Paul Schrader
Writer, Director, Actor, Producer
July 22, 1946 (79 years)
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).
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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).
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Known For
Filmography
| 2024 | Oh, Canada · as Screenplay |
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| 2022 | There Are No Saints · as Screenplay |
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| 2014 | Dying of the Light · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 2007 | The Walker · as Screenplay |
| 1999 | Bringing Out the Dead · as Screenplay |
| 1999 | Forever MineOn Plex |
| 1997 | Affliction · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1997 | Touch · as Screenplay |
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| 1988 | The Last Temptation of Christ · as Screenplay |
| 1987 | Light of Day · as Screenplay |
| 1986 | The Mosquito Coast · as Screenplay |
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| 1982 | Cat People · as Screenplay |
| 1980 | Raging Bull · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
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| 1979 | Old BoyfriendsOn Plex |
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| 1978 | Blue Collar · as Screenplay |
| 1976 | Obsession · as Screenplay |
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| 1974 | The Yakuza · as Screenplay |
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| 2014 | Dying of the LightOn Plex |
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| 1999 | Forever MineOn Plex |
| 1997 | AfflictionOn Plex |
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| 2016 | Dog Eat Dog · as El Greco |
| 2009 | Hollywood's Best Film Directors · as Film Director |
| 2022 | There Are No Saints · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | Old Boyfriends · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 2022 | American Gigolo · as Executive Consultant |
| 2022 | American Gigolo · as Characters |
| 1977 | Rolling Thunder · as Original Story |