Todd Field

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Todd Field
Image:25 Feb 2007 Oscars.jpg
Birth name	William Todd Field
Born	February 24 1964 (1964-02-24) (age 45) Image:Flag of the United States.svg Pomona, California, U.S.
Years active	1985 - present
Spouse(s)	Serena Rathbun 3 children

William Todd Field, known professionally as Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American actor and three time Academy Award-nominated writer/director.

1 Biography
2 Filmography (as Actor)
3 Filmography (as Writer/Director/Producer)
4 Academy Awards and other distinctions
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Background

Field was born in Pomona, California, where his family ran a poultry farm. When the boy turned two his family moved to Portland, Oregon, where his father went to work as a salesman, and his mother became the school librarian.^[1] Field began acting after graduating from high school. A budding jazz musician as well, he skipped college in favor of a move east to New York to study acting. Once there, he began performing with the Ark Theatre Company as both an actor and musician.

[edit] Education

Field received his M.F.A from the American Film Institute (AFI).

[edit] Personal Life

He is married to Serena Rathbun, July 25, 1986; they have three children.

[edit] Career

Field began making motion pictures in 1985 when he was cast by Woody Allen in Radio Days. He went on to work with some of America's greatest film makers including Stanley Kubrick, Victor Nuñez, and Carl Franklin. It was Franklin and Nunez (both AFI alumnists) who encouraged Field to enroll as a Directing Fellow at the AFI, which he did in the fall of 1992. Since that time he has received the Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award from the AFI, the Satyajit Ray Award from the British Film Institute, a Jury Prize from the Sundance Film Festival, and his short films have been exhibited at various venues overseas and domestically at the Museum of Modern Art.

Field became one of Hollywood's hottest new writer/directors with the release of In the Bedroom, a film based on a short story by author Andre Dubus. (Both Kubrick and Dubus were among Field's mentors; tragically, both died right before the production of In the Bedroom.) In the Bedroom was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Tom Wilkinson, his first nomination), Best Actress (Sissy Spacek, her sixth nomination), Supporting Actress (Marisa Tomei, her second nomination), and Best Screenplay (Adapted).

Field followed this with Little Children, which was nominated for three Academy Awards including two for his actors: Kate Winslet (her fifth nomination, and with it a record for the youngest actor to be nominated for five Academy Awards) and Jackie Earle Haley (his first nomination, and first leading role in over fifteen years). After having written, directed and produced just two feature films, Field had garnered five Academy Award nominations for his actors, and three for himself, personally.