Hal Ashby

監督, 俳優, 編集者, プロデューサー, 脚本

1929年9月2日 — 1988年12月27日 (59年)
Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 – December 27, 1988) was an American film director and editor associated with the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. Before his career as a director, Ashby edited films for Norman Jewison, notably The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Editing, and In the Heat of the Night (1967), which earned him an Oscar for the same category.

Ashby received a third Oscar nomination, this time for Best Director, for Coming Home (1978). Other films directed by Ashby include The Landlord (1970), Harold and Maude (1971), The Last Detail (1973), Shampoo (1975), Bound for Glory (1976) and Being There (1979).

Born William Hal Ashby in Ogden, Utah, he grew up in a Mormon household. His tumultuous childhood as part of a dysfunctional family included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide, and dropping out of high school. Ashby was married and divorced by the time he was 19.

As Ashby was entering adult life, he moved from Utah to California where he soon became an assistant film editor. After being nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing in 1967 for The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, his big break occurred in 1968 when he won the award for In the Heat of the Night. At the urging of producer Norman Jewison, Ashby directed his first film The Landlord in 1970. While his birth date placed him squarely within the realm of the prewar generation, the filmmaker quickly embraced the hippie lifestyle, adopting vegetarianism and growing his hair long. In 1970 he married actress Joan Marshall. While they remained married until his death in 1988, the two had separated by the mid-seventies, with Marshall never forgiving Ashby, along with Warren Beatty and Robert Towne, for dramatizing certain unflattering elements of her life in Shampoo.

Over the next 16 years, Ashby directed several acclaimed and popular films, many were about outsiders and adventurers traversing the pathways of life. Aside from Shampoo, Ashby's most commercially successful film was the Vietnam War drama Coming Home (1978). Starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, both in Academy Award-winning performances, it was for this film that Ashby earned his only Best Director nomination from the Academy for his work. After Being There (his last film to achieve widespread attention), Ashby became notoriously reclusive and eccentric, retreating to his home in Malibu Colony. Later it was learned that Ashby was using drugs, and he slowly became difficult and unemployable.

Attempting to turn a corner in his declining career, Ashby stopped using drugs, trimmed his hair and beard, and began to frequently attend Hollywood parties wearing a navy blue blazer so as to suggest that he was once again employable. Despite these efforts, he could only find work as a television director.

Ashby died on December 27, 1988 at his home in Malibu, California.

The Last Detail, Bound for Glory, Coming Home, and Being There were all nominated for the Palme d'Or.

Plex上の映画と番組

  • 夜の大捜査線
    夜の大捜査線1967
  • 大いなる西部
    大いなる西部1958

次として知られている:

  • 夜の大捜査線
    夜の大捜査線1967
  • チャンス
    チャンス1979
  • ハロルドとモード 少年は虹を渡る
    ハロルドとモード 少年は虹を渡る1971
  • さらば冬のかもめ
    さらば冬のかもめ1973
  • 華麗なる賭け
    華麗なる賭け1968
  • 帰郷
    帰郷1978
  • シャンプー
    シャンプー1975
  • アメリカ上陸作戦
    アメリカ上陸作戦1966
  • ウディ・ガスリー わが心のふるさと
    ウディ・ガスリー わが心のふるさと1976
  • 800万の死にざま
    800万の死にざま1986
  • 真夜中の青春
    真夜中の青春1970
  • スラッガーズ・ワイフ
    スラッガーズ・ワイフ1985
  • 大狂乱
    大狂乱1982
  • ザ・ローリングストーンズ
    ザ・ローリングストーンズ1982
  • Second-Hand Hearts
    Second-Hand Hearts1982
  • シカゴ・シカゴ/ボスをやっつけろ!
    シカゴ・シカゴ/ボスをやっつけろ!1969
  • The Rolling Stones: From The Vault - Hampton Coliseum: Live In 1981
    The Rolling Stones: From The Vault - Hampton Coliseum: Live In 19812014
  • The Stronger
    The Stronger1976

作品リスト

1982
Lookin' to Get Out · as Man Speaking On Tv (uncredited)
1980
Second-Hand Hearts · as Bearded Man In Police Car
1979
Being There · as Man At File Cabinet At The Washington Post (uncredited)
1978
Coming Home · as Passenger In Porsche Speedster Flashing The Peace Sign
1973
The Last Detail · as Bearded Man At Bar In Darts Scene
1971
Harold and Maude · as Bearded Man Watching Model Train (uncredited)
1970
The Landlord · as Groom In Opening Shot (uncredited)

1976
The Stronger · as Executive Producer
1969
Gaily, Gaily · as Associate Producer
1968

2018
Hal · as Self (archive Footage)
2004
1989
The 61st Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Memorial Tribute
1975
Sunday meetings · as Self
1968
The 40th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner
1961
1953

1967
In the Heat of the Night · as Producer's AssistantPlex上
1964
The Best Man · as Editorial Consultant
1961
The Children's Hour · as Assistant Editor
1958
The Big Country · as Assistant EditorPlex上