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Baumbach, Noah |
Date of birth
3 September 1969, New York City, U.S.
Noah Baumbach (September 3, 1969, New York City, U.S.)
Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter.
He is known for making comedies set in New York City and his works are inspired by writer-directors such as Woody Allen and Whit Stillman.
His frequent collaborators include Wes Anderson, Adam Driver, and his wife, Greta Gerwig.
Baumbach gained attention for his early films Kicking and Screaming (1995), and Mr. Jealousy (1997). His breakthrough film The Squid and the Whale (2005) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
He started his long time collaboration with Gerwig with Greenberg (2010), and continued with Frances Ha (2013), Mistress America (2015), White Noise (2022) and Barbie (2023).
“If I had to sell Life Aquatic to a producer, well, I wouldn't say it's like an Éric Rohmer film under water.”
His other films include Margot at the Wedding (2007), While We're Young (2014), and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017).
His film Marriage Story (2019) earned an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination and Baumbach's second Best Original Screenplay nomination.
He is also known for co-writing with Anderson on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009).
Baumbach has noted that Woody Allen has been "an obvious influence", stating, "He was the single biggest pop culture influence on me". He has cited the films Manhattan, Zelig, and Broadway Danny Rose as influences on his work. He has also cited Ernst Lubitsch, Max Ophüls, Jean Renoir, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Spike Lee, Whit Stillman, Steven Spielberg, as well as the screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s, and the films of the French New Wave as influences. His favorite film of all time is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Baumbach is a fan of the "beautiful" music of electronic acts New Order and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and sought to "do something that evoked" those bands on the soundtrack of Mistress America (2015). He has also cited David Bowie and Paul McCartney, and the film scores of Tangerine Dream and Georges Delerue, as important to him.
Selected filmography of
Baumbach, Noah
2022
White Noise (2022)
2019
Marriage Story (2019)
2017
The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
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