There may not be an obvious connection between Damien Chazelle’s horror script “The Last Exorcism Part 2” and “Whiplash,” but the adapted screenplay nominee drew heavily on his training as a ...
It has been just about a full year since “Whiplash” debuted—or, rather, exploded—out of the Sundance Film Festival, where it seized both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. Now a PGA and WGA ...
J.K. Simmons revealed in an oral history of “Whiplash” to mark the film’s 10th anniversary that he assumed the film’s director, Damien Chazelle, was a Black man after he first read the script about ...
Nearly 11 months after he picked up the Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 12 Years A Slave, John Ridley and his script won the Humanitas Prize for Feature Film today. Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash script, ...
And now, a year after that memorable moment, Whiplash is up for five Academy Awards (Best Picture, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Writing/Adapted Screenplay, and Supporting Actor). At the Critics' Choice ...
In order to nail down financing for his Black Listed script, writer/director Damien Chazelle directed this 18-minute short film version of “Whiplash” for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. And the rest ...
Damien Chazelle has two Oscar-winning films to his name, but the filmmaker says that “La La Land’ and “Whiplash” wouldn’t have become as critically acclaimed as they were without the help of ...