Baz Luhrmann
Considered one of the most innovative filmmakers working at the turn of the 21st Century, Australian Baz Luhrmann earned that title after having completed only three of his unmistakably stylized, visual gems. Luhrmann found equal measures of detractors and champions for "Strictly Ballroom" (1992), "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" (1996) and "Moulin Rouge!" (2001), all of which adhered to a specific style developed by Luhrmann and his collaborators that he dubbed "the Red Curtain." His films relied on straightforward plots, but the world he created was one of heightened reality - visually rich with devices like dance, iambic pentameter or characters bursting out in song to drive the story. As Luhrmann grew more secure in his position as director and as his budgets increased with each picture, his camera and editing merged into a sort of helter-skelter, hellzapoppin' style that blended the emotional and p tic in new and revolutionary ways.
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Baz Luhrmann
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley | Self | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Room 999 | Self | - | 2023 |
77% |
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Elvis |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$151.0M | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Step Into...The Movies With Derek and Julianne Hough | Self | - | 2022 |
100% |
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Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible | Self | - | 2017 |
77% |
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The First Monday in May | Self | $527.3K | 2016 |
27% |
|
Crazy About Tiffany's | Self | - | 2016 |
48% |
|
The Great Gatsby |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$144.8M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oh My God? | Unknown (Character) | $38.2K | 2009 |
54% |
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Australia |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$49.6M | 2008 |
75% |
|
Moulin Rouge |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$57.4M | 2001 |
74% |
|
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$46.4M | 1996 |
88% |
|
Strictly Ballroom |
Director, Writer |
$9.1M | 1992 |
No Score Yet |
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The Winter of Our Dreams | Pete (Character) | - | 1981 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 60 Minutes | Guest | 2024 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2023 |
56% | 81% | Australia : Faraway Downs |
Executive Producer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
2023 |
82% | 88% | The Get Down |
Executive Producer, Director |
2016-2017 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dancing With the Stars | Judge | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Country Practice | Jerry Percival (Character) | 1981 |