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Tate Taylor

Highest Rated: 94% Winter's Bone (2010)

Lowest Rated: 11% Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)

Birthday: Jun 3, 1969

Birthplace: Jackson, Mississippi, USA

Actor-turned-filmmaker Tate Taylor used his Southern upbringing to inform his adaptation of "The Help" (2011), a period drama set in the Jim Crow South and based on the best-selling novel by his childhood friend, Kathryn Stockett. The film, which examined the relationship between black domestics and the white families that employed them, was a major summer hit, elevating Taylor from bit player and occasional feature director to the steady hand behind a blockbuster produced by DreamWorks Pictures and Steven Spielberg. His expected windfall of writing accolades during the 2011-12 award season served as official notice that Taylor was a bona fide Hollywood filmmaker on the rise.

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Highest rated movies

94% 76% Winter's Bone Watchlist 80% 68% Get On Up Watchlist
76% 89% The Help
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70% 96% Rumble Through the Dark
Watchlist 55% 64% Ma Watchlist 44% 49% The Girl on the Train Watchlist
31% 57% Breakin' All the Rules
Watchlist 21% 29% Ava Watchlist 11% 45% Breaking News in Yuba County Watchlist
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Tate Taylor

Tate Taylor THE HELP, from left: director Tate Taylor, producer Brunson Green, Emma Stone, on set, 2011. ©Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures MA, FROM LEFT: OCTAVIA SPENCER, DIRECTOR TATE TAYLOR, DANTE BROWN, DIANA SILVERS, MCKALEY MILLER, ON-SET, 2019. PH: ANNA KOORIS/© UNIVERSAL MA, FROM LEFT: COREY FOGELMANIS, DANTE BROWN, GIANNI PAOLO, TATE TAYLOR, 2019. PH: ANNA KOORIS/© UNIVERSAL MA, CENTER: DIRECTOR TATE TAYLOR; LEFT: OCTAVIA SPENCER, ON-SET, 2019. PH: ANNA KOORIS/© UNIVERSAL MA, FROM LEFT: JULIETTE LEWIS, DIRECTOR TATE TAYLOR, ON-SET, 2019. PH: ANNA KOORIS/© UNIVERSAL THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, from left: Director Tate Taylor, Emily Blunt, on-set, 2016. ph: Barry Wetcher/©Universal THE HELP, (l to r) director of photography Stephen Goldblatt, director Tate Taylor, Cicely Tyson, Emma Stone, on set, 2011. ph: Dale Robinette/©Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures THE HELP, (l to r) Emma Stone, director Tate Taylor, Viola Davis, on set, 2011. ph: Dale Robinette/©Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures GET ON UP, from left: Chadwick Boseman, as James Brown, director Tate Taylor, on set, 2014. ph: D. Stevens/©Universal Pictures View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
70% 96% Rumble Through the Dark Executive Producer - 2023
11% 45% Breaking News in Yuba County Director,
Producer 		- 2021
21% 29% Ava Director $464.2K 2020
55% 64% Ma Officer Grainger (Character),
Director,
Producer 		$45.3M 2019
44% 49% The Girl on the Train Director $75.2M 2016
80% 68% Get On Up Director,
Producer 		$30.5M 2014
76% 89% The Help Director,
Screenwriter,
Executive Producer 		$169.7M 2011
94% 76% Winter's Bone Mike Satterfield (Character) $6.5M 2010
No Score Yet 26% Pretty Ugly People Director,
Writer,
Producer 		- 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wannabe Gunner Dillyn (Character) - 2005
31% 57% Breakin' All the Rules Attendant (Character) $11.8M 2004

TV

Credit
56% 68% Palm Royale Executive Producer,
Director 		2024
64% 52% Filthy Rich Executive Producer,
Director,
Writer 		2020
90% 87% Grace and Frankie Director 2015
81% 96% Six Feet Under Job Applicant 1 (Guest Star) 2001