David Fincher Biography
David Fincher is an American film director and producer, best known for his dark, atmospheric films and his meticulous attention to detail. Fincher was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and also The Social Network (2010). For the Social Network, Fincher won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction.
Fincher is also known for having directed Alien 3 in his directorial debut. He is then most known for films in the thriller genre, including Seven (1995), The Game (1997), Fight Club (1999), Panic Room (2002), Zodiac (2007), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and Gone Girl (2014).
David was also instrumental in the creation of the Netflix series House of Cards (2013–2018) and also Mind hunter (2017–present).
Fincher’s films Zodiac and The Social Network are ranked in BBC’s 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century.
David Fincher Age
Fincher was born on August 28, 1962 in Denver, Colorado, U.S. He is [agecalc birthdate=1962-08-28]
David Fincher Family
Fincher was born to Claire Mae (née Boettcher), a mental health nurse from South Dakota who worked in drug addiction programs, and his father Howard Kelly “Jack” Fincher, an author from Oklahoma who then worked as a reporter and bureau chief for Life. His father died of cancer in April 2003.
David knew from a young age he wanted to go into filmmaking. When he was two years old, his family moved to San Anselmo, California, where also filmmaker George Lucas was one of his neighbors.
David Fincher Wife
Fincher married film producer Ceán Chaffin in 1996. Fincher was previously married to model–photographer Donya Fiorentino (born 1967) in 1990 and they divorced in 1995.
David Fincher Daughter
Donya and David have a daughter, Phenix Imogen Fincher, born 1994.
David Fincher Career
David moved to Ashland, Oregon in his teens, where he graduated from Ashland High School. Fincher directed plays and designed sets and lighting after school. Fincher was a non-union projectionist at a second-run movie theater, production assistant at the local television news station KOBI in Medford, Oregon, and also took on other odd jobs such as fry cook, busboy, and also dishwasher.
He began making movies at age eight with an 8mm camera inspired by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
He was employed at Korty Films as a production head. Fincher then moved up the ranks and also became a visual effects producer, where he worked on the animated Twice Upon a Time (1983).
Fincher was hired by Industrial Light & Magic in 1983 as an assistant cameraman and also matte photographer. He also worked on Return of the Jedi (1983) and Indiana Jones and also the Temple of Doom (1984).
David Fincher Director
Fincher left ILM to direct a commercial for the American Cancer Society that depicted a fetus smoking a cigarette in 1984.
The commercial quickly brought Fincher to the attention of producers in Los Angeles, and he was then given the chance to direct the 1985 Rick Springfield documentary The Beat of the Live Drum.
Set on a directing career, David co-founded video-production company Propaganda Films and also started off directing music videos and commercials.
Seven David Fincher
David read Andrew Kevin Walker’s screenplay for Seven (1995), which was then actually Walker’s original draft with the current ending that was already removed by then attached director Jeremiah Chechik.
David expressed no interest in directing after reading the revised draft, until New Line Cinema agreed to keep the original ending.
It also stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, R. Lee Ermey, and Kevin Spacey, and then tells the story of two detectives (played by Pitt and Freeman) tracking down a serial killer who bases his killings on the seven deadly sins.
The film was one of the highest-earning films of 1995, grossing more than $320 million internationally and also positively received by film critics.
David Fincher Gone Girl
David directed the adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl in 2014. It starred Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Gone Girl earned Pike an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, David also received his third Golden Globe nomination.
David Fincher Social Network
He directed the 2010 film The Social Network, about the legal battles of Mark Zuckerberg and also the founding of Facebook. Social Network features an Oscar-winning screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, adapted from the book The Accidental Billionaires.
Its filming started in October 2009 and was then released a year later, to critical acclaim. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross then created the Oscar-winning soundtrack for the film. Social Network went on to win many awards, which include three Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and also Best Film Editing.
The Fall David Fincher
David presented the 2006 adventure fantasy film The Fall, directed and co-written by Tarsem Singh alongside Spike Jonze.
David Fincher House Of Cards
Fincher is an executive producer of the Netflix television series House of Cards, of which he also directed the first two episodes.
The series has since received positive reviews, earning nine Primetime Emmy nominations which include Outstanding Drama Series and then winning Fincher the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the first episode.
David Fincher Fight Club
David agreed to direct a screen adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel Fight Club for 20th Century Fox in August 1997, his second film with the studio after the troubled production of Alien 3.
The film then stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter and also follows an insomniac office worker who is known simply as The Narrator, played by Norton.
Norton opens up a club devoted exclusively to bare knuckle fighting for men with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt).
Fight Club was then an early disappointment at the box office and it initially received mixed reviews. Fight Club received a reassessment from many critics in the years following its release.
Entertainment Weekly had originally given the film a D- but later ranked the DVD #1 on its list of 50 Essential DVDs.
David Fincher Utopia
Fincher signed a three-series deal with HBO for Utopia, Shakedown, and Videosyncrazy in 2014. It was then set to be an adaptation of the British series of the same name. In August 2015, some budget disputes between Fincher and the network halted production of Utopia.
The project then received second life at Amazon. This is with the streamer ordering the project to series with a 2019 release.
David Fincher Style
David likes to map out camera movements with computer-generated imagery, commission intricate sets, then gets heavily involved in post-production, and also re-shoot footage after the principal photography has wrapped. Fincher does not normally use hand-held cameras when he shoots a film, he prefers cameras on a tripod. David’s most frequent use of a hand-held camera was for Seven, in which five scenes were shot that way.
Fincher also likes to confuse audiences with his camerawork. Close-ups are also uncommon in Fincher’s films, and he then tries to move his cameras as little as possible. The interior of a refrigerator can also be seen in a number of Fincher’s films.
In a Blu-ray bonus featurette of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, David stated: “I think people are perverts. I’ve maintained that. That’s the foundation of my career.”
David Fincher Next Movie
- World War Z
Fincher New Movie
- World War Z 2
- The Girl in the Spider’s Web
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo
- Aerosmith: Big Ones You Can Look at
David Fincher Upcoming Movies
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo
- Aerosmith: Big Ones You Can Look at
David Fincher Filmy | David Fincher Filmographie | David Fincher Filmografia | David Fincher Movies List
- Alien 3 (1992)
- Seven (1995)
- The Game (1997)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Panic Room (2002)
- Zodiac (2007)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
- The Social Network (2010)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
- Gone Girl (2014)
- World War Z 2 (TBA)
Fincher Music Videos
Some of his music videos include:
- Dance This World Away”, Rick Springfield (1984)
- “Celebrate Youth”, Rick Springfield (1984)
- “Bop Til You Drop”, Rick Springfield (1984)
- “Shame”, The Motels (1985)
- “Shock”, The Motels (1985)
- “Celebrate Youth”, Rick Springfield (1985)
- “All The Love In The World”, The Outfield (1986)
- “We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off”, Jermaine Stewart (1986)
- “Every time You Cry”, The Outfield (1986)
- “One Simple Thing”, Stabilizers (1986)
- “Stay”, Howard Hewett (1986)
- “She Comes On”, Wire Train (1987)
- “Endless Nights”, Eddie Money (1987)
- “Downtown Train”, Patty Smyth (1987)
- “I Don’t Mind At All”, Bourgeois Tagg (1987)
- “Notorious”, Loverboy (1987)
- “Love Will Rise Again”, Loverboy (1987)
- “Johnny B”, The Hooters[65] (1987)
- “Storybook Love”, Willy DeVille (from The Princess Bride) (1987)
- “Can I Hold You”, Colin Hay (1987)
- “No Surrender”, The Outfield (1987)
- “Say You Will”, Foreigner (1987)
- “Don’t Tell Me The Time”, Martha Davis (1987)
- “Tell It To the Moon”, Martha Davis (1988)
- “Heart of Gold”, Johnny Hates Jazz (1988)
- “Englishman in New York”, Sting[65] (1988)
- “Shattered Dreams” (second version),
Johnny Hates Jazz (1988) - “Get Rhythm”, Ry Cooder (1988)
- “Most of All”, Jody Watley (1988)
David Fincher Oscar
- Best Director
2011 · The Social Network
Nominee - Best Director
2009 · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nomine.
