Recent films include Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford for Lucasfilm / Disney+ [3] and the HBO feature length documentary Mama's Boy, based on the best-selling memoir by Dustin Lance Black. The film was produced by LD Entertainment, Amblin Television, Playtone and Nedland Media and opened the 2022 NewFest - LGBTQ+ Film and Media festival. [4] [5]
Bouzereau is also the director / co-producer of Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, for HBO and Amblin Television. The film was selected at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and presented in the Documentary Premiere selection. [6] He directed and co-produced the acclaimed Netflix series Five Came Back , executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Amblin Television, based on the best-selling book by Mark Harris, with an Emmy-winning narration by Meryl Streep. [7] The documentary features Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass, Lawrence Kasdan, and Steven Spielberg. [8]
Bouzereau was born and raised in a suburb of Paris, France. [9] He began his career in New York as a freelance journalist and author with The De Palma Cut while working in publicity and promotion for the independent distribution company Spectrafilm. Upon moving to Hollywood, he was story editor and graduated to director of development for Bette Midler's production company, All Girl Productions. He got his start in home entertainment when he recorded audio commentary for the Criterion Collection on the LaserDisc for Carrie in 1991. [10] In 1995, he produced his first of many documentaries for Steven Spielberg when he was asked to work on the LaserDisc restoration of the film 1941. [10] That year he also produced The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws', a feature-length documentary that was included on the LaserDisc release of Jaws in 1995, [11] and later on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film. [12] Following the success of this documentary, Bouzereau continued to produce retrospective documentaries for Laserdisc, including the making of Scarface [13] and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial [14] in 1996, the making of Psycho [15] in 1997 and the making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind [16] in 1998. In 2002, for the production of A.I. Artificial Intelligence , he began documenting the filmmaking process on-set. [17]
Bouzereau has produced documentaries on the making-of some of the biggest films in the history of cinema, by some of the most acclaimed directors of all-time. He has produced most of the documentaries on the making of Steven Spielberg's films. [18] In total, he has documented over 150 films, including the Indiana Jones [19] and Jurassic Park [20] film franchises. Among the many titles include American Graffiti [21] by George Lucas, Titanic [22] and Avatar [23] by James Cameron, the Universal and Warners Bros. Alfred Hitchcock collections, [24] Lawrence of Arabia [25] and The Bridge on the River Kwai [26] by David Lean, Taxi Driver , [27] Raging Bull and Casino [28] by Martin Scorsese, Scarface , [29] Carrie , [30] and Dressed to Kill [31] by Brian De Palma, Cruising [32] and The Exorcist [33] by William Friedkin, Back to the Future [34] by Robert Zemeckis, Reds [35] by Warren Beatty, Chinatown [36] and Tess [37] by Roman Polanski, and The Last Picture Show [38] by Peter Bogdanovich.
As an author, Bouzereau's credits include Steven Spielberg: The First Ten Years (2023), [39] West Side Story: The Making of the Steven Spielberg Film, Hitchcock: Piece by Piece, The Art of Bond, The New York Times Best-Seller The Making of Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace [40] , Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, The Cutting Room Floor: Movie Scenes Which Never Made It To The Screen,Ultra Violent Movies: From Sam Peckinpah to Quentin Tarantino and The De Palma Cut: The Films of America's Most Controversial Director. [41]
Bouzereau wrote, directed and produced the documentary on legendary film producer Richard D. Zanuck entitled Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking, executive produced by Steven Spielberg. [42] Zanuck watched the film three days before he died. [43] He also wrote, directed and produced the TCM/Amblin Television series A Night at the Movies. [44] Episodes include George Lucas and the World of Fantasy Cinema, The Horrors of Stephen King, Hollywood Goes to Washington, The Gigantic World of Epics, The Suspenseful World of Thrillers, Merry Christmas!, and Cops & Robbers and Crime Writers. [45]
Laurent Bouzereau is the co-founder of Nedland Media, with his partner Markus Keith. Together, they are developing narrative films, television series and documentaries.
Bouzereau directed and produced a documentary about actress Faye Dunaway. Faye is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and later on HBO and Max in 2024. [46]
Steven Spielberg
Alfred Hitchcock
David Lean
Brian de Palma
William Friedkin
Martin Scorsese
Robert Zemeckis
Sidney Lumet
Peter Bogdanovich
François Truffaut
Francis Ford Coppola
Roman Polanski
Walter Hill
Warren Beatty
Arthur Penn
Cecil B. DeMille
William Wyler
John Boorman
Lawrence Kasdan
George Lucas
Elia Kazan
John Carpenter
David Cronenberg
Orson Welles
John Millus
Mel Brooks
Robert Wise
Jeannot Szwarc
James Bridges
Joe Dante
Mel Gibson
Gary Ross
Terrence Malick
Sean Penn
Steve McQueen
Lasse Hallström
Sam Taylor Johnson
Colin Trevorrow
J.J. Abrams
Rupert Sanders
Matt Reeves
Kenneth Branagh
J.A. Bayona
James Gray
Felix Van Groeningen
Mike Flanagan
Miguel Sapochnik
André Øvredal
Wes Ball
| Year | Award | Category |
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| 2014 | Silver Key Art Award: 12 Years a Slave documentary for Blu-ray A Historical Portrait [47] | Clio Awards |
| 2008 | Best Blu-ray Catalogue Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind Blu-ray [48] | DVD Critics Awards |
| 2004 | The Pioneer Award [49] | DVD Exclusive Awards |
| 2003 | Career Achievement Award [50] | F.I.M.O: Festival International du 'Making of' |
| 2001 | Best Documentary: The Birds DVD [51] | DVD Exclusive Awards |
Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and is the most commercially successful director in film history. He is the recipient of many accolades, including three Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and four Directors Guild of America Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen, and starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough. It is the first installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, and the first film in the original Jurassic Park trilogy, and is based on Michael Crichton's 1990 novel of the same name, with a screenplay by Crichton and David Koepp. The film is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, off Central America's Pacific Coast near Costa Rica, where a wealthy businessman John Hammond (Attenborough), and a team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of de-extinct dinosaurs. When industrial sabotage leads to a catastrophic shutdown of the park's power facilities and security precautions, a small group of visitors, including Hammond's grandchildren, struggle to survive and escape the now perilous island.
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Scarface is a 1983 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, and starring Al Pacino. It is a remake of the 1932 film of the same name, in turn based on the novel of the same name first published in 1930 by Armitage Trail. It tells the story of Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Pacino), who arrives penniless in Miami during the Mariel boatlift and becomes a powerful drug lord. The film co-stars Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Míriam Colón and F. Murray Abraham.
Jaws 2 is a 1978 American horror thriller film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and co-written by Carl Gottlieb. It is the sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975), and the second installment in the Jaws franchise. The film stars Roy Scheider as Police Chief Martin Brody, with Lorraine Gary and Murray Hamilton reprising their respective roles as Martin's wife Ellen Brody and mayor Larry Vaughn. It also stars Joseph Mascolo, Jeffrey Kramer, Collin Wilcox, Ann Dusenberry, Mark Gruner, Susan French, Barry Coe, Donna Wilkes, Gary Springer, and Keith Gordon in his first feature film role. The plot concerns Chief Brody suspecting another great white shark is terrorizing the fictional seaside resort of Amity Island, following a series of incidents and disappearances, and his suspicions are eventually proven true.
Kathleen Kennedy is an American film producer who has been president of Lucasfilm since 2012.
Amblin' Entertainment, Inc., formerly named Amblin Productions and Steven Spielberg Productions, is an American film production company founded by director and producer Steven Spielberg, and film producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1980. Its headquarters are located in Bungalow 477 of the Universal Studios backlot in Universal City, California. It distributes all of the films from Amblin Partners under the Amblin Entertainment banner.
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Body Double is a 1984 American neo-noir erotic thriller film directed, co-written, and produced by Brian De Palma. It stars Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, Melanie Griffith and Deborah Shelton. The film is a direct homage to the 1950s films of Alfred Hitchcock, specifically Rear Window, Vertigo and Dial M for Murder, taking plot lines and themes from the first two.
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The following is a list of unproduced Steven Spielberg projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, American film director Steven Spielberg has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these projects fell in "development hell" or were officially canceled, some were turned over to other production teams, and still others never made it past the speculative stage.
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