made in atlantis - filmmakers biographies
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FRANK MARSHALL's (Director / Executive Producer) credits as a director include the true life survival drama “Alive,” the thriller “Arachnophobia,” “Congo”, based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel and the Apollo 11 episode of the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries, “From the Earth to the Moon.“
Marshall is also one of Hollywood's most successful producers. While at Amblin,' Entertainment, the company he founded with Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy in 1981, some of the movies Marshall produced were “Poltergeist,” ”Gremlins,” “The Goonies,” “The Color Purple,” “An American Tail,” “Empire of the Sun,” “Hook,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “The Land Before Time,” the “Back to the Future” trilogy and the “Indiana Jones” trilogy.
In 1991 he left Amblin' to pursue his directing career, and together with Kathleen Kennedy formed The Kennedy/Marshall Company. The company has produced a remarkably diverse group of films, including “The Indian in the Cupboard,” directed by Frank Oz; “Snow Falling on Cedars,” directed by Scott Hicks; “A Map of the World,” starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore; M. Night Shyamalan's “The Sixth Sense,” starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment and “Signs,” starring Mel Gibson; “Olympic Glory,” the first official large format film of the Olympic Games; “The Bourne Identity,” starring Matt Damon; “Seabiscuit,” the dramatic true story based on Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling book, directed by Gary Ross; and the box office success, “The Bourne Supremacy,” directed by Paul Greengrass, with Matt Damon returning as Jason Bourne.
Marshall has received four Academy Award® nominations in the Best Picture category for “Raiders of the Lost Ark“ (1982), “The Color Purple” (1985), with co-producers Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones and Kathleen Kennedy, “The Sixth Sense,” (1999) with Kathleen Kennedy and Barry Mendel and “Seabiscuit” (2004), with Kathleen Kennedy and Gary Ross.
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