Marc Forster

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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:It often seems that people find their true callings in the most unexpected manner, and for a young boy growing up in a remote town in Switzerland who didn't see a movie until he was 12 years old, the prospect of growing up to become a movie director may have seemed as unlikely as they come. Upon viewing director Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed 1979 war drama Apocalypse Now, however, young Marc Forster had an epiphany that would eventually lead him to Hollywood and beyond. Though the German-born youngster's bucolic childhood was virtually celluloid-free, the sheer awe of Coppola's striking vision eventually led the ambitious and imaginative Forster to dive headlong into a career that might otherwise have never occurred to him even in his wildest dreams. In 1990, Forster left his home in Switzerland to enter New York University's acclaimed film program, with the young director's freshman feature hitting... Full Biography
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Ewan McGregor attends the movie premiere of "Stay" directed by Marc Forster during the 56th...
Will Ferrell and director Marc Forster on the set of "Stranger Than Fiction"
Director Marc Forster and Dustin Hoffman on the set of "Stranger Than Fiction"
Director Marc Forster on the set of "The Kite Runner" (Paramount Vantage Films)
Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, left, and Zekiria Ebrahimi with director Marc Forster on the set of The Kite...
Director Marc Forster, left, Mathieu Amalric, Olga Kurylenko and Daniel Craig on the set of "Quantum...
Marc Forster, Best Motion Picture Director nominee for "Finding Neverland"
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