Was a student of the famous Institut Montana Zugerberg in Switzerland, then an all-boys school.
Mark Foster is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. He is the frontman of the band Foster the People. Foster was born in California and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His father is a musician and his mother is a teacher. He has two sisters. Foster began playing music at an early age and was a member of several bands in high school.
He attended the University of Southern California on a music scholarship. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles and began working as a producer for various artists. He also started his own record label. In 2009, he released his debut album, Torches. The album was a commercial success and spawned the hit single “Pumped Up Kicks”.
The song was nominated for a Grammy Award. In 2012, Foster released his second album, Supermodel. The album was also a commercial success and received positive reviews from critics. In 2014, Foster won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for his work on the song “Say Something”. ..
General Info
Full Name
Mark Foster
Date Of Birth
May 12, 1970, November 30, 1969
Height
1.98 m
Weight
90 kg
Profession
Screenwriter, Film producer, Film director
Education
Alleyn Court Prep School, University of Bath, New York University
Nationality
British
Family
Parents
Ulli Forster, Wolf Forster
Siblings
Peter Forster, Wolfgang Forster
Accomplishments
Awards
National Board of Review Award for Best Film, Independent Spirit Someone to Watch Award
Music Groups
Foster The People
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director, Rob...
Movies
All I See Is You, World War Z, Machine Gun Preacher, Quantum of Solace, The Kite Runner, Stranger than Fiction, Stay, Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball, Everything Put Together, The Chancellor Manuscript, LX Forty, Loungers, All I See Is You, World War Z, Machine Gun Preacher, Quantum of Solace, The...
I feel really good about Quantum of Solace (2008). The issue which we always had at the time, and still bugs me, [was] we never had a completed script. It was the writers' strike and so... we could've gotten longer, deeper but at the same time I'm really pleased with the movie. (...) But at the time, the main thing for me - what I was missing - or wished that we'd had... six months without the writers' strike, to develop the script properly, get certain sub-plots a little deeper and stronger. (...) I haven't seen the movie since, so I have to see how it's aged. It would be interesting to re-watch it. [2015]
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I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well. So many things have to come together. It's always a new adventure and a new undertaking - a beautiful tool - because storytelling is one of the ancient ways human beings communicate.
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That's why I jump from genre to genre, because I always feel I'm doing something new and fresh. I can always fail, but I don't try to repeat myself. I felt, with Bond, doing something so completely different after The Kite Runner (2007) would be refreshing and challenging. That's how I try not to fall into parody myself.
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Cities like Atlanta are very advanced, but once you get outside the city, it feels like 100 years ago. Our producer is black, and we were standing in this room and somebody actually said, in front of him, "Can you tell the colored man to wait outside?" It's shocking.
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What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.
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[on Finding Neverland (2004)] It's not the exact accurate story, but for me the film really isn't about reality. It's about the transformation of imagination, about creativity, about belief. That basically, if you believe, you can make anything happen.
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When you grow up like that, and suddenly you decide you intend to make movies, everybody says, 'It's impossible.' And I'm here and I'm living my dream.
Declined a $500,000 offer to direct a film despite having no income at the time and living from money he borrowed from friends. He didn't believe the script was good and was afraid his reputation as a director would suffer.
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Invited to join AMPAS in 2005.
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Was a student of the famous Institut Montana Zugerberg in Switzerland, then an all-boys school.
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Moved to Davos, Switzerland with his German parents, when he was a small child.
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Is the youngest of three brothers. His oldest brother Wolfgang committed suicide in 1998. His brother Peter is a lawyer.
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After his studies in New York, he moved to Los Angeles.
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Attended New York University's film school from 1990 to 1993.
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Born to Dr. Wolf Forster, a German doctor, and his wife Ulli Forster. He was born in Germany, but grew up in Davos Switzerland.
