Tony Kushner
出生 : 1956-07-16, New York City, New York, USA
略歴
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
初めて映画館を訪れて以来、映画に夢中になった少年サミー・フェイブルマンは、母親から8ミリカメラをプレゼントされる。家族や仲間たちと過ごす日々のなか、人生の一瞬一瞬を探求し、夢を追い求めていくサミー。母親はそんな彼の夢を支えてくれるが、父親はその夢を単なる趣味としか見なさない。サミーはそんな両親の間で葛藤しながら、さまざまな人々との出会いを通じて成長していく。
Producer
初めて映画館を訪れて以来、映画に夢中になった少年サミー・フェイブルマンは、母親から8ミリカメラをプレゼントされる。家族や仲間たちと過ごす日々のなか、人生の一瞬一瞬を探求し、夢を追い求めていくサミー。母親はそんな彼の夢を支えてくれるが、父親はその夢を単なる趣味としか見なさない。サミーはそんな両親の間で葛藤しながら、さまざまな人々との出会いを通じて成長していく。
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
夢や成功を求め、多くの移民たちが暮らすニューヨークのウエスト・サイド。 だが、貧困や差別に不満を募らせた若者たちは同胞の仲間と結束し、各チームの対立は激化していった。 ある日、プエルトリコ系移民で構成された“シャークス”のリーダーを兄に持つマリアは、対立するヨーロッパ系移民“ジェッツ”の元リーダーのトニーと出会い、一瞬で惹かれあう。この禁断の愛が、多くの人々の運命を変えていくことも知らずに…。
Screenplay
夢や成功を求め、多くの移民たちが暮らすニューヨークのウエスト・サイド。 だが、貧困や差別に不満を募らせた若者たちは同胞の仲間と結束し、各チームの対立は激化していった。 ある日、プエルトリコ系移民で構成された“シャークス”のリーダーを兄に持つマリアは、対立するヨーロッパ系移民“ジェッツ”の元リーダーのトニーと出会い、一瞬で惹かれあう。この禁断の愛が、多くの人々の運命を変えていくことも知らずに…。
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
Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s top counsel during investigations into Communist activities in the 1950s, Cohn is also known for being Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, fixer and mentor. Focusing on key periods of his life, and drawing on extensive, newly unearthed archival material, a new documentary on Cohn’s life will debut on HBO in 2019.
Self
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which continue to move audiences around the world today. He also made headlines for being targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee at the height of the McCarthy Era and entering into a tumultuous marriage with Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. Told from the unique perspective of his daughter, filmmaker Rebecca Miller, Arthur Miller: Writer is an illuminating portrait that combines interviews spanning decades and a wealth of personal archival material, and provides new insights into Miller’s life as an artist and exploring his character in all its complexity.
Self
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
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
50歳のアリスは、まさに人生の充実期を迎えていた。高名な言語学者として敬われ、教鞭をとるニューヨークのコロンビア大学でも、学生たちから絶大な人気を集めていた。夫のジョンは変わらぬ愛情にあふれ、法科大学を卒業した長女のアナと医学院生の長男のトムにも何の不安もなかった。唯一の心配は、ロスで女優を目指す次女のリディアだけだった。ところが、そんなアリスにまさかの運命が降りかかる。物忘れが頻繁に起こるようになって診察を受けた結果、若年性アルツハイマー病だと宣告されたのだ。しかも、子供たちに50%の確率で遺伝をしてしまう家族性なのだ。アリスの家族に突き付けられた苦難…。アリスは気丈に闘うが、今の医学では記憶を失うことは止められない。ある日、アリスはパソコンに自分が残した映像を発見する。かつての自分から自分への“アリスのままで”いるためのメッセージとは──？
Self
Documentary on the making of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (2012).
Screenplay
エイブラハム・リンカーンが、大統領に再選された1865年。アメリカを内戦状態に追い込んだ南北戦争は4年目に突入したが、彼は奴隷制度を永遠に葬り去る合衆国憲法修正第13条を下院議会で批准させるまでは戦いを終わらせないという強い決意があった。そのためにも、国務長官ウィリアム・スワードらと共に憲法修正に必要な票を獲得するための議会工作に乗り出す。そんな中、学生だった長男ロバートが北軍へと入隊し……。＜スティーヴン・スピルバーグによる、第16代アメリカ合衆国大統領エイブラハム・リンカーンの伝記ドラマ。奴隷制の廃止と禁止を強固なものにし、泥沼化した南北戦争を終結させるため、憲法の修正に挑むリンカーンの戦いを重厚なタッチで映し出していく。ダニエル・デイ=ルイスがリンカーンにふんし、国と人民の未来をめぐる理想と現実に苦悩する彼の胸中を見事に体現。ジョセフ・ゴードン=レヴィットら、脇を固める実力派の妙演も見逃せない。＞
Self
An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the US.
Self
A behind-the-scenes look at The Public Theater's production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage" that examines the playwright's life and ideas.
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
ミュンヘン・オリンピックの最中、イスラエル選手団が何者かに襲われた。イスラエル側はテロリストの犯行とみなし、復讐を計画する。暗殺チームのリーダーに任命されたアヴナーは、11人の標的を次々に消していくが……。＜スティーヴン・スピルバーグ監督が、1972年のミュンヘン・オリンピックで実際に起きた事件の真相を、事件に関わった人々のコメントや、史実に基づいて映画化した衝撃の問題作。主演にエリック・バナやダニエル・クレイグら実力派俳優が名を連ねるほか、製作陣にはピューリツァー賞やオスカー受賞者などが顔を揃え、作品の質を高めている。国家への忠誠心や家族への愛を描きつつ、世界平和の真意を問うストーリー展開が見事。＞
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
The story of a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy in 1858 who, having been secretly baptized, is forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents' struggle to free their son becomes part of a larger political battle that pits the Papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
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.
