Michael Hoffman (American director)

For other people named Michael Hoffman, see Michael Hoffman (disambiguation).

For the German film director, see Michael Hofmann (director).

Michael Hoffman
Born	November 30, 1956 Hawaii

Michael Lynn Hoffman (born November 30, 1956) is an American movie director.

Life and career

Hoffman was born in Hawaii and grew up in Payette, Idaho, played basketball, and attended college at Boise State University. There he was elected as student body president of BSU. He was a cofounder of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival (along with Doug Copsey and Victoria Holloway) which is celebrating its 30 year anniversary this year. While at BSU, he served as president of the student body and earned the high honor of Rhodes Scholar, the first BSU alumnus to achieve this honor. While studying at Oriel College, Oxford, he extended his interest in drama by founding the Oxford University Film Foundation, (OUFF), and by making a student film Privileged, which starred a young Hugh Grant.

Befriended by John Schlesinger, who provided the funding, Michael's next film was Restless Natives, a humorous look at young Scottish boys who hold up tour buses. His other credits include Some Girls, a film starring the young Patrick Dempsey (Derek Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy), Restoration with Robert Downey, Jr., One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney, Soapdish with Sally Field and Kevin Kline, A Midsummer Night's Dream, for which he also wrote the screenplay based on the work by Shakespeare, and The Emperor's Club (starring Kevin Kline). He has made three films with Kline (so far), including the aforementioned A Midsummer Night's Dream.

His film Promised Land (1987) was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

He directed The Last Station, based on the final years of Leo Tolstoy's life. It starred Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, and Paul Giamatti.^[1]

He is father to Atticus, Phoebe & Olivia Hoffman.

Director Credits

• Privileged (1982) - Also Writer
• Restless Natives (1985)
• Promised Land (1987) - Also Writer
• Some Girls (1988)
• Soapdish (1991)
• Restoration (1995)
• One Fine Day (1996)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) - Also Writer/Producer
• The Emperor's Club (2002)
• Game 6 (2005)
• The Last Station (2009) - Also Producer
• Gambit (2011) ^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0824758/
2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404978/fullcredits

External links

• Michael Hoffman at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Hoffman, Michael
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Date of birth	November 30, 1956
Place of birth	Hawaii
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