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Baz Luhrmann

Highest Rated: 100% Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible (2017)

Lowest Rated: 27% Crazy About Tiffany's (2016)

Birthday: Sep 17, 1962

Birthplace: New South Wales, Australia

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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Highest rated movies

100% 100% Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible
Watchlist
88% 87% Strictly Ballroom Watchlist 77% 94% Elvis Watchlist 77% 69% The First Monday in May Watchlist 75% 89% Moulin Rouge Watchlist 74% 77% William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet Watchlist
54% 65% Australia
Watchlist
48% 67% The Great Gatsby
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27% 37% Crazy About Tiffany's Watchlist
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
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% 94% 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% 100% Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible Self - 2017
77% 69% The First Monday in May Self $527.3K 2016
27% 37% Crazy About Tiffany's Self - 2016
48% 67% The Great Gatsby Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$144.8M 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Oh My God? Unknown (Character) $38.2K 2009
54% 65% Australia Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$49.6M 2008
75% 89% Moulin Rouge Director,
Writer,
Producer
$57.4M 2001
74% 77% William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$46.4M 1996
88% 87% Strictly Ballroom Director,
Writer
$9.1M 1992
No Score Yet 17% The Winter of Our Dreams Pete (Character) - 1981

TV

Credit
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