|
Director Lucy Walker is best known for directing five feature documentary films: ''Devil's Playground'' (2002), ''Blindsight'' (2006), ''Waste Land'' (2010), ''Countdown to Zero'' (2010), and ''The Crash Reel'' (2013), as well as short films notably ''The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom'' (2011) and ''The Lion's Mouth Opens'' (2014) and fifteen episodes of Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, for which she was nominated for two Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Directing. She and her work have been nominated for two Academy Awards, seven Emmys, a DGA Award, a Gotham Award, and an Independent Spirit Award, and have won around one hundred other film awards including an Emmy, two Cinema Eye Honors, two IDA Awards, two awards at Sundance, two at Berlin, and one at SXSW (full list below) . Walker has been shortlisted five times and nominated twice for an Academy Award. On 25 January 2011 she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for ''Waste Land'', and on 24 January 2012 she received her second nomination, this time in the Best Documentary Short category, for ''The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom''. In 2007 ''Blindsight'' and in 2014 ''The Crash Reel'' were shortlisted (and ultimately not nominated) for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and ''The Lion's Mouth Opens'' is currently shortlisted for Best Documentary Short.〔Hernandez, Eugene (15 November 2006), ("15 Films Selected for Oscar Short List in Doc Feature Category" ). IndieWire.com.〕 She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the International Documentary Association, and the Directors Guild of America. ==Early life== Walker was born in London, started directing theatre in high school and continued as a student at Oxford University, where she directed and produced an original musical called Querm which swept the prestigious Oxford University Dramatic Society Cuppers awards. Walker went on to become the Artistic Director of theatre group New Company, and her outdoor musical productions of The Jungle Book and Tintin and the Broken Ear were cult hits. After graduating from New College, Oxford with a B.A. (Hons) and M.A. (Oxon) starred first-class honours in Language and Literature she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the graduate film program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she directed award-winning short fictional films and received an MFA. ===Music=== Walker also had a career as a DJ and musician. While at NYU film school, Walker supported herself by DJing and was featured as a cover story in ''Option'' and on the cover of issue No. 154 of ''The Wire''.〔("The Illbient Ambience" ). ''The Wire'', #154. December 1996.〕 apppearing frequently at the Soundlab and all over New York City, the USA and Europe, performing solo and also as a member of experimental illbient ensemble Byzar, for whom she also directed a suitably avant-garde video for the track "Phylyx" (which was broadcast most prominently as the show-opening video on MTV's iconic 1990s electronica show AMP (episodes 116, 122, and 124). Writing about music, Walker contributed a chapter to ''Sound Unbound, Sampling Digital Music and Culture''〔(''Sound Unbound, Sampling Digital Music and Culture'' ), again with frequent collaborator Moby. Paul d. Miller (ed.). MIT Press, 2008.〕 edited by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid (The MIT Press, 2008). Her extensive use of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85–92 to form the soundtrack to Devil's Playground' was written about in detail in Marc Weidenbaum's book about this seminal album. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucy Walker (director)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|