1. David Andrew Leo Fincher was born on August 28,1962 and is an American filmmaker.
55 Facts About David Fincher
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David Fincher has received four Primetime Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
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David Fincher directed numerous music videos for the company, including Madonna's "Express Yourself" in 1989 and "Vogue" in 1990, both of which won him the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction.
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David Fincher made his feature film debut with Alien 3 and gained his breakthrough with Seven.
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David Fincher has since directed The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl, and The Killer.
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David Fincher received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director for the dramas The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, and Mank.
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David Andrew Leo Fincher was born in Denver on August 28,1962.
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David Fincher's mother, Claire Mae, was a mental health nurse from South Dakota who worked in drug addiction programs.
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David Fincher's father, Howard Kelly "Jack" Fincher, was an author from Oklahoma who worked as a reporter and bureau chief for Life magazine.
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When David Fincher was two years old, the family moved to San Anselmo, California, where he counted filmmaker George Lucas among his neighbors.
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David Fincher became fascinated with filmmaking at the age of eight and began making films on an 8mm camera.
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David Fincher directed plays and designed sets and lighting after school, was a non-union projectionist at Varsity Theatre, and worked as a production assistant at the KOBI news station in Medford.
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David Fincher supported himself by working as a busboy, dishwasher, and fry cook.
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David Fincher directed TV commercials for many companies including Levi's, Converse, Nike, Pepsi, Revlon, Sony, Coca-Cola and Chanel, although he loathed doing them.
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Between 1984 and 1993, David Fincher was credited as a director for 53 music videos.
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David Fincher referred to the production of music videos as his own "film school", in which he learned how to work efficiently within a small budget and time frame.
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In 1990,20th Century Fox hired David Fincher to replace Vincent Ward as the director for the science-fiction horror Alien 3, his film directorial debut.
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David Fincher briefly retreated to directing commercials and music videos, including the video for the song "Love Is Strong" by the Rolling Stones in 1994, which won the Grammy Award for Best Music Video.
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Shortly, David Fincher decided to make a foray back into film.
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David Fincher read Andrew Kevin Walker's original screenplay for Seven, which had been revised by Jeremiah Chechik, the director attached to the project at one point.
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David Fincher expressed no interest in directing the revised version, so New Line Cinema agreed to keep the original ending.
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David Fincher hired Seven screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker to contribute and polish the script.
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In 2001, David Fincher served as an executive producer for the first season of The Hire, a series of short films to promote BMW automobiles.
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Five years after Panic Room, David Fincher returned on March 2,2007, with Zodiac, a thriller based on Robert Graysmith's books about the search for the Zodiac, a real life serial murderer who terrorized communities between the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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David Fincher first learned of the project after being approached by producer Brad Fischer; he was intrigued by the story due to his childhood personal experience.
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In 2008, Fincher was attached to a film adaptation of the science-fiction novel, Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke Fincher said the film is unlikely to go ahead due to problems with the script.
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David Fincher's next project was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's eponymous 1923 short story, about a man who is born as a seventy-year-old baby and ages in reverse.
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David Fincher directed the 2010 film The Social Network, a biographical drama about Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg and his legal battles.
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In 2011, David Fincher followed the success of The Social Network with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a psychological thriller based on the novel by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.
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Scott adds, "Mr David Fincher creates a persuasive ambience of political menace and moral despair".
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In 2012, David Fincher signed a first look deal with Regency Enterprises.
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In 2013, David Fincher served as an executive producer for the Netflix television series House of Cards, a political thriller about a Congressman's quest for revenge, of which he directed the first two episodes.
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The series received positive reviews, earning nine Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series; David Fincher won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the first episode.
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David Fincher directed Gone Girl, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel of the same name, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.
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David Fincher even met with Flynn to discuss his interest in the project before a director was selected.
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Between 2016 and 2019, David Fincher directed, produced and served as showrunner for another series, Mindhunter, starring Holt McCallany and Jonathan Groff.
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David Fincher has expressed interest in eventually making a third season of Mindhunter, which was put on indefinite hold in 2020.
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Producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner said that David Fincher would begin directing it in June 2019.
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In July 2019, Fincher signed on to direct Mank, a biopic about Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz, based on a screenplay written by his late father, Jack, with Gary Oldman portraying Mankiewicz.
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David Fincher served as an executive producer on a series titled Voir for Netflix.
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In 2024, it was reported that David Fincher was interested in working on an American adaptation of the popular Korean series Squid Game and was developing it alongside a Chinatown prequel miniseries that he co-wrote with the late Robert Towne.
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David Fincher has listed filmmakers George Roy Hill, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Alan J Pakula, Ridley Scott, and Martin Scorsese as his major influences.
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David Fincher suggested that his film Panic Room is a combination of Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
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David Fincher has cited graphic designer Saul Bass as an inspiration for his films' title sequences; Bass designed many such sequences for prominent directors, including Hitchcock and Kubrick.
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When working with actors, David Fincher is known to demand a grueling series of takes to capture a scene perfectly.
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Rooney Mara had to endure 99 takes for a scene in The Social Network and said that David Fincher enjoys challenging people.
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David Fincher prefers shooting with Red digital cameras, under natural or pre-existing light conditions rather than using elaborate lighting setups.
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David Fincher is known to use computer-generated imagery, which is mostly unnoticeable to the viewer.
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Similarly, in his music videos, David Fincher appreciated that the visuals should enhance the listening experience.
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David Fincher would cut around the vocals, and let the choreography finish before cutting the shot.
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David Fincher has explored themes of martyrdom, alienation, and dehumanization of both culture and society.
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Many years before the duo worked with David Fincher, he arranged for a remix of the Nine Inch Nails song "Closer" to play over the opening credits of Seven.
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David Fincher has worked with film editor Angus Wall since 1988.
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David Fincher received three Academy Award for Best Director nominations for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, and Mank.
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David Fincher won both the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for The Social Network.