John Whitney Stillman was born on January 25,1952 and is an American writer-director and actor known for his 1990 film Metropolitan, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
16 Facts About Whit Stillman
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Whit Stillman attended the Collegiate School, Potomac School, and Millbrook School, and then studied history at Harvard University, where he wrote for The Harvard Crimson.
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Whit Stillman has subsequently distanced himself from his work for the Spectator, stating that he now hates "to be drawn into ideological debates" and prefers to remain "apolitical".
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Whit Stillman was introduced to some film producers from Madrid and persuaded them that he could sell their films to Spanish-language television in the US Whit Stillman worked for the next few years in Madrid and Barcelona as a sales agent for directors Fernando Trueba and Fernando Colomo, and sometimes acted in their films, usually playing comic Americans, as in Trueba's film Sal Gorda.
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Whit Stillman wrote the screenplay for Metropolitan between 1984 and 1988 while running an illustration agency in New York, and financed the film by selling the insider rights to his apartment and with the contributions of friends and relatives.
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Whit Stillman won Best First Feature at the 6th Independent Spirit Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1991 for Best Original Screenplay.
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Whit Stillman won the 1990 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best New Director.
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Whit Stillman has described the film as An Officer and a Gentleman, but with the title referring to two men rather than one.
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In 2000 Whit Stillman published a novelization of the film, titled The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards.
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Whit Stillman stated in 2006 that he was working on several unfinished scripts.
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In 2014 Whit Stillman wrote and directed the pilot episode of the TV series The Cosmopolitans for Amazon Studios on August 28,2014 the pilot was available and Amazon Prime users could watch the pilot episode and vote to pick it up for a full series.
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On July 11,2016, Tom Grater reported that Whit Stillman was commissioned by Amazon to write six new scripts to continue his original pilot film for The Cosmopolitans.
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Whit Stillman wrote and directed three comedies of manners released in the 1990s: Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco ; he published a novel based on the last of these films.
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Whit Stillman himself is aware of that possibility the whole time, and bastes his entire worldview in a rueful, ironic-romantic glaze.
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Whit Stillman filmed Metropolitan for about $250,000, according to Stillman, with a box-office return of about $3 million.
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Whit Stillman himself oversaw the digital transfers of the films and recorded audio commentaries along with members of the casts and crews.