Peter Bogdanovich[a] ComSE (born July 30, 1939) is an American
director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian. Part of
the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, Bogdanovich's career started as
a film journalist until he got hired to work on Roger Corman's The
Wild Angels (1966). After the success of the film, he got a chance to
direct his own film Targets (1968), a critical success. He later
gained wider popularity for his critically acclaimed drama The Last
Picture Show (1971), which earned eight Oscar nominations including
Academy Award for Best Director.Following The Last Picture Show
success, he directed screwball comedy What's Up, Doc? (1972), which
was a major box office success and is considered to be one of the best
comedy films of all time and another critical and commercial success
Paper Moon (1973), which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best
Director nomination. His following three films have been all critical
and commercial failures; including Daisy Miller (1974). After a
three-year hiatus, he made a comeback with cult films Saint Jack
(1979) and They All Laughed (1981). After his girlfriend Dorothy
Stratten's murder, Bogdanovich took a four-year hiatus from filmmaking
and wrote a memoir on her death titled The Killing of the Unicorn
before making a comeback with Mask (1985), another critical and
commercial success. He later went on to direct films such as Noises
Off (1992), The Cat's Meow (2001) and She's Funny That Way (2014). As
an actor, he is known for his roles in HBO series The Sopranos and an
Orson Welles movie The Other Side of the Wind, which he also helped to
finish. He also received a Grammy Award for Best Music Film for
directing Tom Petty documentary Runnin' Down a Dream (2007).As an
accomplished film historian, he has directed documentaries such as
Directed by John Ford (1971) and The Great Buster (2018), and
published over ten books which some of them include in-depth
interviews with his friends such as Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.
Bogdanovich's works had been an influence on several filmmakers such
as Quentin Tarantino, Rian Johnson, David Fincher, Edgar Wright,
Safdie brothers, David O. Russell, Andy Muschietti, Wes Anderson, and
Noah Baumbach.Bogdanovich was born in Kingston, New York, the son of
Herma (née Robinson; 1918â€"1979) and Borislav Bogdanovich
(1899â€"1970), a Serbian painter and pianist. His Austrian-born mother
was Jewish (her family moved from Vienna to Zagreb, Yugoslavia in
1932); his father was a Serbian Orthodox Christian; the two arrived in
the U.S. in May 1939. He graduated from New York City's Collegiate
School in 1957 and studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory. He
is fluent in Serbian, having learned it before English.
director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian. Part of
the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, Bogdanovich's career started as
a film journalist until he got hired to work on Roger Corman's The
Wild Angels (1966). After the success of the film, he got a chance to
direct his own film Targets (1968), a critical success. He later
gained wider popularity for his critically acclaimed drama The Last
Picture Show (1971), which earned eight Oscar nominations including
Academy Award for Best Director.Following The Last Picture Show
success, he directed screwball comedy What's Up, Doc? (1972), which
was a major box office success and is considered to be one of the best
comedy films of all time and another critical and commercial success
Paper Moon (1973), which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best
Director nomination. His following three films have been all critical
and commercial failures; including Daisy Miller (1974). After a
three-year hiatus, he made a comeback with cult films Saint Jack
(1979) and They All Laughed (1981). After his girlfriend Dorothy
Stratten's murder, Bogdanovich took a four-year hiatus from filmmaking
and wrote a memoir on her death titled The Killing of the Unicorn
before making a comeback with Mask (1985), another critical and
commercial success. He later went on to direct films such as Noises
Off (1992), The Cat's Meow (2001) and She's Funny That Way (2014). As
an actor, he is known for his roles in HBO series The Sopranos and an
Orson Welles movie The Other Side of the Wind, which he also helped to
finish. He also received a Grammy Award for Best Music Film for
directing Tom Petty documentary Runnin' Down a Dream (2007).As an
accomplished film historian, he has directed documentaries such as
Directed by John Ford (1971) and The Great Buster (2018), and
published over ten books which some of them include in-depth
interviews with his friends such as Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.
Bogdanovich's works had been an influence on several filmmakers such
as Quentin Tarantino, Rian Johnson, David Fincher, Edgar Wright,
Safdie brothers, David O. Russell, Andy Muschietti, Wes Anderson, and
Noah Baumbach.Bogdanovich was born in Kingston, New York, the son of
Herma (née Robinson; 1918â€"1979) and Borislav Bogdanovich
(1899â€"1970), a Serbian painter and pianist. His Austrian-born mother
was Jewish (her family moved from Vienna to Zagreb, Yugoslavia in
1932); his father was a Serbian Orthodox Christian; the two arrived in
the U.S. in May 1939. He graduated from New York City's Collegiate
School in 1957 and studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory. He
is fluent in Serbian, having learned it before English.
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