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Aliases: 폴 슈레이더

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Homepage: http://paulschrader.org

Movie Involvements: 97

TV Involvements: 5


Most Famous Work

Biography

Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became widely known for writing the screenplay of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). He later continued his collaboration with Scorsese, writing or co-writing Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Schrader has also directed 24 films, including Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Cat People (1982), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017); the latter earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts troubled men struggling through an existential crisis that is then punctuated by a violent, cathartic event. Raised in a strict Calvinist family, Schrader attended Calvin College before electing to pursue film studies at UCLA on the encouragement of film critic Pauline Kael. He then worked as a film scholar and critic, publishing the book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972) before making the transition to screenwriting in 1974. The success of Taxi Driver in 1976 brought greater attention to his work, and Schrader began directing his own films beginning with Blue Collar (co-written with his brother, Leonard Schrader). His three most recent films have been described by Schrader as a loose trilogy: First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021), and Master Gardener (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Schrader, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

American Gigolo
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7

American Gigolo

(2022) Executive Consultant
Taxi Driver
Average
8

Taxi Driver

(1976) Screenplay
Raging Bull
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8

Raging Bull

(1980) Screenplay
American Gigolo
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6

American Gigolo

(1980) Writer
First Reformed
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7

First Reformed

(2018) Writer
Dying of the Light
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5

Dying of the Light

(2014) Screenplay
The Card Counter
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6

The Card Counter

(2021) Screenplay
The Last Temptation of Christ
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7

The Last Temptation of Christ

(1988) Screenplay

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2022 Self
Self
2020 Self
N/A
Self
2019 Self
2017 Self
2016 El Greco
Self
2015 Self
Self
2013 Self
Self
2011 Self
Self
2010 Self
2009 Himself
Self
2008 Himself
Himself
Self
2006 Self
2005 Self
Self
2004 Self
Self
Self
2003 Self
Self
Self
1999 Self
1997 Self
1995 Himself (uncredited)
1993 Self
1990 Self
Self
Self
1984 Self
Himself
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Writing

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2022 Executive Consultant
Executive Producer
1979 Executive Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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