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      Anna Boden

      Anna Boden

      Highest Rated: 92% Sugar (2008)

      Lowest Rated: 28% Naked Singularity (2021)

      Birthday: Oct 20, 1979

      Birthplace: Newton, Massachusetts, USA

      Born in Massachusetts, Anna Boden grew up with a love for movies. She took that fascination with the medium to college, when she attended Columbia University to study film. It was at Columbia that her eventual career would take shape. She met Ryan Fleck, an NYU Tisch student with a similar interest in the filmmaking. The pair hit it off, started dating, and more importantly, started making shorts and movies together. Their first collaborative project was "Have You Seen This Man?" (2003), a documentary short that they co-directed. Around that same time, the film school graduates were crafting their first feature-length script. To raise money and financing for the full-length film, they made "Gowanus, Brooklyn" (2004), a short film that made its way to the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Unfortunately, the duo weren't successful in their goal right away. It took them nearly two more years to raise the money to make "Half Nelson" (2006), their Ryan Gosling-starring feature debut. "Half Nelson" was a critical darling, as Boden and Fleck made a splash at award shows with the film. Gosling even received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his work in their film. Their next work was "Sugar" (2008), a film about a young Dominican who immigrates to America to play baseball. While not as big of a hit as their previous work, "Sugar" once again drew critical and award buzz. Boden and Fleck worked with a studio for the first time next, adapting "It's Kind of a Funny Story" (2010) from its young adult book origins into a coming-of-age comedy starring Zach Galifanakis. Following up on the relative success of "It's Kind of a Funny Story," the pair took five years to produce their next film. That film, "Mississippi Grind" (2015), took them back to the path they carved out with "Half Nelson" and "Sugar," though this time they had a much a bigger profile. "Mississippi Grind" starred Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendolsohn as two gamblers with a penchant for addiction and superstition.

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      CAPTAIN MARVEL, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR ANNA BODEN, BRIE LARSON, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, DIRECTOR RYAN FLECK, ON SET, 2019. PH: CHUCK ZLOTNICK/© WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/© MARVEL SUGAR, from left: director Ryan Fleck, director Anna Boden, Algenis Perez Soto, on set, 2008. ©Sony Pictures Classics SUGAR, from left: co-directors Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Algenis Perez Soto, on set, 2008. ©Sony Pictures Classics CAPTAIN MARVEL, FROM LEFT: JUDE LAW, LEE PACE, DIRECTOR ANNA BODEN, 2019. PH: CHUCK ZLOTNICK/© WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/© MARVEL STUDIOS CAPTAIN MARVEL, BACKGROUND AT CENTER, WEARING GLASSES: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JONATHAN SCHWARTZ; BACKGROUND AT RIGHT: VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR CHRISTOPHER TOWNSEND; FOREGROUND AT RIGHT: DIRECTOR ANNA BODEN, ON SET, 2019. PH: CHUCK ZLOTNICK/© WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/© MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR RYAN FLECK, DIRECTOR ANNA BODEN, BRIE LARSON, ON SET, ON SET, 2019. PH: CHUCK ZLOTNICK/© WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/© MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR ANNA BODEN, BRIE LARSON, ON SET, 2019. PH: CHUCK ZLOTNICK/© WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/© MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR ANNA BODEN, DIRECTOR RYAN FLECK, LASHANA LYNCH, BRIE LARSON, ON SET, 2019. PH: CHUCK ZLOTNICK/© WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/© MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR ANNA BODEN, BRIE LARSON, ON SET, 2019. PH: CHUCK ZLOTNICK/© WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/© MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR RYAN FLECK, BEN MENDELSOHN, DIRECTOR ANNA BODEN, ON SET, 2019. PH: CHUCK ZLOTNICK/© WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/© MARVEL STUDIOS CAPTAIN MARVEL, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR ANNA BODEN, DIRECTOR RYAN FLECK, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ON SET, 2019. PH: CHUCK ZLOTNICK/© WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/© MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR ANNA BODEN, DIRECTOR RYAN FLECK, BEN MENDELSOHN IN COSTUME AS TALOS, ON SET, 2019. PH: CHUCK ZLOTNICK/© WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/© MARVEL SUGAR, from left: director Anna Boden, director Ryan Fleck, on set, 2008. ©Sony Pictures Classics SUGAR, from left: directors Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, on set, 2008. ©Sony Pictures Classics

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      67% No Score Yet Freaky Tales Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      - 2024
      28% 31% Naked Singularity Executive Producer $3.0K 2021
      79% 45% Captain Marvel Director,
      Screenwriter
      $426.8M 2019
      91% 55% Mississippi Grind Director,
      Screenwriter
      $129.7K 2015
      58% 65% It's Kind of a Funny Story Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Film Editing
      $6.4M 2010
      79% 60% Children of Invention Film Editing - 2009
      92% 79% Sugar Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Executive Producer,
      Film Editing
      $1.1M 2008
      91% 82% Half Nelson Writer,
      Producer
      $2.7M 2006
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Windowbreaker Film Editing - 2006
      83% No Score Yet Young Rebels Director - 2005

      TV

      Credit
      85% 70% Masters of the Air Director 2024
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter Guest 2020
      96% 69% Mrs. America Executive Producer,
      Director
      2020
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Call With Carson Daly Guest 2019
      88% 55% Room 104 Director,
      Writer
      2017