Michael Mann (film director)
| Michael Mann | |
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Mann at the 2014 Comic-Con International.
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| Born |
Michael Kenneth Mann February 5, 1943 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Michael K. Mann |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Years active | 1968–present |
| Home town | Chicago, Illinois |
| Spouse(s) | Summer Mann (1974–present; 4 children) |
| Awards |
BAFTA Award for Best Film 2005 The Aviator NBR Award for Best Director 2004 Collateral Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries 1990 Drug Wars: The Camarena Story Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special 1979 The Jericho Mile |
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television.
For his work, he has received nominations from international organizations and juries, including those at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cannes and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His most acclaimed works are the crime film Heat (1995) and the docudrama The Insider (1999).
Total Film ranked Mann No. 28 on its list of the 100 Greatest Directors Ever,Sight and Sound ranked him No. 5 on their list of the 10 Best Directors of the Last 25 Years, and Entertainment Weekly ranked Mann No. 8 on their 25 Greatest Active Film Directors list.
Mann was born on February 5, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, of Jewish ancestry, the son of grocers Esther and Jack Mann.
He received a B.A. in English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he developed interests in history, philosophy and architecture. It was at this time that he saw Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and fell in love with movies. In a recent L.A. Weekly interview, he describes the film's impact on him: "It said to my whole generation of filmmakers that you could make an individual statement of high integrity and have that film be successfully seen by a mass audience all at the same time. In other words, you didn't have to be making Seven Brides for Seven Brothers if you wanted to work in the mainstream film industry, or be reduced to niche filmmaking if you wanted to be serious about cinema. So that's what Kubrick meant, aside from the fact that Strangelove was a revelation." His daughter Ami Canaan Mann is also a film director and producer.
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