George Hickenlooper

George Hickenlooper was born on May 25, 1963 in USA. George Hickenlooper's big-screen debut came with Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse directed by Fax Bahr in 1991. George Hickenlooper is known for Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade directed by George Hickenlooper, Billy Bob Thornton stars as Karl Childers and Molly Ringwald as Teresa Tatum. George Hickenlooper has got 7 awards and 8 nominations so far. The most recent award George Hickenlooper achieved is St. Louis International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie George Hickenlooper plays is Casino Jack which will be released on Jan 07, 2011.

George Hickenlooper graduated from Yale University in 1986. He was born on May 25, 1963 in St. Louis, Missouri and raised there, Boston, and San Francisco. His interest in film began in childhood and stemmed from his great-uncle's (Leopold Stokowski) involvement in the movie Fantasia (1940). Hickenlooper's interest also bloomed from his father being a playwright and his mother starting a guerrilla theater troop, which would protest the Vietnam War. Both of his parents told him the techniques of story telling whether to make an aesthetic or political point. Hickenlooper's first short Super 8mm films were animated and made with this grammar school friend Kirk Wise who, years later, would go on to direct La Belle et la Bête (1991) for Walt Disney. While attending a Jesuit high school, Hickenlooper turned to live action short filmmaking. Many of those shorts ("Telefission", "A Day in the Life", "A Black and White Film" and "The Revenant") were premiered on Public Television in St. Louis and Kansas City. Hickenlooper spent one summer studying at the USC School of Cinema and Television, and then went on to Yale for a B.A. in History and Film Studies. After graduating, Hickenlooper interned for producer Roger Corman and, in 1991, authored the book "Reel Conversations" (Citadel Press), a collection of interviews with film directors and critics. Hickenlooper made his professional directing debut with Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper (1988), a short documentary about Dennis Hopper. However, he made his breakthrough when he premiered Aux coeurs des ténèbres - l'apocalypse d'un metteur en scène (1991), the internationally acclaimed documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now (1979), at the Cannes Film Festival.