David Mackenzie

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Life and career

Mackenzie began his directorial career with a sequence of well-regarded shorts, the first being Dirty Diamonds (1994). After that came California Sunshine (1997), Somersault (1999), and Marcie's Dowry (2000). All were nominated for and received numerous awards around the world.

The Last Great Wilderness (2002), Mackenzie's debut feature film. Alastair Mackenzie, his brother, plays a character aiming for revenge by burning down his wife's house in the Highlands. The film opens as a comedy gangster thriller but then shifts into horror film territory before defying all expectations and delivering something entirely different. It debuted at TIFF in 2002.

With his celebrated adaptation of Scot Beat writer Alexander Trocchi's cult book, Young Adam (2003), he continued the series. It features Ewan McGregor as a young drifter on a river barge disrupting his employers' lives while still masking the fact that he knows more about a deceased woman found in the river than he admits. Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, and Emily Mortimer appear alongside. The film premiered in Cannes, 2003, and performed TIFF and Telluride, winning Best Film and Best Director at the 2004 BAFTA Scotland awards. Both Tilda Swinton and Ewan McGregor received Scottish BAFTA awards for their performances. At the London Critics Circle Awards, the film also received the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature at EIFF and British Newcomer of the Year, as well as several European Film Academy Awards.

Asylum, a Patrick McGrath's book and starring Natasha Richardson, Sir Ian McKellen, Hugh Bonneville, and Marton Coskas, was directed by Mackenzie in 2005. It follows Richardson's behavior as she becomes curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty of the murder and disfigurement of his former wife. It was nominated for Berlin's Golden Bear and was awarded the Guild of German Art House Cinemas Award at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival.

Mackenzie's next film, Hallam Foe, starring Jamie Bell and Sophia Myles, was highly regarded by Mackenzie. As he leaves Edinburgh and is confronted by a beautiful woman who seems to be uncannily like his late mother, the film is based on Peter Jinks' book and follows the voyeuristic title character. This film also received several awards, including a Silver Bear in Berlin 2007, the Golden Hitchcock and Kodak Award for Best Independent Film, and many other accolades.

He supervised the sex satire Spread, Mackenzie's first film appearance in the United States in 2009. Ashton Kutcher's LA gigolo debuts as he begins working with a wealthy older client portrayed by Anne Heche. At Sundance, Spread had its premiere.

Mackenzie continued this by returning to Glasgow to make sci-fi romance Perfect Sense (2011). Ewan McGregor and Eva Green's burgeoning romance is set against the backdrop of a global pandemic of people losing their senses one by one. In 2011, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival and received top prizes at international film festivals, including Edinburgh, Bratislava, and Philadelphia International Film Festivals.

Mackenzie directed You Instead (2011) [the United States' Tonight You're Mine] after Perfect Sense. Luke Treadaway and Natalia Tena play two rival rock stars who are handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both set to appear. In 2010, it was shot over five days at T in the Park, Scotland's largest music festival. To shoot amid the chaos of a music festival, the cast and crew had to adopt a kind of guerrilla filmmaking technique. In 2011 and Austin, T in the Park's premiered, as part of the SXSW music and film festival.

Mackenzie's next film was The Prisoner (2013). Jack O'Connell plays a young convict who is transferred to an adult prison, where his former and imprisoned father resides. O'Connell appears alongside Ben Mendelsohn and Rupert Friend. Jonathan Asser's time as a volunteer therapist in HM Prison Wandsworth is the subject of the film. It premiered at Telluride 2013 and went on to win numerous accolades, including the BAFTA Scotland Best Film and Best Director Awards, as well as seven BIFA awards, a record that has a remarkable 99% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Mackenzie made it to the United States to make Hell or High Water (2016), starring Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, and Ben Foster. Two brothers (Pine and Foster) go on a bank robbing spree in Texas, while a Texas Ranger (Bridges) and his accomplice (Gil Birmingham) are followed throughout the film. The film premiered in the 2016 Cannes Uncertain Regard competition, and worldwide attention was paid to it. It was the highest grossing independent film of 2016 in terms of four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and several Golden Globe and BAFTA awards.

Mackenzie produced Damnation, a TV pilot for Universal Cable Productions and the USA Network in late 2016. It's described as a epic saga of the 1930s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloodshed between big money and the downtrodden, God and envy, charlatans, and prophets. In May 2017, he was added to a USA Network series and Netflix outside of the United States.

Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh, and Billy Howle were among the tenth films starring Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Outlaw King starring Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh, and Billy Howle in 2018. In this film, Scottish King Robert the Bruce's true story of David and Goliath as he attempts to defy the occupying English army. Gillian Berrie and Sigma Films produced the film.

Mackenzie's short story What is Important on June 30, 2020 titled What is Important? The COVID-19 pandemic started on Netflix as part of their anthology series Homemade, which follows tales from 17 filmmakers around the world. Ferosa, his son's co-deviced, was co-devised and chronicled her stay in jail under lockout.

Mackenzie and his three children, Hazel Mall, reside in Scotland; Ferosa, Luke, and Arthur.

His father, Royal Navy Rear Admiral David John Mackenzie (3 October 1929 – 26 November 2015), served from 1943 to 1984 and participated in Falklands War, and his mother, Ursula Sybil Balfour (31 January 1940 – 31 July 2015). They were married in 1965 and died in 2015.

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