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Julie Taymor

born 1952 · Directing

62.9avg grm
5titles
#735best rank
11honors
Gbest title · #735 on siteGreat Performances1971 · as Director · series64.1

Honors

11
1993Emmy — Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming
2017Disney Legends
2016Annual award ACFK
1998Tony Award — Best Direction of a Musical
1998Tony Award — Best Costume Design
Honors
  • 1993Emmy — Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming
  • 2017Disney Legends
  • 2016Annual award ACFK
  • 1998Tony Award — Best Direction of a Musical
  • 1998Tony Award — Best Costume Design
  • 1991MacArthur Fellows Program
  • 1989Guggenheim Fellowship
  • —Laurence Olivier Awards
  • —Richard Rodgers Awards — Musical Theatre
  • —Fulbright Scholarship
  • —Drama League Award

Bio

Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She had been the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before leaving in March 2011, after four months of previews (the longest preview period for any show in Broadway history), following artistic differences with the producers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Taymor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Biography

Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She had been the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before leaving in March 2011, after four months of previews (the longest preview period for any show in Broadway history), following artistic differences with the producers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Taymor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

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2010s2 titlesJJulie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream2014 · as Director58.5KKurosawa's Way2011 · as Self58.3
2000s2 titlesAAcross the Universe2007 · as Director64.8FFrida2002 · as Director68.7
1970s1 titleGGreat Performances1971 · as Director · series64.1

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Julie Taymor

J
born1952
known forDirecting
titles on site5
best title rank#735 · Great Performances (1971)
avg GRM62.9
honors11 · Emmy — Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming, 1993
Honors
  • 1993Emmy — Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming
  • 2017Disney Legends
  • 2016Annual award ACFK
  • 1998Tony Award — Best Direction of a Musical
  • 1998Tony Award — Best Costume Design
  • 1991MacArthur Fellows Program
  • 1989Guggenheim Fellowship
  • —Laurence Olivier Awards
  • —Richard Rodgers Awards — Musical Theatre
  • —Fulbright Scholarship
  • —Drama League Award
Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She had been the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before leaving in March 2011, after four months of previews (the longest preview period for any show in Broadway history), following artistic differences with the producers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Taymor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

ranked on this site

2010s

2 titles
J58.5Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream2014 · as DirectorK58.3Kurosawa's Way2011 · as Self

2000s

2 titles
A64.8Across the Universe2007 · as DirectorF68.7Frida2002 · as Director

1970s

1 title
G64.1Great Performances1971 · as Director · series

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