William Todd Field was born on February 24,1964 and is an American filmmaker and former actor.
20 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 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 received his Master of Fine Arts from the AFI Conservatory.
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Todd Field has worked in varying capacities as an actor, director, producer, composer, screenwriter, and editor.
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Todd Field began making motion pictures after Woody Allen cast him in Radio Days.
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Todd Field went on to work with some of America's greatest filmmakers, including 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, which he did in 1992.
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Todd Field received the Satyajit Ray Award from the British Film Institute, and a Jury Prize from the Sundance Film Festival, and his short films were exhibited at various venues overseas and domestically at the Museum of Modern Art.
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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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Todd Field followed In the Bedroom with Little Children, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, including two for the actors: Kate Winslet and Jackie Earle Haley.
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In 2016, Todd Field worked on a planned television adaptation of the 2015 Jonathan Franzen novel Purity, which was to be a 20-hour limited series for Showtime.
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Tar was named Best Picture of the year by the London Film Critics' Circle with Todd Field being named Best Director of the Year and Blanchett Best Actress.
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Todd Field was named Best Director by The Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and his script Best Original Screenplay of the Year, as did the National Society of Film Critics.
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Todd Field's script is dazzling in its conversational flow, its insider dexterity, its perception of how power in the world actually works.
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Todd Field made a film which for some years was considered a very dirty word.