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John Curran (director)

American film director and screenwriter

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American film director and screenwriter

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

Life and career

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 was filmed in Oklahoma. He also is set to direct The Beautiful and Damned, a Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald biopic starring Keira Knightley. In October 2012, he began filming an adaptation of Robyn Davidson's Tracks, starring Mia Wasikowska, in Australia.

He lives in Pittsford, New York.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Notes
1996	Down Rusty Down	Short film
1998	Praise
2004	We Don't Live Here Anymore
2006	The Painted Veil	Also executive producer
2010	Stone
The Killer Inside Me
2013	Tracks
2017	Chappaquiddick
2023	Mercy Road

Television

Year	Title	Episode(s)
2005	The L Word	"L'Chlaim"
2019	Bloom	"The Memory Box"
"Back to Life"
"Redemption"
2021	Eden	"Scout"
"Cora & Damian"
"Andy"
2025	The Last Frontier	"Winds of Change"
"American Dream"
"Arnaq"
"L’air Perdu"

References

(11 September 1960). "John Curran at". Answers.com.
Marc Lee Published: 12:01AM BST 16 Jun 2007 Comments. (16 June 2007). "''Telegraph'' interview, June 19, 2007". Telegraph.co.uk.
(4 January 2009). "''Variety'', January 4, 2009". Variety.com.
(6 January 2009). "FilmSchoolRejects.com". FilmSchoolRejects.com.
Lodderhose, Diana. (May 23, 2012). "Mia Wasikowska heads Down Under for 'Tracks'". [[Variety (magazine).
garner, jack. "Director returns to Pittsford roots". Democrat and Chronicle.

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