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Joseph Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director residing in
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. His motion pictures include the literary adaptations '' Pride & Prejudice'' (2005), ''
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'' (2007), ''
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'' (2012), and ''
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'' (2021), the action thriller '' Hanna'' (2011),
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origin story '' Pan'' (2015), and '' Darkest Hour'' (2017), a
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following
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during
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nominated for Best Picture.


Early life and career

Wright always had an interest in the arts, especially painting. He would also make films on his Super 8 camera as well as spend time in the evenings acting in a drama club. Wright is dyslexic. He went to
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Secondary School, but left without any
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. He began his career working at his parents' puppet theatre, the Little Angel Theatre in Islington. He also took classes at the Anna Scher Theatre School and acted professionally on stage and camera. He spent an art
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year at
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, before taking a degree in fine art and film at
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where he was tutored by
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and
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. In his last year of studies he received a scholarship to make a
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for the
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that won several awards. During the 1990s, he worked at Oil Factory, a
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based in Caledonian Road, Kings Cross. He worked on a variety of productions in numerous roles, including casting director. Here he was able to get the opportunity to direct some music videos. Alongside this, particularly on the strength of his short film work, he was also developing ''The End'', his second short film. During this decade Wright also worked part-time as a roadie for Vegetable Vision who created visuals for various electronic music bands, such as
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,
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,
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and
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. He attributes some of the aesthetic and emotion of the UK rave scene as an influence on his work. On the success of his first short film, he was offered the script for the serial ''Nature Boy'' (2000). He followed this up with the serials ''Bodily Harm'' (2002) with
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and the highly acclaimed '' Charles II: The Power and the Passion'' (2003) with
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which won the
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for Best Drama Serial.


Feature films

In 2005, he made the transition to feature films with the critically acclaimed adaptation of '' Pride & Prejudice'' starring
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and Matthew Macfadyen. The film received numerous accolades including 4
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nominations (including
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), 6 BAFTA nominations (Wright won the BAFTA for most promising newcomer) among other nominations and wins. Wright's next feature was an adaptation of
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's
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shortlisted novel ''
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'', which was released in 2007, reuniting Wright with
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, and also stars
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and
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. On 13 December 2007, the film was nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, more than any other film that year. Though Wright himself was not nominated for director, the film received seven Academy Award nominations, winning only for Best Original Score. At the BAFTA Awards it received 14 nominations and went on to win for Best Production Design and Best Film. His next film was ''
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'' which stars
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and
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It is about the "true story of musical prodigy
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, who developed schizophrenia in his second year at
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and ended up homeless on the streets of downtown L.A. where he performs the violin and cello." It was to be released on 21 November 2008; however the release date was pushed back to 24 April 2009. Wright reunited with ''Atonement'' star
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for the 2011 action thriller ''Hanna''. The title character is a 15-year-old girl trained since birth to be an assassin by her father (
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), a rogue CIA asset. The movie received mostly positive reviews with
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calling it a "first rate thriller" in his review The film received an aggregate score of 65 from Metacritic, meaning it received generally positive reviews. Wright directed the 2012 screen adaptation by Sir
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of
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's classic novel ''
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''. The cast included
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as Anna,
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as her husband, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as her young love, Irish actor
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as Konstantin Levin, as well as
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,
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, Matthew Macfadyen, and
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.
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and Andrea Riseborough were initially cast in the film, but dropped out and were replaced by
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and
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, respectively. Wright then directed the 2015 prequel to ''
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'' for Warner Bros. The film starred
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,
Garrett Hedlund Garrett John Hedlund (born September 3, 1984) is an American actor. His films include ''Troy'' (2004), '' Friday Night Lights'' (2004), '' Four Brothers'' (2005), ''Eragon'' (2006), ''Death Sentence'' (2007), '' Tron: Legacy'' (2010), ''Country ...
,
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,
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and
Levi Miller Levi Zane Miller (born 30 September 2002) is an Australian actor and model. He is known for playing Peter Pan in '' Pan'' (2015), Luke in ''Better Watch Out'' (2016), and Calvin in ''A Wrinkle in Time'' (2018). Early life Miller was born in B ...
as Peter. The screenplay by actor-turned-screenwriter
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was from the 2013 Hollywood Black List, a selection of popular unproduced scripts. The film was negatively received by critics and was considered a commercial flop, failing to recoup its budget at the box office.
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's casting as Tiger Lily caused a
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, due to her being of
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ancestry, while Tiger Lily is traditionally portrayed as being Native American. Wright's 2017 film '' Darkest Hour'' covers a pivotal month in the life of former British Prime Minister
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. The film stars
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as Churchill, along with
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,
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, David Schofield, Kristin Scott Thomas,
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and
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. Wright said the film is a rebuke to
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.


Directorial trademarks

Wright won a
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for best newcomer for ''Pride & Prejudice'' and was the youngest director to have a film open the
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with ''Atonement''. According to the director's commentary on ''Pride & Prejudice'', Wright is influenced by the work of British film director
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, and possessing a certain knowledge of
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, tries sometimes to compose his shots after classical paintings. ''Charles II: The Power and The Passion'', ''Pride & Prejudice'', ''Atonement'' and ''Hanna'' all have long
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s in them. ''Atonement'' has a continuous 5-minute and 5 second shot of the
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. "Basically, I just like showing off", Wright told the audience at the
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.


Personal life

After meeting on the set of '' Pride & Prejudice'', Wright began a relationship with actress
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. They were engaged from 2007 to 2008. Wright was married to
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, daughter of
Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North Ind ...
and half-sister of
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, from 2010 until 2019. They have two sons: Zubin Shankar Wright, who was born in February 2011, and Mohan Shankar Wright, who was born in February 2015. They separated in December 2017 and their divorce was finalized in September 2019 as a judge concluded that Wright had committed adultery and that his wife found living with him “intolerable.” Since 2017, Wright has been in a relationship with American actress
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. Their daughter, Virginia Willow, was born on 27 December 2018 in
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. As of 2019, the family resides in the United Kingdom in Bruton, in
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.


Filmography


Short film

* ''Crocodile Snap'' (1997) * ''The End'' (1998)


Feature films


Television


Commercial work

* "
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: Wherever I Go" (2012) * "Chanel No. 5: There You Are" (2012) * "
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: Chanel" (2014)


Casting and crew


Awards and nominations

Directed Academy Award performances


References


External links

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