Jeff Nichols Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Screenwriter , Director , Executive Producer more
Nationality American
Birth December 7, 1978 (Little Rock, Arkansas, United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Jeff Nichols was born into a modest family. The young man studied at the North Carolina School of Arts and Cinema and graduated in 2001. During his classes, he met director David Gordon Green and the man who would be his appointed cinematographer, Adam Stone .

After his studies, Jeff directed a few short films and worked as a production manager, fruitful experiences for the director who became familiar with the world of cinema. In 2007, the director shot his first feature film, Shotgun Stories . Financed with the help of his relatives and the company Upload Films , the work tells the story of brothers quarreling after the death of their father and sinking into a spiral of unbridled violence. Shot in just 21 days and carried by the visceral performance of Michael Shannon , the film is unanimously praised at festivals.

You then have to wait five years to see Nichols’ second feature film. This wait is not in vain; in fact, the filmmaker has created a nervous and distressing apocalyptic drama, Take Shelter . Once again led by an oppressive Michael Shannon and on the verge of madness, the film received a wonderful reception at Cannes where it left crowned with the Grand Prix of the International Critics’ Week and the SACD Prize. The feature film was a great critical success and did quite well in theaters. Jeff Nichols therefore became a world-famous figure.

The one who says he is strongly influenced by the cinema of Terrence Malick returns in 2013 with Mud . This time, Matthew McConaughey plays the lead role in the film. Michael Shannon is, however, still present and brings his charisma to the film through his atypical physique. This new drama tells the story of two teenagers who befriend a mysterious man on an island in Mississippi. In 2016, Nichols released his new film, Midnight Special , a sci-fi thriller about the escape of a father accompanied by his young son with supernatural powers. For one scene, Loving marks the fifth collaboration between Michael Shannon and Jeff Nichols in as many films; now inseparable from the South, the filmmaker this time tells the story of a mixed couple whose love goes against the racial laws of Arkansas. For this film, he reunites with Joel Edgerton , whom he has already directed in Midnight Special, and for the occasion draws on the talents of rising actress Ruth Negga .

Author: Vincent Formica