Carl Franklin

Carl Franklin was born on Apr 11, 1949 in USA. Carl Franklin's big-screen debut came with Five on the Black Hand Side directed by Oscar Williams in 1973, strarring Marvin (as Carl Mikal Franklin). Carl Franklin is known for One False Move directed by Carl Franklin, Bill Paxton stars as Dale 'Hurricane' Dixon and Cynda Williams as Fantasia. Carl Franklin has got 10 awards and 11 nominations so far. The most recent award Carl Franklin achieved is Image Awards (NAACP). The upcoming new movie Carl Franklin plays is Bless Me, Ultima which will be released on Sep 17, 2012.

Carl Franklin studied history and dramatic arts at UC Berkeley. After several years as a television actor with guest shots, roles in TV movies, miniseries, and appearing as a regular on a few unsuccessful series, he returned to school and received his master's degree in directing from the American Film Institute. He was then hired by Roger Corman's Concorde Films because they were impressed with his thesis film.Although it took several years, in 1992 Franklin made his directorial breakthrough with the crime drama Un faux mouvement (1992), the story of a manhunt for three small-time criminals after a drug deal that had gone bad. The film also earned him the New Generation Award by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association in 1992, the MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker and the IFP Spirit Award for Best Director in 1993.Franklin wrote and directed Denzel Washington in Le diable en robe bleue (1995). Despite rave reviews from the critics, the film failed to attract an audience. In 1998 Franklin directed the adaptation of Anna Quindlen's autobiographical novel Contre-jour (1998) with Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, and William Hurt. This film, too, had difficulty at the box office, but earned Streep Oscar and Golden Globe nominations as a mother dying of cancer.He returned to television for a few years directing the series Ménage à trois (1995). In 2002 he returned to films with Crimes et pouvoir (2002).