Todd Field

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William Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American actor and three-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker.

Early life

Field was born in Pomona, California, where his family owned a poultry farm. When Field turned two, his family and his father began to work as a salesman, and his mother became a school librarian. He became involved with sleight-of-hand and later music at an early age.

Field was a boy in Portland, Maine, USA, a single A-independence minor league baseball team owned by Hollywood actor Bing Russell. Kurt Russell, Bing's uncle and later an actor in his own right, played for the Portland Mavericks during this period. Rob Nelson, a field and Maverick pitching coach, created the first batch of Big League Chew in the Field family kitchen. Nelson and Jim Bouton, a former New York Yankees all-star, told the Wrigley Company in 1980. Over 800 million pouches have been sold around the world since that time.

Education

At the age of 16, Field became a member of Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon. When looking for new players, managed by Larry McVey, the band had become a proving ground and regular stop for Stan Kenton and Mel Tormé. It was here Field performed trombone with his colleague, trumpeter, and future Grammy Award Winner Chris Botti. He spent time at a second-run movie theater as a non-union projectionist. Field graduated from Centennial High School on Portland's east side and briefly attended Southern Oregon State College (now Southern Oregon University) in Ashland on a music scholarship, but left early in his freshman year to study acting with Robert X. Modica at his renowned Carnegie Hall Studio in New York. Field began to perform with the Ark Theatre Company as both an actor and a singer soon after. He obtained his Master of Fine Arts from the AFI Conservatory.

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Career

Since Woody Allen cast him in Radio Days (1987), Field has worked in various capacities as an actor, producer, composer, and screenwriter, as well as a screenwriter. Stanley Kubrick, Victor Nuez, and Carl Franklin followed him on to work with some of America's best filmers, including Stanley Kubrick, Carl Franklin. Field was encouraged by Franklin and Nurez, both AFI alumni, to apply as a Directing Fellow at the AFI, which he did in 1992. Since then, he has been awarded the Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award from the AFI, the Satyajit Ray Award from the British Film Institute, and a Jury Award from the Sundance Film Festival. His short films have been seen at numerous venues around the world and at the Museum of Modern Art in Atlanta.

With the debut of In the Bedroom, a film based on Andre Dubus's short story "Killings," Field became one of Hollywood's hottest new writer/directors. (Kubrick and Dubus were among Field's mentors; they died shortly before the production of In the Bedroom.) Five Academy Awards have been given to the Bedroom, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Tom Wilkinson's first nomination), Best Actress (Sissy Spacek's sixth), Supporting Actress (Marisa Tomei, her second), and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was shot in Rockland, Maine, a New England town where Field lives. The house where he, his wife (Serena Rathbun), and their four children lived was also used as the setting for a single sequence. Field handled the camera himself on several of the shots, and Rathbun and Spacek did some of the set layout, and Field handled the camera himself on some of the shots.

Dennis Lim wrote in the Village Voice:

Newsweek's David Ansen wrote about the film's release: "I'm not sure" about it.

"Field has pulled off something here that I doubt no American filmmaker could ever master again: his violent behavior makes it seem genuinely shocking," Anthony Quinn of The Independent said.

Field was named Director of the Year by the National Board of Review, and his script was named Best Original Screenplay for his work on In the Bedroom. The Los Angeles Film Critics Circle named Field Best First Film of the Year, and the New York Film Critics Circle named Field Best First Film of the Year. In the Bedroom, six American Film Institute awards, including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, three Golden Globe nominations, and five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress, and two others for Field as screenwriter and producer were among the six finalists, including Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress. Field was honoured with the Franklin Schaffner Alumni Award by the American Film Institute, which was awarded by the Franklin Schaffner Memorial Institute.

The February 2020 issue of New York Magazine includes In the Bedroom, Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, Dr. Strangelove, Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid, The Conversation, Nashville, Taxi Driver, The Elephant Man, Pulp Fiction, There Will Be Blood, and Roma as "the Best Movies That Lost The Best Picture At The Oscars."

Scott of The New York Times wrote:

Matt Mazur of the International Cinephile Society called the film "subversive" and designed to misorient the observer with "seemingly non-connected photos that convey a tone and a mood of disquiet." Fields' methods were compared to those of Sergei Eisenstein, D. W. Griffith, Georges Méliès, and Edwin S. Porter.

Serena Rathbun, one of Field's creative team, returned to work with him on the film. Field, in a 2006 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, said he quit acting and began making his own films after Rathbun told him, "Do what you want to do." Don't get lost in "get lost." Field discussed the importance of Rathbun as his creative partner later this year, referring to a discussion with her where she gave him the most pivotal scene: "For me, the film is unthinkable without it."

Field did not have no film or television directing for the 15 years that Little Children's Field did not do, as many film journalists complained. "It's definitely time for Field to pull one down the middle," Nicholas Bell wrote in his 2015 Ioncinema piece, "Top ten American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action." In the meantime, we'll just have to watch In the Bedroom for the umpteenth time."

Field was involved in a number of film projects, including an adaptation of Jess Walter's book The Creed of Violence, set during the Mexican Revolution in the 1970s Northwest; a coming-of-age Minor League Baseball story set in the 1970s Northwest; and a film about U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl.

Field appeared on a proposed television adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's book Purity, which was to be limited to 20 hours on Showtime in 2016. Field, Franzen, and playwright David Hare would co-write the book. Daniel Craig will appear as Andreas Wolf and Field, Franzen, Craig, Hare, and Scott Rudin will executive produce the film. Franzen said on The Diane Rehm Show in 2016 that he was learning adaptation from Field, who regarded him as a "master" of the style. Hare, on the other hand, said in a February 2018 interview with The Times that he doubted it would ever be completed. "It was one of the richest and most interesting six weeks of my life," Todd Field, Jonathan Franzen, and Daniel Craig screaming out the tale. Hare said, "They're very interesting people."

"I set my sights on a very specific way on some stuff that was obviously impossible to get made," Field told the New York Times in 2022.

Field's next project is Tár, which he wrote and directed, and it stars Cate Blanchett as the title character, fictional classical music conductor, and composer Lydia Tár. In August 2021, production began. The film takes place in Berlin. It premiered in September 2022 at the Venice International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Lion and Queer Lion, with Cate Blanchett winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave the film a 91 out of 100, indicating a Metascore "Must-See" film and "Universal Acclaim" from critics.

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