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 James L. Brooks was born on May 9, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Broadcast News (1987), As Good as It Gets (1997) and Terms of Endearment (1983). He was previously married to Holly Holmberg Brooks and Marianne Catherine Morrissey.
Bio:
James L. Brooks was born on May 9, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Broadcast News (1987), As Good as It Gets (1997) and Terms of Endearment (1983). He was previously married to Holly Holmberg Brooks and Marianne Catherine Morrissey.
Tivia:
Discovered Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, which resulted in their movie Bottle Rocket (1996).He is among an elite group of six directors who have won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Original/Adapted) Oscars for the same film. In 1984 he won all three for Terms of Endearment (1983). The other directors are Billy Wilder (for The Apartment (1960)), Francis Ford Coppola (for The Godfather Part II (1974)), Peter Jackson (for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (the brothers co-produced, co-directed and co-wrote No Country for Old Men (2007) with each other), and Alejandro G. I?��rritu (for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)). Brooks is the only one to do so with his directorial debut and the only one to do so without collaborators in any of the three categories.Owns Gracie Films, which produces The Simpsons (1989).Has won 21 Prime Time Emmy awards--more than any person in history. As executive producer he has won 11 for The Simpsons (1989), three for Taxi (1978), three for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and one for The Tracey Ullman Show (1987); as writer he won two for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and one for The Tracey Ullman Show (1987).He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Broadcast News (1987).His laughter is heard in the studio audience of many shows he produced, especially Taxi (1978), in which his laughter is heard through all five seasons. It appears louder than any of the other audience members, sounding like a "Haw", sustaining the "Aw" sound.He was commissioned to do a screen adaptation of Terms of Endearment (1983) by wealthy businessman Norton Simon and his wife, the former actress Jennifer Jones, as a comeback vehicle for her. Brooks decided he didn't want to have to adapt the character of Aurora to a particular actress, and persuaded Paramount to buy the rights from the Simons. He cast Shirley MacLaine because she was the only actress who viewed the story as a comedy. When he won the screenplay Oscar, Brooks thanked Jennifer Jones Simon.Along with Delbert Mann, Jerome Robbins, Robert Redford, Kevin Costner and Sam Mendes, he is one of only six people to win the Academy Award for Best Director for their directorial debut: Mann for Marty (1955), Robbins for West Side Story (1961) (which he co-directed with Robert Wise, Redford for Ordinary People (1980), Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), Costner for Dances with Wolves (1990) and Mendes for American Beauty (1999).Directed nine Oscar-nominated performances: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger, John Lithgow, Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear. Nicholson, MacLaine and Hunt won Oscars for their performances in one of Brooks' movies (Nicholson twice).Produced, wrote and directed three Best Picture Oscar nominees: Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987) and As Good as It Gets (1997). He won three awards (Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay) for the first of these. These three films were among the first four he directed, and out of a total of six. He also produced a fourth Best Picture nominee: Jerry Maguire (1996).During the opening credits for some of the seasons of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), there is a scene of Mary by the one of the lakes in Minneapolis. During that scene, two men jog by--one of them is Brooks.Has been a member of of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Writers Branch) since 2006.Father, with Marianne Catherine Morrissey, of Amy Brooks (b. 1971).Father, with Holly Holmberg Brooks, of Chloe Brooks, Cooper Brooks, & Joey Brooks.Was best man at Norman Pearlstine's and Nancy Friday's wedding. |
| Name: |
James L. Brooks |
Type: |
Writer,Producer,Additional Crew (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
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IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Writer,Producer,Additional Crew |
| Products for sale: |
Writer,Producer,Additional Crew |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 02:51:03 |
| Height: |
6' 1' (1.85 m) |
| Biography: |
James L. Brooks was born on May 9, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Broadcast News (1987), As Good as It Gets (1997) and Terms of Endearment (1983). He was previously married to Holly Holmberg Brooks and Mariann |
| Trivia: |
Discovered Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, which resulted in their movie Bottle Rocket (1996).He is among an elite group of six directors who have won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Original/Adapted) Oscars for the same film. In 1984 he won all three for Terms of Endearment (1983). The other directors are Billy Wilder (for The Apartment (1960)), Francis Ford Coppola (for The Godfather Part II (1974)), Peter Jackson (for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (the brothers co-produced, co-directed and co-wrote No Country for Old Men (2007) with each other), and Alejandro G. I?��rritu (for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)). Brooks is the only one to do so with his directorial debut and the only one to do so without collaborators in any of the three categories.Owns Gracie Films, which produces The Simpsons (1989).Has won 21 Prime Time Emmy awards--more than any person in history. As executive producer he has won 11 for The Simpsons (1989), three for Taxi (1978), three for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and one for The Tracey Ullman Show (1987); as writer he won two for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and one for The Tracey Ullman Show (1987).He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Broadcast News (1987).His laughter is heard in the studio audience of many shows he produced, especially Taxi (1978), in which his laughter is heard through all five seasons. It appears louder than any of the other audience members, sounding like a "Haw", sustaining the "Aw" sound.He was commissioned to do a screen adaptation of Terms of Endearment (1983) by wealthy businessman Norton Simon and his wife, the former actress Jennifer Jones, as a comeback vehicle for her. Brooks decided he didn't want to have to adapt the character of Aurora to a particular actress, and persuaded Paramount to buy the rights from the Simons. He cast Shirley MacLaine because she was the only actress who viewed the story as a comedy. When he won the screenplay Oscar, Brooks thanked Jennifer Jones Simon.Along with Delbert Mann, Jerome Robbins, Robert Redford, Kevin Costner and Sam Mendes, he is one of only six people to win the Academy Award for Best Director for their directorial debut: Mann for Marty (1955), Robbins for West Side Story (1961) (which he co-directed with Robert Wise, Redford for Ordinary People (1980), Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), Costner for Dances with Wolves (1990) and Mendes for American Beauty (1999).Directed nine Oscar-nominated performances: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger, John Lithgow, Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear. Nicholson, MacLaine and Hunt won Oscars for their performances in one of Brooks' movies (Nicholson twice).Produced, wrote and directed three Best Picture Oscar nominees: Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987) and As Good as It Gets (1997). He won three awards (Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay) for the first of these. These three films were among the first four he directed, and out of a total of six. He also produced a fourth Best Picture nominee: Jerry Maguire (1996).During the opening credits for some of the seasons of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), there is a scene of Mary by the one of the lakes in Minneapolis. During that scene, two men jog by--one of them is Brooks.Has been a member of of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Writers Branch) since 2006.Father, with Marianne Catherine Morrissey, of Amy Brooks (b. 1971).Father, with Holly Holmberg Brooks, of Chloe Brooks, Cooper Brooks, & Joey Brooks.Was best man at Norman Pearlstine's and Nancy Friday's wedding. |
| Trademarks: |
Sharp-witted, acerbic sense of humor
Frequently casts Jack Nicholson, Albert Brooks
Writes at least one character who is an obsessive-compulsive or has OCD (Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment (1983), Holly Hunter in Broadcast News (1987), Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets (1997), T��a Leoni in Spanglish (2004)). |
| Quotes: |
While you're doing it, it is sort of a lonely kind of feeling, even though you are surrounded by so many people giving beyond the call. That's generally true of movies, there's a sense of urgency, people risking their tail, people working past exhaustion. That's what moviemaking is. It's lonely because you asked all of them to work that hard for this idea you had.
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[on I'll Do Anything (1994)] I wanted to do a Hollywood story. At the time it seemed to me, and it turned out to be a real miscalculation, to get the truth about Hollywood, the form had to be larger than life, a musical. I did a lot of strange things on that. Because of my background I went for actors on it and not singers. I'm in love with actors. I had great musical people, the best. I had Twyla Tharp as my choreographer. Prince as my songwriter. Sin��ad O'Connor did one song, a beautiful song. And I went to work, and it was the first time I fell in love with my leading lady, who was this six-year-old magical child. And her mother was great--part of the movie was based on my experience with my own two daughters, and I sort of became a surrogate dad. I had all these other people around me that I loved and it was great. And then we went to our first preview. And it was a disaster. We had walkouts, it was awful. Then the worst thing of all happened--someone who saw it told somebody who told somebody who told the Los Angeles Times about what had happened, and then they came after the story. So now here I was trying to fix the film and I actually have the major home-town newspaper publish what had happened, and kill us dead in the water. And they made a story out of my odyssey, came to my next preview and it was just horrendous. So eventually I pared down the music, took almost all of it out. And you can speculate on a lot of things about why the picture didn't work. I'm a guy who started out in one form and changed it to another, but the movie played and people laughed, because I saw it with an audience. But it utterly failed commercially and I felt like I had let down a lot of people. It's my job to take it personally. When I ask people to join me and work with me, who else is responsible? But I haven't seen the movie in a long time and I still think it's a good movie.
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[on being employed by a studio] Sometimes they give you so much rope you forget it's around your neck. But it always is. You feel it when they yank it.
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[in 2014] The great thing in television, usually the writer's in charge. It's the one place. In movies it's certainly not true. But in television it's true and there's something--the inmates running the asylum and all that. And there's something to that. Right now, there are so many great shows that are truly authored. It's a place where writers are in charge. Right now, a lot of the great things we see each year will be on television.
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I saw Annie Hall (1977) with a group of people working in comedy and television. We were all stunned. Stunned. It was like watching a spaceship land. That something that funny could also be that beautiful. |
| Salaries: |
How Do You Know (2010) - $10,000,000 + backend |
| Job title: |
Writer,Producer,Additional Crew |
| Others works: |
Stage play "Brooklyn Laundry" (1990)
In 1972, he produced an unsold comedy anthology pilot called "The Class of '55", which would show what happened to the graduates of a fictional college seventeen years after the fact. The pilo |
| Spouse: |
Holly Holmberg Brooks (July 23, 1978 - 1999) (divorced, 3 children)Marianne Catherine Morrissey (July 7, 1964 - March 1972) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Chloe BrooksCooper BrooksJoey BrooksAmy Brooks |
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