Kenneth Lonergan
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PERSONAL DATA OF KENNETH LONERGAN
Age: 58 years old
Born in: New York, USA
Born on: 16/10/1962
BIOGRAPHY OF KENNETH LONERGAN
Born in New York to a psychiatrist mother and medical father, Kenneth Lonergan begins to show some aptitude for writing in high school. He writes his first play The Rennings Children at 19 and then graduated in dramaturgy at New York University in the mid-1980s. His first professional engagements came from an environmental protection agency, for which he wrote press releases and official speeches, and from companies such as Weight Watchers is FujiFilm who entrust him with the texts of their commercials.
His first success as a playwright comes in 1996. The play he wrote and titled This Is Our Youth receives excellent acclaim in the circuit off-Broadway. Among the performers of the first staging there is also a relatively unknown Mark Ruffalo, while the London staging a few years later can count on Jake Gyllenhaal, Hayden Christensen is Anna Paquin. Lonergan he is also the author of three other plays, The Waverly Gallery, Lobby Hero is The Starry Messenger. 1999 is the year of his film debut as a screenwriter with a brilliant script that became the film Therapy and bullets.
Also in 1999 he wrote the film adaptation of the animated series of the 60s Rocky & Bullwinckle and at the same time he is working on the script of Count on me, a drama that also marks his directorial debut. The film, produced by Martin Scorsese, grabbed prizes at many festivals and got two nominations for the Oscar, for the leading actress Laura Linney and for the same Lonergan as a screenwriter. The collaboration with Scorsese continues in 2002 with Gangs of New York, for which he collaborates on the script with Steven Zaillian is Jay Cocks.
In 2005 he finished shooting his second work as a screenwriter and director. Matthew Broderick, Anna Paquin, Mark Ruffalo is Matt Damon I’m in the cast of the film called Margaret. Six years pass, however, before seeing it in any movie theater, because the different producers disagree on the final version. The director finishes editing the film with a duration of two and a half hours, they tell him to shorten it and he replies no. They take over Martin S.Corsese and his editor Thelma Schoonmaker whose version becomes ten minutes longer. One of the producers hires an editor who creates a dry two-hour version, but the director doesn’t like it. You end up in court with a lawsuit and a counter-suit. Eventually, in 2011 the film comes out as it says Lonergan and the BBC puts it at 31st place on the list of the best 100 films of the 21st century.
The screenwriter and director does not lose faith in cinema and calmly gets back to work. The next film he writes and directs is Manchester by the Sea of 2016 which obtains excellent acclaim from critics and conquest 6 2017 Academy Award nominations. Lonergan and its protagonist Casey Affleck they win the BAFTA Award and the latter also takes home the Golden Globe Best Actor in the Drama category. Kenneth Lonergan is back at work as a writer on the TV series adaptation of the novel from which the film was based Howard House.
KENNETH LONERGAN’S MOST RECENT FILMS
Manchester by the Sea
Role: Film director
Year: 2016
Margaret
Role: Film director
Year: 2011
Count on me (You Can Count On Me)
Role: Film director
Year: 1999
Count on me (You Can Count On Me)
Role: Actor
Year: 1999 Go to the complete Filmography
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AWARDS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR KENNETH LONERGAN
Oscar
Here are all the awards and nominations Oscar
- 2017 – Best Original Screenplay Award for Manchester by the Sea
- 2017 – Best director nomination for Manchester by the Sea
- 2003 – Nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Gangs of New York
- 2001 – Nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Conta su di me
Golden Globe
Here are all the awards and nominations Golden Globe
- 2017 – Best director nomination for Manchester by the Sea
- 2017 – Best Screenplay Nomination for Manchester by the Sea
- 2001 – Best screenplay nomination for Conta su di me
BAFTA
Here are all the awards and nominations BAFTA
- 2017 – Best Original Screenplay Award for Manchester by the Sea
- 2017 – Best director nomination for Manchester by the Sea
- 2003 – Nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Gangs of New York
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