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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 and co-producer of the acclaimed feature documentary Music by John Williams about the life and career of composer John Williams, produced by Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Lucasfilm, Amblin Documentaries, Imagine Documentaries & Nedland Media. [1] [2] The film premiered at the AFI Film Festival [3] and received the Best Music Documentary Award from the Critics' Choice Awards. [4] Bouzereau is also the co-founder of Nedland Media, with his partner Markus Keith. Together, they are developing narrative films, television series and documentaries. [5]
Bouzereau directed and co-produced Faye, [6] about actress Faye Dunaway, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released on HBO and Max in 2024. [7] [8] His other films include Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail for StudioCanal [9] which premiered at the 2024 Lumière Film Festival, [10] Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford for Lucasfilm / Disney+ [11] and the HBO feature length documentary Mama's Boy, based on the best-selling memoir by Dustin Lance Black. [12] The film was produced by LD Entertainment, Amblin Television, Playtone and Nedland Media and opened the 2022 NewFest - LGBTQ+ Film and Media festival. [13] [14] Bouzereau is also the director / co-producer of Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, for HBO and Amblin Television. [15] The film was selected at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and presented in the Documentary Premiere selection. [16] 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. [17] The documentary features Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass, Lawrence Kasdan, and Steven Spielberg. [18]
Bouzereau was born and raised in a suburb of Paris, France. [19] 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. [20] 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. [20] 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, [21] and later on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film. [22] Following the success of this documentary, Bouzereau continued to produce retrospective documentaries for Laserdisc, including the making of Scarface [23] and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial [24] in 1996, the making of Psycho [25] in 1997 and the making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind [26] in 1998. In 2002, for the production of A.I. Artificial Intelligence , he began documenting the filmmaking process on-set. [27]
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. [28] In total, he has documented over 150 films, including the Indiana Jones [29] and Jurassic Park [30] film franchises. Among the many titles include American Graffiti [31] by George Lucas, Titanic [32] and Avatar [33] by James Cameron, Universal and Warners Bros. Alfred Hitchcock collections, [34] Lawrence of Arabia [35] and The Bridge on the River Kwai [36] by David Lean, Taxi Driver , [37] Raging Bull and Casino [38] by Martin Scorsese, Scarface , [39] Carrie , [40] and Dressed to Kill [41] by Brian De Palma, Cruising [42] and The Exorcist [43] by William Friedkin, Back to the Future [44] by Robert Zemeckis, Reds [45] by Warren Beatty, Chinatown [46] and Tess [47] by Roman Polanski, and The Last Picture Show [48] by Peter Bogdanovich.
As an author, Bouzereau's credits include Steven Spielberg: The First Ten Years, [49] The De Palma Decade, [50] West Side Story: The Making of the Steven Spielberg Film, [51] Hitchcock: Piece by Piece, [52] The Art of Bond, [53] The New York Times Best-Seller The Making of Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace [54] , Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, [55] The Cutting Room Floor: Movie Scenes Which Never Made It To The Screen, [56] Ultra Violent Movies: From Sam Peckinpah to Quentin Tarantino, [57] and The De Palma Cut: The Films of America's Most Controversial Director. [58]
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. [59] Zanuck watched the film three days before he died. [60] He also wrote, directed and produced the TCM/Amblin Television series A Night at the Movies. [61] 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. [62]
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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| 2024 | Best Music Documentary: Music by John Williams [63] | Critics' Choice Documentary Awards |
| 2024 | Nominated, Best Documentary Feature: Music by John Williams [64] | Critics' Choice Documentary Awards |
| 2024 | Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking: Music by John Williams [65] | Newport Beach Film Festival |
| 2024 | Nominated, Best Documentary: Music by John Williams [66] | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards |
| 2024 | Nominated, Best Documentary Film: Music by John Williams [66] | St. Louis FIlm Critics Association, US |
| 2024 | Nominated, Best Documentary: Music by John Williams [66] | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards |
| 2024 | Nominated, Best Documentary: Music by John Williams [66] | Michigan Movie Critics Guild Awards |
| 2024 | Nominated, Best Music Documentary/Special Program: Music by John Williams [66] | Hollywood Music In Media Awards |
| 2024 | Nominated, Astra Award Best Documentary Feature: Music by John Williams [67] | Astra Film Awards |
| 2024 | Nominated, Golden Eye: Faye [68] | Cannes Film Festival |
| 2024 | Nominated, Best Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Program: Faye [68] | Online Film & Television Association |
| 2023 | Nominated, Best LGBTQ Documentary or Documentary Series: Mama's Boy [69] | Dorian TV Awards |
| 2023 | Nominated, Outstanding Documentary: Mama's Boy [69] | GLAAD Media Awards |
| 2023 | Nominated, Documentary: Mama's Boy [69] | The Queerties |
| 2020 | Nominated, Best Historical/Biographical Documentary: Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind [70] | Critics' Choice Documentary Awards |
| 2018 | Best Edited Documentary - Television: Five Came Back "The Price of Victory" [71] | American Cinema Editors, USA |
| 2018 | Nominated, Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Nonfiction Filmmaking: Five Came Back [72] | Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US |
| 2018 | Nominated, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR for Single Presentation Broadcast Media: Five Came Back [73] | Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA |
| 2017 | Nominated, Best Limited Documentary Series (TV/Streaming): Five Came Back [74] | Critics' Choice Documentary Awards |
| 2017 | Nominated, Best Documentary (TV Spot/Trailer/Teaser for a series): Five Came Back [75] | Golden Trailer Awards |
| 2017 | Nominated, Best Writing of a Reality of Non-Fiction Program: Five Came Back [76] | Online Film & Television Association |
| 2017 | Nominated, Best Music in a Non-Series: Five Came Back [76] | Online Film & Television Association |
| 2017 | Outstanding Narrator, Meryl Streep: Five Came Back "The Price of Victory" [77] | Primetime Emmy Awards |
| 2017 | Nominated, Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special (Original Dramatic Score): Five Came Back "The Price of Victory" [77] | Primetime Emmy Awards |
| 2014 | Silver Key Art Award: 12 Years a Slave documentary for Blu-ray A Historical Portrait [78] | Clio Awards |
| 2008 | Best Blu-ray Catalogue Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind Blu-ray [79] | DVD Critics Awards |
| 2004 | The Pioneer Award [80] | DVD Exclusive Awards |
| 2003 | Career Achievement Award [81] | F.I.M.O: Festival International du 'Making of' |
| 2001 | Best Documentary: The Birds DVD [82] | 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, and four Golden Globe Awards as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2001, 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".
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