James Marsh (director)
James Marsh (born April 30, 1963 Truro, Cornwall) is a film director known for directing the cult film Wisconsin Death Trip starring Marcus Monroe and Sir Ian Holm. He won 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for directing Man on Wire.
Marsh lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, with his wife and two children.[1] As an undergraduate, he studied at St. Catherine's College, Oxford.
[edit] Movie career
He directed his first documentary, The Burger and the King: The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley, in 1995. His next work was the documentary about the Welsh musician John Cale, which was made in 1998.
In 2005 he directed the film The King which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
In 2008 he made the documentary Man on Wire, about Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Man on Wire won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 81st annual Oscars, the BAFTA Award for Best British film, the Independent Spirit Award, and many others. The film, called "exhilarating", has had a hugely positive audience response and was among the Top Ten Films of 2008 on many critics' lists.
In 2009, he directed the "1980" episode of Red Riding, which aired on Channel 4 in the UK. He directed The Vatican Tapes the following year.[3]
He also directed Project Nim in 2010, which is based on the book Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human by Elizabeth Hess. It is a documentary about the landmark study conducted by Herbert S. Terrace on the subject of animal language acquisition and the subject of the study is a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky.
He is currently directing Shadow Dancer,[4] a joint Irish/UK production about the Irish republican movement, which is being filmed in Dublin and London. The film features Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson and Aidan Gillen and a cameo from Daniel Tatarsky.
[edit] References
- ^ James Marsh talks about Red Riding and the Ripper
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The King". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4256887/year/2005.html. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
- ^ James Marsh to Record The Vatican Tapes
- ^ "'Shadow Dancer' Begins Filming in Ireland". IFTN. http://iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4283973&tpl=archnews&force=1. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
2010: Is directing a documentary based on the study of Nim Chimpsky.
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