1. William Todd Field was born on February 24,1964 and is an American filmmaker and actor.
17 Facts About Todd Field
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Todd Field is known for directing In the Bedroom, Little Children, and Tar, which were nominated for a combined fourteen Academy Awards.
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Todd Field co-created the concept for bubble gum brand Big League Chew.
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Todd Field was born in Pomona, California, where his family ran a poultry farm.
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When Todd Field turned two, his family moved to Portland, Oregon, where his father went to work as a salesman, and his mother became a school librarian.
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Todd Field first appeared in motion pictures after Woody Allen cast him in Radio Days, and went on to work with filmmakers such as Stanley Kubrick, Victor Nunez, and Carl Franklin.
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Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times summarized Todd Field's acting career in his review of Broken Vessels :.
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Franklin and Nunez, both AFI alumni, encouraged Todd Field to enroll as a Directing Fellow at the AFI Conservatory, which he did in 1992.
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Todd Field began his filmmaking career in 2001 when he wrote and directed In the Bedroom, a film based on Andre Dubus's short story "Killings".
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Rathbun and Spacek did some of the set design and Todd Field handled the camera himself on many of the shots.
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Todd Field has the magnificent obsession of the natural-born filmmaker.
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However, during this period Todd Field did write a number of film and television projects that never came to fruition, including adaptations of the novels Blood Meridian, Beautiful Ruins and Purity.
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Todd Field worked for almost a decade on a film adaptation of the 2010 Boston Teran novel The Creed of Violence, set during the Mexican Revolution, which at different times was set to star Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale and Daniel Craig.
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Over those same years Todd Field worked in advertising, directing spots for such brands as Xbox, Captain Morgan, Corona, BMW, NASCAR and GE.
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Todd Field was named Best Director of the Year by the London Film Critics' Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and his script named Best Original Screenplay.
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Paul Thomas Anderson praised Todd Field when presenting him with his Director Medallion at the 75th annual DGA Awards saying,.
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On Josh Olson and Joe Dante's The Movies That Made Me podcast, Todd Field listed ten of his favorite films, which included Man with a Movie Camera, The Big Parade, The Servant, I Am Cuba, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Murmur of the Heart, Opening Night, The Meetings of Anna and No End.