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Whiplash is a 2014 American psychological drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, starring Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, and Melissa Benoist.It focuses on an ambitious music student and aspiring jazz drummer (Teller), who is pushed to his limit by his abusive instructor (Simmons) at the fictional Shaffer Conservatory in New York City.
Damien Sayre Chazelle (/ ʃ ə ˈ z ɛ l /; born January 19, 1985) [2] is a French-American filmmaker. [3] He directed the psychological drama Whiplash (2014), the musical romance La La Land (2016), the biographical drama First Man (2018), and the period black comedy Babylon (2022). For Whiplash, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best ...
Whiplash is a 2013 American drama short film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It depicts the relationship between an impassioned and gifted jazz drummer (Johnny Simmons) and an abusive bandleader (J. K. Simmons; no relation to Johnny). It is the short film on which the feature film is based.
J.K. Simmons revealed in an oral history of “Whiplash” to mark the film’s 10th anniversary that he assumed the film’s director, Damien Chazelle, was a Black man after he first read the ...
Whiplash is a 2014 American drama film directed by Damien Chazelle. The screenplay, also written by Chazelle, was partly based on his experiences in the Princeton High School Studio Band. [ 1 ] The film stars Miles Teller as an ambitious jazz drummer selected to join a school studio band taught by a cruel music instructor played by J. K ...
Justin Hurwitz will wield the baton for two upcoming 'Whiplash in Concert' shows that will require ... “They’ve studied it,” says Hurwitz of the 2014 Damien Chazelle film he scored and that ...
A college drummer (Miles Teller, left) is tormented by his band teacher (J.K. Simmons) in the drama "Whiplash." Music is turned into a beautifully brutal art form in director Damien Chazelle's pre ...
Simmons is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a British Academy Film Award for his supporting role in Damien Chazelle's independent film Whiplash (2014). Simmons is known for his role as J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007).