There may not be an obvious connection between Damien Chazelle’s horror script “The Last Exorcism Part 2” and “Whiplash,” but the adapted screenplay nominee drew heavily on his training as a ...

It has been just about a full year since “Whiplash” debuted—or, rather, exploded—out of the Sundance Film Festival, where it seized both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. Now a PGA and WGA ...

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 script about ...

J.K. Simmons won an Oscar for his electrifying performance in one of the 2010s' best thrillers, and the movie still holds up over a decade later.

Damien Chazelle has two Oscar-winning films to his name, but the filmmaker says that “La La Land’ and “Whiplash” wouldn’t have become as critically acclaimed as they were without the help of ...

Nearly 11 months after he picked up the Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 12 Years A Slave, John Ridley and his script won the Humanitas Prize for Feature Film today. Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash script, ...

And now, a year after that memorable moment, Whiplash is up for five Academy Awards (Best Picture, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Writing/Adapted Screenplay, and Supporting Actor). At the Critics' Choice ...

In order to nail down financing for his Black Listed script, writer/director Damien Chazelle directed this 18-minute short film version of “Whiplash” for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. And the rest ...

There may not be an obvious connection between Damien Chazelle’s horror script “The Last Exorcism Part 2” and “Whiplash,” but the adapted screenplay nominee drew heavily on his training as a ...