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Terrence Malick
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American film director and screenwriter (born 1943)
Terrence Malick is an American film director and screenwriter born in 1943 who is known for creating visually distinctive and philosophically complex movies. His work has significantly influenced contemporary cinema through his innovative visual style and approach to storytelling.
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Ottawa, Illinois, USA
Terrence Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning over five decades, Malick has directed nine feature films. He is known for his singular style that combines loose narrative and editing structure with spiritual themes. Malick made his feature film debut with Badlands (1973), a crime drama loosely inspired by the…
Known for
- Ennio — Self (voice)2022
- Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick — Self (archive footage)2002
- HBO First Look — Self1992
- Days of Heaven — Mill Worker (uncredited)1978
- Badlands — Caller at Rich Man's House (uncredited)1973
- Pocket Money — Worksman (uncredited)1972
- Lanton Mills — Tilman1969
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Terrence
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ottawa
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Award
- Golden Bear
- Image
- Terrence Malick.jpg
- Work location
- United States
- Residence
- Austin
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- birth name
- Terrence Frederick Malick
- Commons category
- Terrence Malick
- date of birth
- 1943-11-30
- member of
- Writers Guild of America West
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
- name in native language
- Terrence Malick
- writing language
- English language
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Terrence Malick
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- 1969-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Terrence Frederick Malick (/ˈmælɪk/; born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood generation of filmmakers and received numerous accolades, including the Palme d'Or and the Golden Bear, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a DGA Award, and a WGA Award.
Malick made his feature film debut with the crime drama Badlands (1973), followed by the romantic period drama Days of Heaven (1978), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He then directed the World War II epic The Thin Red Line (1998), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, the historical romantic drama The New World (2005), and the experimental coming-of-age drama The Tree of Life (2011), for which he was again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or.
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