Laurent Bouzereau

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Laurent Bouzereau
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Born
France
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, producer, author
Years active1983–present
Spouse(s) Markus Keith, (2001–present)
Website Nedland Media.

Laurent Bouzereau is a French-American documentary filmmaker, producer, and author.

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Life and career

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]

Filmography

Documentaries

Television

Behind-the-Scenes Documentaries (selected titles)

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

Bibliography

Awards

YearAwardCategory
2014Silver Key Art Award: 12 Years a Slave documentary for Blu-ray A Historical Portrait [47] Clio Awards
2008Best Blu-ray Catalogue Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind Blu-ray [48] DVD Critics Awards
2004The Pioneer Award [49] DVD Exclusive Awards
2003Career Achievement Award [50] F.I.M.O: Festival International du 'Making of'
2001Best Documentary: The Birds DVD [51] DVD Exclusive Awards

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