Oscar Sharp To Direct Ben Mezrich Mammoth Thriller ‘Woolly”
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Profile Article, Culture
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Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2015
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"Tobey Maguire’s Material Signs Oscar Sharp To Blind Deal"
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Interview by Sarah Salovaara
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People
“Oscar Sharp stands out because there is an original comedic voice at work in his films. His humour is surreal and anarchic, in the best British tradition.”
- Sir Alan Parker - Midnight Express, Evita "One of the best short films I've seen." - Ava DuVernay - Selma "I fucking loved that one." - Joss Whedon (re The Stabbington Application) "The short packs in an amazing amount. You get a little slice of life, a well-developed main character and really touching moments. It is also stunningly edited.” - Mike Newell - Harry Potter, Four Weddings “The direction is amazing...quite beautiful...thanks for pushing the medium forward! In a crazy, beautiful way!” - David Chen - Slash Film “His work has universal appeal because it explores questions that have crossed everybody's minds.” - James King - BBC Radio 1 "The Kármán Line was exceptional. Most of all Olivia Colman's performance ... I have rarely seen her better." - Christopher Priest - Author: The Prestige "Great stuff." - John Hurt - Alien, The Elephant Man “I really like your work.” - Todd Solondz - Happiness, Palindromes "Incredibly Moving." - Paul Haggis - Crash, Million Dollar Baby "This is a film that people really do need to see." - Zoë Ball - BBC Radio 1 “Combines lots of clever techniques to give us a real sense of what the character wants.” - Chris Collins - British Film Institute |
Publications
"Sharp is a huge talent, masterly with tone and style."
- The New Yorker - Sarah Larson "Sharp has established himself as a master of creating extraordinary scenarios, yet at the same time making them feel realistic and human" - Short Of The Week “The search for Britain’s next great film director is over.” - Sunday Telegraph "Oscar Sharp’s The Kármán Line is a fascinatingly surreal and moving fantasy-parable." - The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw "Oscar Sharp's The Kármán Line naturally levitates above the pack, a brilliantly executed tragicomedy which simply plays out variations on a single, ingenious idea." - Little White Lies "A quietly devastating film that may be one of the best works of art you’ll see on the big screen this year." - Londonist "Oscar Sharp is a maverick." - Flavorpill “Amazing. It was like watching someone’s dream.” - The Observer - Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice "Pairing deadpan tonality with the outlandish imagination of a Roald Dahl story, it’s not often that a movie so bizarre in conception succeeds so well in execution, and Sharp might very well be set to follow his protagonist’s skyward trajectory." - Filmcomment.com "Suggests the future of the British film Industry may be in safe hands" - The List "This movie says in 5 mins what most hollywood movies can't say in 90 mins." - Most 'liked' YouTube comment |
BAFTA Red Carpet interview
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