Tony Kushner
Nascimento : 1956-07-16, New York City, New York, USA
História
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
Crescendo no Arizona pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, o jovem Sammy Fabelman aspira a se tornar um cineasta ao atingir a adolescência, mas logo descobre um segredo de família devastador e explora como o poder dos filmes pode ajudá-lo a ver a verdade.
Producer
Crescendo no Arizona pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, o jovem Sammy Fabelman aspira a se tornar um cineasta ao atingir a adolescência, mas logo descobre um segredo de família devastador e explora como o poder dos filmes pode ajudá-lo a ver a verdade.
Self
Conta a clássica história de rivalidade e amor juvenil na cidade de Nova York em 1957.
Executive Producer
Dois jovens de gangues rivais de Nova York se apaixonam, mas as tensões entre seus respectivos amigos se transformam em tragédia. Remake do filme de 1961.
Screenplay
Dois jovens de gangues rivais de Nova York se apaixonam, mas as tensões entre seus respectivos amigos se transformam em tragédia. Remake do filme de 1961.
Self
Uma imersão no filme. Apresentando entrevistas e discussões com membros do elenco e da equipe técnica, atores, artistas e jornalistas porto-riquenhos sobre o papel que esta história teve em suas vidas.
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
Conheça a história de Roy Cohn, o advogado que ajudou a mandar seus avós, Julius e Ethel Rosenberg, para a cadeira elétrica.
Self
A cineasta Rebecca Miller apresenta um retrato de seu pai, o dramaturgo americano Arthur Miller.
Self
A documentarista Susan Lacy relata a notável carreira do diretor de cinema Steven Spielberg. Neste documentário original da HBO, Spielberg sai de trás das câmeras para falar sobre suas influencias e motivações, além de compartilhar histórias pouco conhecidas sobre alguns de seus filmes mais famosos.
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
A Dra. Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) é uma renomada professora de linguistica. Aos poucos, ela começa a esquecer certas palavras e se perder pelas ruas de Manhattan. Ela é diagnosticada com Alzheimer. A doença coloca em prova a força de sua família. Enquanto a relação de Alice com o marido John (Alec Baldwin) se fragiliza, ela e a filha Lydia (Kristen Stewart) se aproximam.
Self
Documentary on the making of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (2012).
Screenplay
O filme se passa durante a Guerra Civil norte-americana, que acabou com a vitória do Norte. Ao mesmo tempo em que se preocupava com o conflito, o o 16º presidente norte-americano, Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis), travava uma batalha ainda mais difícil em Washington. Ao lado de seus colegas de partido, ele tentava passar uma emenda à Constituição dos Estados Unidos que acabava com a escravidão.
Self
Outrage é um documentário de 2009 dirigido por Kirby Dick sobre políticos gays norte-americanos no armário e que patrocinam legislação antigay. Esses políticos incluem o governador da Flórida, Charlie Crist, o congressista pela Califórnia David Dreier, o ex-prefeito de Nova Iorque, Ed Koch, e o ex-congressista pela Louisiana, Jim McCrery. O filme também apresenta entrevistas com os políticos abertamente gays Barney Frank, Jim McGreevey, e Tammy Baldwin.
Quando perguntado sobre a ética em revelar a orientação sexual de políticos que optaram em preservar suas vidas particulares, Dick respondeu dizendo "nosso filme toma a posição de não visar os políticos que estão no armário mas não votam contra os gays".
O filme foi produzido por Chain Camera Pictures, a produtora co-fundada por Kirby Dick. O Sundance Institute deu fundos para a produção do filme.
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
O governo israelense envia uma missão secreta de retaliação para matar onze pessoas ao redor do mundo depois que terroristas palestinos assassinam onze atletas israelenses nas Olimpíadas de Munique em 1972.
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.
