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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

42

Gender

Male

Birthday

1985-01-19 (40 years old)

Place of Birth

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Also Known As

데미언 샤젤

데이미언 셔젤

达米恩·查泽雷

Дэмьен Шазелл

دیمین شزل

Damien Chazelle

Biography

Damien Sayre Chazelle (/ʃəˈzɛl/; born January 19, 1985) is a French-American filmmaker. He directed the psychological drama Whiplash (2014), the musical romance La La Land (2016), the biographical drama First Man (2018), and the period black comedy Babylon (2022). For Whiplash, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His biggest commercial success came with La La Land, nominated for 14 Academy Awards, winning six, including Best Director, making him the youngest person to win the award at age 32. He has also directed two episodes of the Netflix limited series The Eddy (2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Damien Chazelle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting

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Beeswax

2009

Beeswax

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Directing