Scott Cooper Biography
Scott Cooper was born on April 20th, 1970.he is an American director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is known for writing and directing Crazy Heart 2009, Out of the Furnace 2013, Black Mass 2015 and Hostiles 2017.
10 Quick Facts About Scott Cooper
- Name: Scott Cooper
- Age: 53 years old as of 2022.
- Birthday: April 20th, 1970
- Zodiac Sign: Taurus
- Height: Average
- Nationality: American
- Occupation: Director, Actor, Producer and Screenwriter
- Marital Status: Married
- Salary: Under review
- Net worth: Under review
Scott Cooper Age
Scott was born on April 20th,1970. He is 53 years old as of 2022.
Scott Cooper Wife
Cooper lives in Los Angeles with his wife. His wife’s name is Jocelyne Cooper, they have their two daughters, Ava and Stella.
Scott Cooper Career
Cooper spent a decade working as an actor in film and television.cooper made the switch directing with 2009 crazy hearts, starring was Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The film that was released by Fox search list pictures, received widespread critical acclaim and a number of awards, including Academy Awards for best actor and best original songs.
Among Crazy Heart’s fans were director Ridley Scott and producer Michael Costigan, as well as executives at Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, Appian Way. Cooper got an opportunity to develop the Low Dweller, a spec script written by Brad Ingelsby that had DiCaprio and Scott attached, as actor and director respectively.
Cooper rewrote the script, drawing on his experience of growing up in Appalachia and losing a sibling at a young age Relativity Media put the film, now titled Out of the Furnace, into production in the year 2012, with Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson and Casey Affleck leading the ensemble cast.
Cooper directed the film and shared writing credit with Ingelsby, DiCaprio, and Scott remained as producers. In January 2014, Cooper became attached to rewrite in January 2014 and direct Black Mass, a crime drama based the book of the same name by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, described as the “true story of Billy Bulger, Whitey Bulger, FBI agent John Connolly and the FBI’s witness protection program that was created by J. Edgar Hoover.”
Barry Levinson had previously been involved with the project. Johnny Depp, who had been on and off the project for a couple of years, came back on board to play the infamous Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger, alongside Joel Edgerton as Connolly and Benedict Cumberbatch as Billy Bulger. The film was released in the year 2015.
Cooper wrote, directed and produced the 2017 western Hostiles, based on a decades-old manuscript by the late screenwriter Donald E. Stewart. The film reteamed Cooper with his Out of the Furnace star, Bale, alongside Rosamund Pike. It had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, with US distribution rights picked up by Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures
Scott Cooper Movies|Films
In 2009, he was the producer, writer, and director of the movie Crazy Heart. He was also the writer and the producer of the movie For Sale by Owner which was released in 2009. In 2013, he was the director and the writer for the film Out of the Furnace. In 2015, he was the director and producer for the film Black Mass. In 2017, he was the writer, producer, and director for the film Hostiles. In 2020, he expected to release his latest movie titled Antlers which he is featured as the writer and director of the film.
Despite him being an author, producer, and director, Cooper is also an actor and has been featured in several films like:
- 1998 Dry Martini
- 1999 Perfect Fit
- 1999 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
- 1999 The X-Files
- 2000 Takedown
- 2001 Bill’s Gun Shop
- 2001 Rain
- 2001 The District
- 2003 Gods and Generals
- 2003 Save It for Later
- 2003 Attitude
- 2006 Broken Trail
- 2009 For Sale by Owner
- 2009 Get Low
Scott Cooper Hostiles
Hostiles is a 2017 American Western film written and directed by Scott Cooper, based on a story by Donald E. Stewart. The film stars are Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Stephen Lang, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, Adam Beach, Q’orianka Kilcher, Timothée Chalamet and Scott Wilson were in his final film role. It follows a U.S. Army cavalry officer who must escort a Cheyenne war chief and his family back to their home in Montana in the year 1892.
The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2nd, 2017, and had a limited release in the United States by Entertainment Studios starting December 22, 2017, before going wide on January 26, 2018. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $35 million worldwide.
Scott Cooper Net Worth
His net worth is currently under review. this information will be updated soon.
Scott Cooper Antlers
Antlers is an upcoming supernatural horror film directed by Scott Cooper and it’s produced by Guillermo del Toro.
Scott Cooper Awards and Nominations
- Nominated for Most Promising Director for Crazy Heart at CFCA Award 2009
- Nominated for Best Screenplay for Crazy Heart at 2010 Independent Spirit Awards
- Nominated for Best Screenplay for Crazy Heart at 2010 Writers Guild of America Awards
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Director Scott Cooper on Hostiles and Making Movies About People Living on the Margins.
Source; .tracking-board.com
The morning after the premiere of his latest film, Scott Cooper sat beneath an array of golden spheres in the lobby restaurant of the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. A server hovered. “Do you have pressed juices?” Cooper asked. He had on a white t-shirt and a denim jacket; his hair traced a vertical curve. In his films, Cooper gravitates toward violence: early, often, and severe. His new movie, Hostiles, is about an army captain in the 1890s American West suffering from PTSD on account of all the killing he’s done. But in person, Cooper has the gentle, intense friendliness of an evangelist: more priest than the soldier.
The server returned with the juice menu. “How’s Sunset Boulevard?” Cooper asked. “Probably pretty good, huh? And is the Green Goddess, is that—“
“That one’s a little rough,” the server said. “There’s so much green stuff in it. The Sunset is a little smoother. So it depends on what you’re looking for.”
“I think I’ll have a Sunset,” he said.
Cooper is from Abingdon, Virginia—southern, artsy—and still retains the town’s courtly, speak-in-complete-sentences-and-remember-your-name manners. But he left a long time ago: first for New York, and then Los Angeles. “I was afflicted with a certain wanderlust. You know, wanting to travel and this kind of idealism of a vagabond lifestyle. Which I never really did lead. But it sounds great when you read Sam Shepard. One of my former pals and mentors.”
Cooper tugged on his denim jacket. “Sam gave me this coat,” he said.
“I had commented to him on many occasions how much I liked it on the set”— Shepard had a supporting role in Cooper’s second film, Out of the Furnace—“because I did! Sam was probably the most effortlessly cool person I’ve ever been around. And his work spoke to me on a very deep level. For someone who saw their parents bury a child, his work speaks to me. Loss of a sibling. Which has been a theme of a couple of pieces? Certainly Out of the Furnace.” Cooper lost his sister when he was young: “Meningitis, never to recover. I was four. She was seven. And those things stay with you.”
The conversation turned, as it does inevitably in Los Angeles, to where we’d come from. New York, in my case.
“Where in New York?” Cooper asked.
I told him I had lived in Fort Greene.
“But of course. Zach! But I love Brooklyn.”
“Why do you say ‘Of course’?”
“Because that’s where everybody lives now. Let’s be honest—Manhattan is a gated island for the wealthy.” Though, Cooper admitted, he maintains an apartment there, downtown, and edited Hostiles in the city. “There’s a tax incentive,” he said, with a slight grin. “Independently financed westerns.”
Hostiles, like Cooper’s previous three films, was shot on location. His debut, 2009’s Crazy Heart, which won Jeff Bridges an Academy Award, was filmed around the dusty bowling alleys and colorless hotel rooms of the American Southwest—and is still somehow the cheeriest milieu Cooper has ever filmed. Out of the Furnace, about the dismal prospects of a man working in a Pennsylvania steel mill in a small town, is as rusty and barbed as the moldering factories the characters can’t quite escape. Black Mass, about the Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, turns that city’s south side into a washed-out hellscape. For Hostiles, Cooper took to the highlands of New Mexico. “By far the most difficult shoot I’ve ever done,” he said. “January to October. Very high elevations at times. Shot through monsoon season: rain, lightning every day. Rattlesnakes. Dark psychological material.”
Christian Bale, Director Scott Cooper May Reteam for Secret Project ‘Valhalla’
If you want to be an entertainment reporter, here’s some free advice: Always scroll to the bottom of any Deadline story written by the site’s co-editor-in-chief Mike Fleming Jr., because he often includes little nuggets of information that are too early to merit their own headline. Sure enough, Mike ‘pulled a Fleming’ this morning in a story about new hires and promotions at power producer John Lesher‘s production company, Le Grisbi, which was very clearly involved in the release.
Now, if you read all the way to the bottom, Deadline says that Lesher is planning a new project with Hostiles star Christian Bale and that film’s writer-director Scott Cooper. The project is evidently called Valhalla, and while plot details are a mystery, it’s apparently “percolating” at Netflix. This is something I’d been chasing since mid-May — I’d also heard Joel Edgerton may co-star — though representatives for all involved denied it was happening. And that may very well be true! Collider isn’t saying this is “real” yet. Perhaps Deadline is trading in some old information. Or, perhaps not. Perhaps something changed in the last five weeks. I mean, if I were an executive at Netflix, which I probably should be, I know I’d be jumping at the chance to work with an A-lister like Bale, especially when he’s joined by a solid filmmaker like Cooper.
Speaking of whom, Deadline also reports that Cooper and Lesher are developing a film titled Over Tumbled Graves over at Cross Creek. I think it’s safe to assume, given the unique title, that OTG is an adaptation of Jess Walter‘s acclaimed thriller of the same name, which follows a female detective as she searches for a serial killer in Spokane, Washington. First of all, this sounds awesome, and I’ve already added the book to my Amazon shopping cart. Next, I love the idea of Cooper tackling a female-driven serial killer thriller. I know his next film, Antlers, boasts a female protagonist in the form of Keri Russell, but for the most part, Cooper has made thoughtful macho movies about men, from Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace to the more violent Black Mass and Hostiles. I’m hoping this one comes together soon, but I completely understand if Cooper wants to move fast on Valhalla while Bale has an opening in his schedule.
There were even more nuggets in the Deadline piece, such as the fact that Ana Lily Amirpour‘s next movie looks to have been retitled Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, and that Oscar winner Ezra Edelman, whose O.J. Simpson documentary Made in America is one of the best films of the decade, will make his narrative directing debut with a movie called V.I.N., which is also in the works at Netflix. The streaming company has its fingers in many pies, but here’s hoping both V.I.N. and Valhalla are high on its list of priority projects. Stay tuned for more as these little nuggets of information blossom into full-blown stories…
Source: Collider