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John Curran
John Curran may refer to:
- John Curran (Agatha Christie expert), Irish literary scholar and archivist
- John Curran (baseball) (1852–1896), baseball player, often misidentified as Peter Curren
- John Curran (businessman) (born 1964), American businessman and CEO of ARIN
- John Curran (director) (born 1960), American film director and writer
- John Curran (financial journalist) (1953–2013), American financial journalist
- John Curran (footballer) (1864–?), footballer who played for Liverpool F.C.
- John Curran (Irish politician) (born 1960), Irish Fianna Fáil politician and TD for Dublin Mid West
- John Curran (Illinois politician), member of the Illinois Senate
- John Curran (news correspondent) (1957–2011), American journalist
- John Curran (musician), musician with A Global Threat
- John Elliott Curran (1848–1890), American author
- John Joseph Curran (1842–1909), Canadian politician and lawyer
- John Philpot Curran (1750–1817), Irish lawyer and politician
- Jack Curran (1930–2013), baseball and basketball head coach
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John Curran
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John Curran (born September 11, 1960) is an American film director and screenwriter.
Born in Utica, New York, Curran studied illustration and design at Syracuse University, then worked as an illustrator, graphic designer, and production designer in Manhattan before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1986. There he worked on television commercials before writing and directing the short film Down Rusty Down. For his debut feature film, the 1998 drama Praise, he was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and won the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Director and the International Critics' Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Six years passed before Curran tackled his next project, the independent film We Don't Live Here Anymore, for which he was nominated for the Grand Special Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He followed this two years later with The Painted Veil, the third screen ada
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Unsung Auteurs: John Curran
By Erin Free
Though born in New York in 1960, John Curran made his name in Australia. And while he has a host of fascinating, skillfully made films to his credit, Curran has never really received the substantial credit that he truly deserves, perhaps due to the trickiness in the disparity of his birth country, and the country where he has made so many of his films.
After studying at Syracuse University and working in the US as a graphic designer and production designer, Curran moved to Australia in 1986, where he worked consistently in the commercials business, as well as making a fistful of music videos (for the mighty likes of You Am I and The Cruel Sea) and the short film Down Rusty Down. For his 1998 debut feature film, this American-born director delivered a quintessentially Australian story with the sexually explosive Praise, which was adapted from Andrew McGahan’s acclaimed novel, and tracked the fiery relationship of two young burnouts, Gordon and Cynthia, played with stunning, bravura force by then-newcomers, Sacha Horler and Peter Fento
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