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John Whitney Stillman (born January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director and actor known for his 1990 film Metropolitan, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Whit Stillman is an American director, writer and actor known for his witty and stylish comedies of manners. He has made eight feature films, including Metropolitan, Barcelona and Love & Friendship, and has been nominated for an Oscar and won several awards.
- January 1, 1
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- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Whit Stillman was born in 1952 and raised in Cornwall in upstate New York, the son of a impoverished debutante from Philadelphia and a Democratic politician from Washington D.C. Stillman graduated from Harvard in 1973 and started out as a journalist in Manhattan, New York City.
- January 25, 1952
Apr 29, 2016 · The director of Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco, and Love & Friendship talks about his creative process, his love of books, and his challenges of recreating different periods. He also reveals his plans for a sequel to Love & Friendship and his admiration for Jane Austen.
Whit Stillman is the writer/director of five films: the Oscar-nominated Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Damsels in Distress (2011), and the Jane Austen adaptation Love & Friendship (2015).
Aug 27, 2014 · Twenty-four years after the release of his first feature, “Metropolitan,” and two years after the release of his fourth, “Damsels in Distress,” Whit Stillman—the cinema’s novelist of manners, who...
Sep 4, 2009 · Whit Stillman, writer and director of The Last Days of Disco, shares his personal list of ten favorite films from the Criterion Collection. He praises the works of Truffaut, Hitchcock, Sturges, Bergman, and others, and explains his choices with humor and insight.
