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John Whitney Stillman (born January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director and actor known for his 1990 film Metropolitan, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Whit Stillman. Director: Love & Friendship. Whit Stillman was born in 1952 and raised in Cornwall in upstate New York, the son of a impoverished debutante from Philadelphia and a Democratic politician from Washington D.C. Stillman graduated from Harvard in 1973 and started out as a journalist in Manhattan, New York City.
29 Apr 2016 · The writer-director of such witty cultural sendups as Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco talks about that early-career trilogy; his new Jane Austen adaptation, Love and Friendship; and the filmmaker’s work of capturing the past.
Whit Stillman was an editorial assistant at Doubleday. He also wrote for The Harvard Crimson, The Wall Street Journal, Harper's, The Guardian, Vogue... His first novel "The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards" was awarded the 2014 Fitzgerald Award.
30 Ogo 2020 · Whit Stillman's Metropolitan: An Oral History of the Preppiest, WASPiest, Wittiest Comedy of Heirs. On its 30th anniversary, the doomed bourgeoisie, debutantes in distress and founding...
Whit Stillman is the writer/director of five films: the Oscar-nominated Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Damsels in Distress (2011), and the Jane Austen adaptation Love & Friendship (2015). He started out in journalism and book publishing and has written two novels related to his movies.
Whit Stillman has directed five films, Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, Damsels in Distress and Love & Friendship. Stillman also directed Homicide: Life on the Street (season 5, episode 7 ).
