About

Known credits:
13
Birthday:
1960-09-11
Place of birth:
Utica, New York,USA
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John Curran

Overview

John Curran (born September 11, 1960) is an American film director and screenwriter.

Born in Utica, New York, Curran studied illustration and design at Syracuse University, then worked as an illustrator, graphic designer, and production designer in Manhattan before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1986. There he worked on television commercials before writing and directing the short film Down Rusty Down. For his debut feature film, the 1998 drama Praise, he was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and won the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Director and the International Critics' Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Six years passed before Curran tackled his next project, the independent film We Don't Live Here Anymore, for which he was nominated for the Grand Special Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He followed this two years later with The Painted Veil, the third screen adaptation of the 1925 novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

He wrote the screenplay for The Killer Inside Me, the second film adaptation of the 1952 novel by Jim Thompson. Directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Casey Affleck, and Bill Pullman, it currently is filming in Oklahoma. He also is set to direct The Beautiful and the Damned, a Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald biopic starring Keira Knightley.

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Known for

Acting

2011 Behind Bars: The Making of Stone Actor Self 59
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Directing

2023 Mercy Road Directing Director 59
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2018 Chappaquiddick Directing Director 59
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2013 Tracks Directing Director 64
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2010 Stone Directing Director 55
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2006 The Painted Veil Directing Director 68
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2004 We Don't Live Here Anymore Directing Director 58
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1999 Praise Directing Director 58
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1997 Down Rusty Down Directing Director 59
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Writing

2023 Mercy Road Writing Writer 59
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2010 The Killer Inside Me Writing Screenplay 58
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1997 Down Rusty Down Writing Writer 59
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Production

2006 The Painted Veil Production Executive Producer 68
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