Damien Chazelle's biographyEXERCISE: Pick out the very important information of Damien Chazelle's lifein your copybook. Damien Chazelle, in full Damien Sayre Chazelle, (born January 19,1985, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.), American director and screenwriterwho won numerous awards for his first two major films, Whiplash (2014)and La La Land (2016).Chazelle was the son of university professors, and as a child he had aninterest in both filmmaking and music. He attended Princeton High Schoolin Princeton, New Jersey, and played drums in the school's highlycompetitive jazz band. Chazelle then studied filmmaking in HarvardUniversity's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (A.B., 2007). Hisdebut as a filmmaker was Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), ablack-and-white expansion of a student film about a failed romance betweena trumpet player and a graduate student that was filmed in New YorkCity and Boston; it featured music written by Chazelle's friend Justin Hurwitz(who also wrote the scores for Whiplash and La La Land) and won favourablenotice at the Tribeca Film Festival.After moving to Los Angeles, Chazelle began working as a screenwriter. Heproduced scripts for the horror movie The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) andthe thriller Grand Piano (2013) but was unable to generate interest in a scriptthat he had written on his own. Abandoning that effort, he began writing ascreenplay based on his experience with a taskmaster music instructor whenhe was in high school. With veteran actor J.K. Simmons as the instructor andJohnny Simmons as the drummer, Chazelle created an 18-minute short film ofa scene from his Whiplash screenplay and submitted to the 2013 SundanceFilm Festival, where it won both the short-film jury prize and enough financingto create the feature-length version. That film, also featuring Simmons butwith Miles Teller as the drummer, was nominated for the Academy Award forbest picture and won three Oscars (for best supporting actor (Simmons), filmediting, and sound mixing). In addition, Chazelle received an Oscarnomination for his screenplay.Aider moi svp ​
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