Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

Born: July 16, 1956
in New York City, New York, USA
Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage he's most known for his seminal work Angels in America which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.

Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie.

In 2003 he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical Caroline, or Change which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The 2021 Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change earned Kushner a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, making Kushner among the few playwrights in history nominated for all four major American entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.

He has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), West Side Story (2021), and The Fabelmans (2022), the former two earning him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Movies for Tony Kushner...

The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
Title: The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 2023
Type: Movie
A fascinating behind-the-scenes special about Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans."
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The Stories of West Side Story
Title: The Stories of West Side Story
Character: Self
Released: March 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Rejoice in the astonishing all-new footage of Spielberg at work in documentary filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau’s revealing The Stories of West Side Story. Composed of Opening, Prologue, Sharks & Jets, Dance at the Gym, The Romance, America, Gee, Officer Krupke, Cool, From Quintet to the Rumble, I Feel Pretty, Somewhere, Finale, and Tribute.
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Something's Coming: West Side Story
Title: Something's Coming: West Side Story
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Incredible video behind-the-scenes with the stars, Steven Spielberg, and see one of the last interviews with the legendary Stephen Sondheim.
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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Title: Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Character: Self
Released: September 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s top counsel during investigations into Communist activities in the 1950s, Cohn is also known for being Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, fixer and mentor.
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Arthur Miller: Writer
Title: Arthur Miller: Writer
Character: Self
Released: December 8, 2017
Type: Movie
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which continue to move audiences around the world today. He also made headlines for being targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee at the height of the McCarthy Era and entering into a tumultuous marriage with Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. Told from the unique perspective of his daughter, filmmaker Rebecca Miller, Arthur Miller: Writer is an illuminating portrait that combines interviews spanning decades and a wealth of personal archival material, and provides new insights into Miller’s life as an artist and exploring his character in all its complexity.
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Spielberg
Title: Spielberg
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 2017
Type: Movie
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
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Mike Nichols: An American Master
Title: Mike Nichols: An American Master
Character: Self
Released: January 29, 2016
Type: Movie
With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.
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The Royal Road
Title: The Royal Road
Character: (archive sound)
Released: March 22, 2015
Type: Movie
A fascinating and unlikely reinvention story, The Royal Road simultaneously explores cinematic spiritual channeling, the conquest and colonization of Mexico and the American Southwest, fading historical Californian urban landscapes, and the passions found in butch identity to achieve an achingly beautiful and poetic defense of remembering. Probing roads from El Camino Real, to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, to the road right outside the front door, Olson crafts a deeply intelligent and transcending observation of the human condition that reaches for redemption in the embrace of history, nostalgia, mindfulness, and sheer beauty. If you give yourself over to it, it will crack you wide open.
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Lincoln: An American Journey
Title: Lincoln: An American Journey
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Documentary on the making of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (2012).
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Title: Finding Your Roots
Character: Self
Released: March 24, 2012
Type: TV
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
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Outrage
Title: Outrage
Character: Self
Released: April 24, 2009
Type: Movie
An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the US.
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Theater of War
Title: Theater of War
Character: Self
Released: April 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at The Public Theater's production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage" that examines the playwright's life and ideas.
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Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Title: Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Character: Self
Released: March 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art.
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Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Title: Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Character: Self
Released: January 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.
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Live to Tell: The First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America
Title: Live to Tell: The First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America
Character: Self - Playwright, "Angels in America"
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Documentary about the first gay prom in America, that took place in West Hollywood, promoted by students of the EAGLES center, an alternative high school.
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In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
Title: In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
Released: June 11, 1993
Type: Movie
Backstage documentary chronicling the Original Broadway Production of “Angels in America.”
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Title: POV
Character: Self
Released: July 5, 1988
Type: TV
POV is a Public Broadcasting Service public television series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is an initialism for point of view. POV is the longest-running showcase on television for independent documentary films. PBS presents 14-16 POV programs each year, and the series has premiered over 300 films to U.S. television audiences since 1988. POV's films have a strong first-person, social-issue focus. Many established directors, including Michael Moore, Jonathan Demme, Terry Zwigoff, Errol Morris, Albert and David Maysles, Michael Apted, Frederick Wiseman, Marlon Riggs, and Ross McElwee have had work screened as part of the POV series. The series has garnered both critical and industry acclaim over its 20-plus years on television. POV programs have also won major industry awards including three Oscars, 32 Emmys, 36 Cine Golden Eagles, 15 Peabody Awards, 11 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, the Prix Italia and the Webby Award.