John schlesinger

John Richard Schlesinger (London, February 16, 1926 - Los Angeles, July 25, 2003) was a British film director.

After World War II, he began studying film directing and played small roles in movies (Oh, Rosalinda and The Battle of the Río de la Plata), until He made the short film Sunday in the Park in 1957.

He was commissioned by the BBC to make a monthly film for the arts program Monitor, one of whose episodes, The innocent eyes, attracted the attention of Edgar Anstey, Director of British Transport Films, with whom he collaborated in the production of the documentary Terminus, Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 1962.

In 1965, he made the film Darling, which won Julie Christie the Oscar for best actress.

He achieved his greatest triumph with Midnight Cowboy, a film based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy and starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. It received seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Director.

In 1971 he directed one of his most elaborate films, Sunday, Bloody Sunday, about the parallel relationship of a homosexual Jewish doctor (Peter Finch) and a divorced woman (Glenda Jackson) with a young bisexual man. (Murray Head).

His later films include Marathon Man (1976) with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, Pacific Heights (1990) with Michael Keaton and Melanie Griffith, and Something Almost Perfect (2000) with Madonna and Rupert Everett.

He died at the age of 77 at a medical center in Palm Springs, Los Angeles, where he was admitted due to a stroke.

Filmography

• A Kind of Loving (1962)
• Billy Liar (1963)
• Darling (1965)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• Sunday, damn Sunday (1971)
• Like lobster plague (1974)
• Marathon Man (1976)
• Yankis (1979)
• The Falcon Game (1985)
• Believers (The Believers) (1987)
• Madame Sousatzka (1988)
• Pacific Heights (1990)
• The innocent (1993)
• Eye for eye (1995)
• Robert Poste's daughter (1996)
• The Next Best Thing (2000)

Awards and distinctions

Oscar Awards