Baz Luhrmann

Also Credited As:

Mark Anthony Luhrmann
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Biography

Considered one of the most innovative filmmakers working at the turn of the 21st Century, Australian Baz Luhrmann earned that title after having completed only three of his unmistakably stylized, visual gems. Luhrmann found equal measures of detractors and champions for "Strictly Ballroom" (1992), "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" (1996) and "Moulin Rouge!" (2001), all of which adhered to a specific style developed by Luhrmann and his …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Music

Born

Mark Anthony Luhrmann on September 17, 1962 in Sydney, New South Wales, AU

LATEST CREDITS

The Show Must Go on

Actor

18th Annual American Cinematheque Award

Presenter

The Winter of Our Dreams

Pete

AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

Interviewee

20th Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years

Interviewee

AFI Awards 2001

Actor

The Highest Honor - A True Story

Able Seaman A W Huston

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Australia

Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story By

Strictly Ballroom

Director, Screenplay

The Great Gatsby

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Moulin Rouge

Director, Producer, Screenplay

La Boheme

stage director

81st Annual Academy Awards

Conceived and Directed by ("Musicals Are Back" ), Musical Sketch Writer ("Musicals Are Back" )