Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated American writer, director and independent filmmaker.
Baumbach is the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and Village Voice critic Georgia Brown. He graduated from Brooklyn's Midwood High School in 1987 and received his B.A. from Vassar College in 1991.
Baumbach made his writing and directing debut at the age of 26 with Kicking and Screaming (1995...
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Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated American writer, director and independent filmmaker.
Baumbach is the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and Village Voice critic Georgia Brown. He graduated from Brooklyn's Midwood High School in 1987 and received his B.A. from Vassar College in 1991.
Baumbach made his writing and directing debut at the age of 26 with Kicking and Screaming (1995), a comedy about four young men who graduate from college and refuse to move on with their lives. The film starred Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, and Carlos Jacott and premiered in 1995 at the New York Film Festival. Baumbach was chosen as one of Newsweek's "Ten New Faces of 1996".
In 1997 he wrote and directed Mr. Jealousy, a film about a young writer so jealous about his girlfriend that he sneaks into the group therapy sessions of her ex-boyfriend to discover what kind of relationship they had. He then co-wrote (under the name Jesse Carter)...
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