Whit Stillman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Whit Stillman
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Jan 25, 1952(1952-01-25)
Age	72
Birthplace	Washington, D.C.
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Whit Stillman Biography

Whit Stillman is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on January 25, 1952 in Washington, D.C., United States. Director of the film Metropolitan that led to him receiving his Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

The film he directed with his acclaim Metropolitan was a hit with His acclaimed film Metropolitan featured Chris Eigeman in the role of Nick. as Nick.

Stillman was born in 1952 in Washington, D.C., to Margaret Drinker (née Riley), from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a Democratic politician, John Sterling Stillman, an assistant secretary of commerce under President John F. Kennedy (a classmate of Stillman’s father at Harvard), from Washington, D.C. His great-grandfather was businessman James Stillman; his great-great- grandfather, Charles Stillman, founded Brownsville, Texas. Stillman grew up in Cornwall, New York, and experienced depression during puberty. “I was very depressed when I was 11 or 12,” he told The Wall Street Journal. “I was sent to the leading Freudian child psychologist in Washington, D.C. It was heck. The last thing I needed to talk about was guilt about sex.” However, when his parents separated, he found that his depression ceased: “I actually felt healthier.”

John Whitney Stillman (born January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director known for his 1990 film Metropolitan, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He is also known for his other films, Barcelona (1994), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Damsels in Distress (2011), as well as his most recent film, Love & Friendship, which was released in 2016.

He was the son of John Sterling Stillman was an assistant secretary of commerce under the presidency of John F. Kennedy.

Whit Stillman Net Worth

Whit Stillman is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Whit Stillman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He worked as an editorial assistant for Doubleday within New York City and junior editor at The American Spectator.

He wrote a book inspired by his own film The Last Days of Disco.

The Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University held a 25-year retrospective of the career and films of Stillman including his film titled Love & Friendship. At the time of the retrospective, Stillman was asked: “Your films all have a sort of costume drama sensibility, but without the costumes, and now you’ve made a costume drama, period dress and all.” Stillman responded by stating that: “Love & Friendship doesn’t loom as a costume drama, because it’s a pretty funny comedy, so it’s really not what you might anticipate. It’s not Downton Abbey in any way, shape or form. There are a lot of very good English comic actors who have done the supporting parts and really shine. I love Jane Austen. I sort of wanted something of my own to work on between paid script writing assignments. It’s good that I had so much time with no producer or studio executive wanting delivery quickly because it’s an incredibly funny novella she wrote, but hard to read and hard to dramatize. It’s an epistolary form from the 18th century and there are all these very funny ideas and lines buried within. It’s kind of an inaccessible format and it was a long process of adaptation.”

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The film premiered and was screened as part of the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Metropolitan was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize (Drama) at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival. Stillman won Best First Feature at the 6th Independent Spirit Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1991 for Best Original Screenplay. He won the 1990 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best New Director. The movie was a financial success, grossing about $3 million on a budget of $225,000. In an interview Stillman said of the film, “The material seemed pretty rich, almost rank. And perhaps it’s better approaching a subject people feel strongly about, even if that strong feeling is hatred, than something colorless and unspecific. Also, I love anachronism and this was the chance to film, essentially, a costume picture set in the present day or recent past. But a large part of the idea was to disguise our pitifully low budget by filming the most elegant subject available.”

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Whit Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Whit Stillman celebrates birthday on January 25 of every year.

Stillman stated in 2006 that he was working on several unfinished scripts. He had been slated to direct a film adaptation of Christopher Buckley’s novel Little Green Men, but in a 2009 interview, Stillman said the adaptation is “[not] happening, at least with me.” He was writing another film, Dancing Mood, set in Jamaica in the 1960s which did not go into production and filming.