Alan Taylor

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Alan Taylor (born January 13, 1959) is an American television director, film director, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his work on television series such as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Mad Men, and Game of Thrones. He also directed films such as Palookaville, Thor: The Dark World, Terminator Genisys, and The Many Saints of Newark. In 2007, Taylor won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for The Sopranos episode "Kennedy and Heidi." In 2008 and 2018, he was also nominated in the same category for the Mad Men episode "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and the Game of Thrones episode "Beyond the Wall," respectively. Taylor's father, James J. Taylor, was a private in the U.S. Army translating for Voice of America, stationed in Yokohama, who subsequently held numerous jobs before becoming a videographer in Washington, D.C. Taylor's mother, Mimi Cazort, was curator emerita for the National Gallery of Canada. His sister is the indie rock musician Anna Domino. He spent part of his life in Manor Park, Ottawa, Canada, and attended Manor Park Public School and Lisgar Collegiate Institute high school. As part of the Communications Club at Lisgar, he acted in its production of The Mouse That Roared. He went on to major in history at the University of Toronto and then at New York City's Columbia University before transferring to New York University in his late 20s to study film under instructors including director Martin Scorsese. Taylor has directed for numerous programs on both network television and premium cable, most often on HBO. Taylor's early work on television includes work on The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and The West Wing. Taylor joined the crew of the HBO western drama Deadwood as a director for the first season in 2004. Taylor directed the pilot episodes of Mad Men ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes") and Bored to Death, as well as subsequent episodes of each. He joined the HBO series Game of Thrones, directing seven episodes, including the critically acclaimed season 1 episode "Baelor." He worked on a television adaptation of the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 science fiction novel Roadside Picnic for the WGN America network. Besides his television work, Taylor's early films include Palookaville, The Emperor's New Clothes, and Kill the Poor. In the 2010s, Taylor began working on large-budget blockbuster films. He was hired to direct Thor: The Dark World (2013), a superhero film and sequel to 2011's Thor. He was approached by Marvel producer Kevin Feige following director Patty Jenkins's exit from the project and hoped he would inject a darker tone into the project after seeing Taylor's work on Game of Thrones. Taylor's next film was Terminator Genisys, a film that Taylor hoped to fix following his reading of the script, citing his love of the first two Terminator films. After directing nine episodes for the HBO series The Sopranos, Taylor was approached by show creator David Chase to return to direct the 2021 prequel film The Many Saints of Newark. In August 2022, it was announced that Taylor was hired to direct multiple episodes of the second season of House of the Dragon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Alan Taylor est un réalisateur américain né en 1965. Il officie surtout dans les séries télévisées. Après avoir mis en scène son premier court métrage, Alan Taylor réalise un épisode de la saison 1 de la série Homicide (1993) - il réalisera par la suite un épisode de la saison 4 et un de la saison 7 - et met en scène son premier long métrage Les Amateurs en 1995. Très actif à la télévision, il dirige plusieurs épisodes de séries considérées comme parmi les meilleures au monde : Oz (1997), Les Soprano (1999), A la Maison Blanche (id.), Deadwood (2004) ou encore Rome (2005). En 2007, Alan Taylor est engagé pour réaliser le pilote de la série Mad Men qui se déroule dans les années 60 dans le milieu de la pub. Il sera en charge de l'épisode suivant ainsi que de deux autres épisodes au cours de la première et deuxième saison de la série. Après être à nouveau passé sur des séries encensées comme Bored to death (2009), Boardwalk Empire (2010) ou Nurse Jackie (id.), il atterrit sur le phénomène Game of Thrones (2011) en réalisant les fameux deux derniers épisodes de la saison 1. Il enchaîne sur la saison 2 en dirigeant pas moins de quatre épisodes. Appelé par Marvel Studios après ses nombreux succès télévisuels, Alan Taylor revient à la direction de long métrage sur la suite de Thor (2011) de Kenneth Branagh, Thor : Le Monde des Ténèbres (2013) où il retrouve le casting du premier film, aussi vu en partie dans Avengers (2012) de Joss Whedon. Il rejoint alors les réalisateurs qui mettent en place l'Univers Cinématographique de Marvel en dirigeant un film pilier pour la suite des aventures de la ligue des super-héros dans le prochain Avengers : Age of Ultron (2015). Valeur sûre sollicitée pour la réalisation de blockbusters très ambitieux, Alan Taylor est choisi pour mettre en scène Terminator: Genisys, cinquième film de la lucrative franchise qui sort en salles en 2015.

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DepartmentJobMovie / TV ShowGenresReleaseRating
DirectingDirectorThor: The Dark World65% · 17,510
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