Martin Brest
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Martin Brest (born August 8, 1951) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Education
Brest was born in the Bronx, New York, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1969, from New York University's School of the Arts in 1973 and from the AFI Conservatory with an M.F.A. degree in 1977.
Career
George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg appeared in Going in Style (1979), his first major studio debut (1979). Brest was later hired to direct WarGames (1983), which starred Matthew Broderick, but he was fired during development and replaced with John Badham.
Brest later produced Beverly Hills Cop (1984), starring Eddie Murphy. The film earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Brest appeared in the development of Rain Man (1988), starring Tom Cruise in the role opposite Dustin Hoffman before Barry Levinson directed the film.
Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin appeared in Brest's next film, the action-comedy Midnight Run (1988). Brest received another Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, as well as a Best Actor Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy nomination for De Niro, De Niro.
The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama was given to Scent of a Woman (1992). Al Pacino and screenwriter Bo Goldman received Golden Globe awards for the film. In addition,, the film received four Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Screenplay (Adapted), and Best Actor, with Al Pacino winning Best Actor.
Meet Joe Black (1998), starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins, was Brest's next film after a 1934's Death Takes a Holiday. The film's annual box office return to $44.6 million was disappointing, but overseas, it did much better, grossing an additional $98.3 million for a global total of $142.9 million.
Brest wrote and directed Gigli (2003), starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. During filming, production company Revolution Studios took creative control from him, resulting in a dramatically rewritten and re-shot version of the original film that was never released. It was one of the most popular films of its time, with a scathing critical reception, some commentators deeming it one of the worst films of all time, and a disastrous box office showing. Brest hasn't directed or produced a film since. According to a 2014 Playboy story, he seemed to have left public life entirely after Gigli's demise, but in 2021, he appeared as a featured guest at a screening of Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run in Los Angeles, where fellow filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson was interviewed.
The Hot Dogs for Gauguin, a 1972 New York University student film starring a then unknown Danny DeVito, was one of 25 films selected by the National Film Registry of Congress in 2009 to "be preserved as cultural, artistic, or historical treasures."