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1998–present. Spouse. Jocelyne Cooper. Children. 3. Relatives. Todd Cooper (brother) Scott Cooper (born April 20, 1970) is an American director, screenwriter, producer and former actor. He is known for writing and directing Crazy Heart (2009), Out of the Furnace (2013), Black Mass (2015), Hostiles (2017), and Antlers (2021).
- Antlers
- Out of The Furnace
- Black Mass
- The Pale Blue Eye
- Hostiles
- Crazy Heart
When it was announced that Cooper’s next movie would be produced by horror aficionado Guillermo del Toro, one could easily assume that Cooper would be taking things in a far creepier direction than he ever had. Antlers very much delivers on that promise, giving us an allegorical tale of demons that will leave you with a sinking feeling in the pit o...
Cooper’s second feature, 2013’s Out of the Furnace, is nothing if not star-studded. Cooper always seems to be a director able to get some A-list actors to join his movies, but this is a truly absurd collective of talent, including Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, Forest Whitaker, and Willem Dafoe. The center of the film ...
Black Mass sees Cooper take on a true story in this biographical crime drama about infamous Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. Bulger here is played by Johnny Depp who, in typical fashion, does his best to disappear into the role — bald cap and thick accent included — in what many praised as being his best performance in years. Based on Dick Lehr and Ge...
This, the newest of Cooper’s films and his first made exclusively for Netflix, once again stars his favorite collaborator, Christian Bale. This time, Bale plays a detective named Augustus Landor, a man brought in to solve a series of murder that occur in 1830 at the The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. To do so, he is forced ...
Cooper is a very interesting director in that he seems to want to try his hand at nearly every classic American film genre. If Antlers was his horror movie and Black Mass his gangster flick, then Hostilesis his Western, and boy is his take bleak and violent. This is a movie that holds nothing back, giving us an unsparing view of life on the edge of...
Again, Cooper tackles a new genre here with 2009’s Crazy Heart. Up until this point in our list, most of Cooper’s movies have been genre movies, or films that tell their respective stories within a familiar structure of crime, horror, or adventure. This marks his most staid subject, a pure drama centered on a musician named Otis “Bad” Blake (played...
Dec 22, 2009 · The critics have been raving nonstop, and rightfully so, over Jeff Bridges’ peerless performance in ‘Crazy Heart’ as Bad Blake, the burned-out country music star who finds himself running on empty,...
Hostiles is a 2017 American western drama film written and directed by Scott Cooper, based on a story by Donald E. Stewart. Hostiles stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Stephen Lang, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, Adam Beach, Q'orianka Kilcher, Jonathan Majors, and Timothée Chalamet appear in supporting roles.
Oct 29, 2021 · Based on a short story called "The Quiet Boy" by Nick Antosca, "Antlers" stars Keri Russell as Julia, a troubled woman who comes back to her Oregon hometown after years away to take a...
Dec 22, 2017 · In his films, Cooper gravitates toward violence: early, often, and severe. His new movie, Hostiles , is about an army captain in the 1890s American West suffering from PTSD on account of all the...
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Oct 28, 2021 · A look at director Scott Cooper's leap into the horror genre, with a little nudge from Guillermo Del Toro.
