Tony Kushner
Nacimiento : 1956-07-16, New York City, New York, USA
Historia
Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage he's most known for his seminal work Angels in America which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.
Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie.
In 2003 he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical Caroline, or Change which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The 2021 Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change earned Kushner a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, making Kushner among the few playwrights in history nominated for all four major American entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.
He has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), West Side Story (2021), and The Fabelmans (2022), the former two earning him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Writer
Al crecer en la era de Arizona posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un niño llamado Sammy Fabelman descubre un secreto familiar devastador y explora cómo el poder de las películas puede ayudarlo a ver la verdad. Película semiautobiográfica sobre la infancia y juventud de Steven Spielberg.
Producer
Al crecer en la era de Arizona posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un niño llamado Sammy Fabelman descubre un secreto familiar devastador y explora cómo el poder de las películas puede ayudarlo a ver la verdad. Película semiautobiográfica sobre la infancia y juventud de Steven Spielberg.
Self
Rejoice in the astonishing all-new footage of Spielberg at work in documentary filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau’s revealing The Stories of West Side Story. Composed of Opening, Prologue, Sharks & Jets, Dance at the Gym, The Romance, America, Gee, Officer Krupke, Cool, From Quintet to the Rumble, I Feel Pretty, Somewhere, Finale, and Tribute.
Executive Producer
Los adolescentes Tony y María, a pesar de tener afiliaciones con pandillas callejeras rivales, los Jets y los Sharks, se enamoran en la ciudad de Nueva York en la década de los 50. Nueva versión del legendario musical 'West Side Story', a su vez adaptación de una famosa obra de teatro de Broadway, que modernizaba la historia de 'Romeo y Julieta', de Shakespeare.
Screenplay
Los adolescentes Tony y María, a pesar de tener afiliaciones con pandillas callejeras rivales, los Jets y los Sharks, se enamoran en la ciudad de Nueva York en la década de los 50. Nueva versión del legendario musical 'West Side Story', a su vez adaptación de una famosa obra de teatro de Broadway, que modernizaba la historia de 'Romeo y Julieta', de Shakespeare.
Self
Incredible video behind-the-scenes with the stars, Steven Spielberg, and see one of the last interviews with the legendary Stephen Sondheim.
Writer
Earning a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award in 1993, subsequently adapted for television and opera, "Angels in America" stages American society of the Reagan years, mixing intimate stories and political events, realism and the fantastical while following the dark narrative thread of the AIDS epidemic. This was the disease that, in 1986, ended the life of Roy Cohn, an unscrupulous lawyer who was a disciple of McCarthy, a homophobe, racist, “bully, coward and victim” as described on the Washington Memorial Quilt. Kushner makes him one of the twenty-three characters – played by eight actors – of his Gay Fantasia on National Themes divided into two parts: "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika". The setting is New York between 1985 and 1990. The Republicans are in power, the Chernobyl catastrophe is imminent, the collapse of the Berlin Wall is about to overturn cold war politics and HIV, still synonymous with certain death, is reduced to the definition of homosexual cancer.
Writer
An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.
Self
Matón. Cobarde. Víctima. La historia de Roy Cohn ofrece una mirada inquebrantable al infame abogado que procesó a los abuelos de Ivy Meeropol, Julius y Ethel Rosenberg, y luego argumentó persuasivamente su ejecución en lo que se conoció como el caso de los "espías atómicos". Dirigida por Ivy Meeropol, la película examina la vida de Cohn como asesor principal del senador Joseph McCarthy a fines de la década de 1950 y luego durante la década de 1980, cuando se convirtió en un amante de la Casa Blanca Reagan, un activista anti homosexualidad rabiosa y mentor político de Donald J. Trump antes de morir de SIDA en 1986. La película se basa en un extenso material de archivo recién descubierto, grabado en el apogeo de la carrera de Cohn como corredor de poder en el mundo rudo y caído de los negocios y la política de la ciudad de Nueva York.
Self
La película de Rebecca Miller es un retrato de su padre, su época y sus observaciones, construido alrededor de entrevistas improvisadas grabadas en el hogar familiar durante años.
Self
Documental de HBO sobre la carrera de Steven Spielberg, con entrevistas a amigos y colaboradores del director, que explican sus métodos de trabajo, los secretos de su éxito y repasan algunas de sus películas más icónicas.
Theatre Play
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This new staging of Tony Kushner's multi-award winning two-part play, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott.
Theatre Play
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.
With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.
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A fascinating and unlikely reinvention story, The Royal Road simultaneously explores cinematic spiritual channeling, the conquest and colonization of Mexico and the American Southwest, fading historical Californian urban landscapes, and the passions found in butch identity to achieve an achingly beautiful and poetic defense of remembering. Probing roads from El Camino Real, to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, to the road right outside the front door, Olson crafts a deeply intelligent and transcending observation of the human condition that reaches for redemption in the embrace of history, nostalgia, mindfulness, and sheer beauty. If you give yourself over to it, it will crack you wide open.
Thanks
Alice Howland, felizmente casada con tres hijos ya adultos, es una reconocida profesora de lingüística que comienza a olvidarse de las palabras. Luego de recibir un diagnóstico devastador, Alice y su familia ponen a prueba sus vínculos.
Self
Documentary on the making of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (2012).
Screenplay
En 1865, mientras la Guerra Civil Americana se acerca a su fin, el presidente Abraham Lincoln propone una enmienda que prohíba la esclavitud en los Estados Unidos. Sin embargo esto plantea un gran dilema: si la paz llega antes de que se apruebe la enmienda, el Sur tendrá poder para rechazarla y mantener la esclavitud; si la paz llega después, decenas de miles de personas seguirán muriendo en el frente. En una carrera contrarreloj para conseguir los votos necesarios, Lincoln se enfrenta a la mayor crisis de conciencia de su vida.
Self
An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the US.
Self
Documental que muestra lo que ocurre entre bastidores en el Public Theater de Nueva York durante la representación de la obra de Bertolt Brecht "Madre Coraje". (FILMAFFINITY)
Self
Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art.
Self
Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.
Screenplay
Basada en hechos reales. Tras el asesinato de varios atletas israelíes por el grupo terrorista "Septiembre negro" en los Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich de 1972, un agente especial del Mossad tuvo que ejecutar una misión altamente secreta: asesinar a los responsables.
Self - Playwright, "Angels in America"
Documentary about the first gay prom in America, that took place in West Hollywood, promoted by students of the EAGLES center, an alternative high school.
Backstage documentary chronicling the Original Broadway Production of “Angels in America.”
Executive Producer
Feature adaptation of ‘Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra’ podcast.
Writer
En el siglo XIX, un niño judío en Bolonia (Italia) es separado de su familia católica tras haber sido bautizado en secreto, según la confesión de una sirvienta.
Writer
In the 1920s, Dr. Perry Baird, who was born in Texas and educated at Harvard, begins his career ascent in the field of medicine.
