Paul Schrader

Writing Jul 22, 1946 (80 years old) Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Paul Joseph Schrader (/ˈʃreɪdər/; born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became known for writing the screenplay of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). He later continued his collaboration with Scorsese, writing or co-writing Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Schrader has also worked extensively as a director: his 23 films include Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017), with the last of these earning him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts "man in a room" stories which feature isolated, troubled men confronting an existential crisis.

Raised in a strict Calvinist family, Schrader attended Calvin College before pursuing film studies at UCLA on the encouragement of film critic Pauline Kael. He then worked as a film scholar and critic, publishing the book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972) before transitioning to screenwriting in 1974. The success of Taxi Driver in 1976 brought greater attention to his work, and Schrader began directing his own films, beginning with Blue Collar (co-written with his brother, Leonard Schrader). Schrader has described three of his recent films as a loose trilogy: First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021), and Master Gardener (2022).

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48 Acting Credits

47 Crew Credits

Paul Schrader

Acting

Dog Eat Dog

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Milius

A Decade Under the Influence

Tales from the Script

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

Making 'Taxi Driver'

Mr. Scorsese

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

The Last Movie Stars

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

The Rules of Film Noir

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

The Road to Bresson

We Blew It

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Murnau, Borzage and Fox

Crew

Taxi Driver

Raging Bull

First Reformed

Bringing Out the Dead

The Last Temptation of Christ

The Card Counter

American Gigolo

Cat People

The Mosquito Coast

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist

Dog Eat Dog

Dying of the Light