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Jon Burroughs: Miserable childhood. Mental illness. Where do I find that kind of inspiration?
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Frank: I've always dreamed of one day having a band member who shared my vision of creating extremely likable music. So, thank you, Jon. You gave me the little push I needed.
Lenny Abrahamson
Leonard Abrahamson (Leonard Abrahamson), born in Dublin, Ireland on November 30, 1966, is an Irish director and screenwriter.
In 1991, directed his first short film "3 Joes". In 2004, he directed his first film " Adam&Paul ", for which he won the Irish Film and Television Academy Award for Best Director. In 2007, the feature film " Garage " directed by him was released, and the film won the International Art Theatre Association Award at the 60th Cannes International Film Festival. In 2012, directed the feature film "What Richard did", which was shortlisted for the Best Film Award at the 10th Irish Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards
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, with which he was nominated for the 10th Irish Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards for Best Director Award
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. In 2014, he directed the feature film " Frank "
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, with which he was nominated for the Best Director of the 17th British Independent Film Awards. In 2015, with the feature film " Room ", he was nominated for the 88th Academy Awards for Best Director
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. In 2019, directed the feature film "The Burning Rainbow Farm".
Performing Experience
In 1991, directed his first short film "3 Joes". After that, he won a scholarship to study philosophy at Stanford University in the United States, but returned to Ireland to pursue a career in the film industry before graduating
. In 2004, he directed his first film " Adam&Paul ", for which he won the Irish Film and Television Academy Award for Best Director.
In 2007, the feature film " Garage " directed by him was released, and the film won the International Art Theatre Association Award at the 60th Cannes International Film Festival. In 2008, directed the science fiction thriller film "Dublin 26.06.08: A Movie in 4 Days".
In 2012, directed the feature film "What Richard did" co-starring Jack Reynor , Rosen Murphy, and Sam Keeley . The film was nominated for the Best Picture at the 10th Irish Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards
. He was nominated for the film. Best Director Award at the 10th Irish Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards
.
In 2014, directed the fiction film " Frank " starring Michael Fassbender and Maggie Gyllenhaal
. The film tells the story of a young man who wants to become a musician, Jon. After joining a weird pop band led by Frank, he found himself overloaded. With the story of training, he was shortlisted for the Best Director Award at the 17th British Independent Film Awards.
In 2015, he directed the feature film " Room " co-starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay
. The film won the 40th Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award-Best Feature Film
. He was nominated for the 88th Oscar Award for this film. Best Director Award
, won the Best Director Award from the Irish Academy of Film and Television Arts.
In 2016, he co-directed the TV series " Chance Season 1 " with Daniel Atios and Mike Leman . In 2018, directed the war film "The Great Escape", which was adapted from the novel of the same name by the historical novelist Neal Bascomb, which told about the large-scale prison escape in World War I
; in the same year, directed the same-sex film "Wild Blood"; in August, The suspense thriller film " The Little Stranger " directed by him was released, which was starred by Domhnall Gleeson and The Legend
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In 2019, directed the feature film "The Burning Rainbow Farm".
Character Evaluation
Irish director Leonard Abrahamson's film works are known for focusing on the living conditions of marginalized people. The desire for humanity is always the starting point of his film creation
. In the movie "Room", he poured his enthusiasm for the film, whether it is the control of the story, the processing of the images, or the expansion of practical significance, all reached a certain height. The director is obviously reflecting the reality, but instead of following the painful image style, he uses the deconstructive mode of dispelling the real field to write. With this kind of contradictory expression, it intuitively and deeply reflects the sad description of reality. . It can be said that Leonard Abrahamson's mature image style and expression ability have enriched the expression of the real and imaginary horizons of the "existence" space, and further built the artistic bridge between film and reality Journal of Jilin University of the Arts evaluation).
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