Biography
film director
James Mangold
James Mangold (New York,
1964), the son of artists,
studied Acting and Directing at the California Institute of Arts and
took
courses in Cinema at Columbia University. After making a series of
short films,
he was hired by Disney when he was 21 to collaborate on the screenplay
of the
animated film Oliver
& Company. His debut film, Heavy (1995),
was presented at the
Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize for
Directing. In
1997 Miramax produced his second full-length film, Copland,
and in 2000
Angelina Jolie starred in his third film, Girl, Interrupted,
which won
her an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. He is now completing the
remake of 3:10
for Yuma, the Delmer Daves western from 1957 starring Glenn
Ford.
FILMOGRAFIA
Heavy (Dolly’s
Restaurant, 1995), Copland
(id., 1997), Girl, Interrupted (Ragazze
interrotte,
1999), Kate and Leopold (id., 2001),
Identity (Identità,
2003), Walk the line (2005), 3:10 to
Youma (2005).