Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She had been the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before leaving in March 2011, after four months of previews (the longest preview period for any show in Broadway history), following artistic differences with the producers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Taymor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2019 · On Broadway as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché as Self
- 2017 · Julie Taymor: Shakespeares Kino as Herself
- 2014 · Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Stage and Film Director
- 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
- 2011 · Pride of The Lion King as Herself
- 2011 · Kurosawa's Way as Self
- 2010 · Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino as Herself
- 2010 · Dante Ferretti: Production Designer as Self
- 2008 · Creating the Universe as
- 2007 · Lights, Action, Music as Self
- 2006 · Hollywoods Oper - Eine Oper für Los Angeles as Self
- 2005 · The Colbert Report as
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- 1992 · Behind the Scenes as