Michael Mann

Michael Mann

Born: February 5, 1943
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive style of neo-noir crime thriller. His most acclaimed works include the films Thief (1981), Manhunter (1986), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Heat (1995), The Insider (1999), and Collateral (2004). He is also known for his role as executive producer on the popular TV series Miami Vice (1984–89), which he later adapted into a 2006 feature film.

For his work, he has received nominations from international organizations and juries, including the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cannes, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Total Film ranked Mann No. 28 on its list of the 100 Greatest Directors Ever, Sight and Sound ranked him No. 5 on their list of the 10 Best Directors of the Last 25 Years, and Entertainment Weekly ranked Mann No. 8 on their 25 Greatest Active Film Directors list

Movies for Michael Mann...

Title: Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2023
Type: TV
THR’s famed Roundtables are reimagined for broadcast and offer a fresh perspective on a classic, showcasing the collective brilliance of the entertainment industry's finest and funniest minds as never before.
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Bonnie
Title: Bonnie
Character: Self
Released: November 12, 2022
Type: Movie
A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
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Title: Mostra, Venise
Character: Self - "Tapis Rouge" Guest
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: One Perfect Shot
Character: Self
Released: March 24, 2022
Type: TV
This docuseries celebrates some of the most iconic moments in filmmaking with each episode featuring one acclaimed director pulling back the curtain on their most iconic shots. Inspired by the popular Twitter account of the same name.
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We Blew It
Title: We Blew It
Character: Self
Released: November 8, 2017
Type: Movie
How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's and 1970's? What do the people who lived in that golden age think about it today? Did they really blow it? Shot in Cinemascope - from New Jersey to California - this melancholic and elegiac road-movie draws upon the portrait of a confused, complex and incandescent America one year after the start of the electoral campaign. That golden age has become its last romantic border and an inconsolable America is about to pull on a trigger called Trump.
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The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Title: The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Character: Self
Released: March 8, 2016
Type: Movie
Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.
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The Intern
Title: The Intern
Character: Tai Chi Class
Released: September 23, 2015
Type: Movie
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
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Title: The Director's Chair
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 2014
Type: TV
Robert Rodriguez sits down with the industry's most iconic directors and engages in a revealing and unexpected exchange about the world of filmmaking.
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The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Title: The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Character: Self
Released: September 24, 2013
Type: Movie
This feature-length documentary delves into the trilogy, opening with the inspiration and vision for the new Batman films and inching its way toward the Rises finale and the culmination of nearly a decade of creative blood, sweat and tears. Candid, thoughtful and extensive, and comprised of revealing behind-the-scenes footage, countless interviews, audition tapes (with Christian Bale and Cillian Murphy doning the cape and cowl), and a narrative grip and momentum all its own, it leaves no stone unturned.
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Milius
Title: Milius
Character: Self
Released: March 9, 2013
Type: Movie
The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation.
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Making The Last of the Mohicans
Title: Making The Last of the Mohicans
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Interviews with the cast and crew of the 1992 Michael Mann film.
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Michael Mann: Making 'Public Enemies'
Title: Michael Mann: Making 'Public Enemies'
Character: Self
Released: November 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Look behind the scenes at the making of Public Enemies (2009)
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Hancock
Title: Hancock
Character: Executive
Released: July 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?
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The Making of 'Heat'
Title: The Making of 'Heat'
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes documentary on the classic Michael Mann heist film.
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Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation
Title: Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2005
Type: Movie
This short documentary tells about shooting the scene from 'Heat (1995)' where Robert De Niro and Al Pacino meet over a cup of coffee.
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Heat: Return to the Scene of the Crime
Title: Heat: Return to the Scene of the Crime
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Location manager Janice Polley and associate producer Gusmano Cesaretti helm this absorbing featurette in which they discuss the photography and locales Mann utilized in the film. The pair gushes over Mann's talent, but they also touch on plenty of topics that aren't explored elsewhere on the disc.
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Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
Title: Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
Character: Self
Released: December 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt tries to show the background and developments and speaks, among others, with directors such as Richard Fleischer and Robert Wise as well as with "femme fatale" actresses. Filmmakers of the following generations explain how the style and themes of noir continue to shape cinema today.
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City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
Title: City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
Character: Self
Released: December 14, 2004
Type: Movie
This documentary chronicles the making of the film Collateral (2004). We get to see Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx training for their roles, as well as Jada Pinket Smith's Audition. Michael Mann also informs us on his preparation for the film, as well as some more behind-the-scenes looks at the 17 special camera-ready taxis and the taxi crash.
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Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Title: Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary feature that reveals the creative process of Chicago moviemakers. Using the city's famous river as a location, directors are placed in a variety of boats and share stories of how Chicago has influenced their careers.
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Title: Leçon de Cinéma
Character: Self
Released: March 20, 2004
Type: TV
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Inside 'Manhunter'
Title: Inside 'Manhunter'
Character: Himself
Released: February 13, 2001
Type: Movie
A DVD Special Feature documentary on the experience of turning the chilling novel "Red Dragon" into a motion picture, all told through the actors and director of the first interpretation on film of the hideously complex Hannibal Lecter. Features interviews with Director Michael Mann, and actors Brian Cox, William Petersen, Tom Noonan, and Joan Allen.
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Howard Hawks: American Artist
Title: Howard Hawks: American Artist
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A tribute of Howard Hawks by the British Film Institute.
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Title: Cheers
Character: The Guy
Released: September 30, 1982
Type: TV
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Dave
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Title: All in the Family
Character: Dr. Dolby
Released: January 12, 1971
Type: TV
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
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Title: All in the Family
Character: Rev. Harris
Released: January 12, 1971
Type: TV
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Tom
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Tales of Tomorrow
Released: August 3, 1951
Type: TV
Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.