35 Facts About Noah Baumbach

Noah Baumbach was born on September 3,1969 and is an American filmmaker.

Noah Baumbach is known for making light comedies set in New York City and his works are inspired by filmmakers such as Woody Allen and Whit Stillman.

Noah Baumbach first collaborated with Gerwig on Greenberg and their collaborations continued with Frances Ha, Mistress America, White Noise, and Barbie.

Noah Baumbach is known for co-writing with Wes Anderson on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Fantastic Mr Fox.

Noah Baumbach was born on September 3,1969, in Brooklyn, New York City.

Noah Baumbach's father, Jonathan Baumbach, was an author of experimental fiction and the co-founder of the publishing house Fiction Collective, taught at Stanford University and Brooklyn College, and was a film critic for Partisan Review.

Noah Baumbach's mother, Georgia Brown, was a film critic for The Village Voice who wrote fiction.

Noah Baumbach's parents divorced during his adolescence, which served as inspiration for his 2005 film The Squid and the Whale.

Noah Baumbach has three siblings, two of whom are from his father's previous marriage.

Noah Baumbach grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and from a young age he was determined to become a professional filmmaker.

Noah Baumbach made his writing and directing debut in 1995 with Kicking and Screaming, a comedy about four young men who graduate from college and refuse to move on with their lives.

Noah Baumbach then co-wrote and directed the New York-set comedy of manners Highball.

In 2004, Noah Baumbach collaborated with screenwriter and director Wes Anderson, co-writing with Anderson, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Noah Baumbach wrote and directed the 2007 dramedy Margot at the Wedding, starring his then wife, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, and John Turturro.

Noah Baumbach helped to write and direct the short films Clearing the Air and New York Underground which aired on Saturday Night Live.

Noah Baumbach co-wrote the screenplay for the 2009 film version of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox with Wes Anderson, who directed it using stop-motion technology.

In 2012, Noah Baumbach directed the comedic drama Frances Ha, which he cowrote with Greta Gerwig, who starred.

Noah Baumbach filmed Frances Ha with his cinematographer Sam Levy digitally and in black-and-white, the latter to emulate in part collaborations by Woody Allen and his cinematographer Gordon Willis, in films like Manhattan.

Noah Baumbach co-wrote a screenplay for the animated film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.

Noah Baumbach worked on HBO's adaptation of the Jonathan Franzen novel The Corrections, but the pilot was never completed and HBO passed on the project.

Noah Baumbach wrote and directed the 2014 comedy-drama While We're Young, starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried.

Noah Baumbach directed and cowrote the 2015 comedy Mistress America, starring Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke.

In 2023, Noah Baumbach again collaborated with Gerwig, co-writing the screenplay for her film Barbie starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and America Ferrera.

Noah Baumbach's upcoming film Jay Kelly, which is his fourth from Netflix, is described as a "coming-of-age story about adults".

Noah Baumbach co-wrote the film with actress Emily Mortimer and the film will be produced by David Heyman and Amy Pascal.

Noah Baumbach noted that comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen was "an obvious influence", stating, "He was the single biggest pop culture influence on me".

Noah Baumbach has cited the films Manhattan, Zelig, and Broadway Danny Rose as influences on his work.

Noah Baumbach has cited Ernst Lubitsch, Max Ophuls, Jean Renoir, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Spike Lee, Whit Stillman, Steven Spielberg, as well as the screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s, and the films of the French New Wave as influences.

Noah Baumbach is a fan of the "beautiful" music of electronic acts New Order and OMD, and sought to "do something that evoked" those bands on the soundtrack of Mistress America.

Noah Baumbach has cited David Bowie and Paul McCartney, and the film scores of Tangerine Dream and Georges Delerue, as important to him.

Noah Baumbach met actress Jennifer Jason Leigh in 2001 while she was starring on Broadway in Proof.

Noah Baumbach's brother Nico is a film theorist and associate professor at Columbia University's Center for Comparative Media.

Noah Baumbach has been nominated for four Academy Awards for the films The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story, and Barbie.

Noah Baumbach has received nominations from the Golden Globe Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Critics Choice Movie Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Writers Guild of America Awards.

Noah Baumbach has been nominated for five Independent Spirit Film Awards and received two wins.