American film maker Barry Sonnenfield started his professional life as a cinematographer. He worked as a cinematographer for Coen Brothers. Later on Barry Sonnenfield switched over to film making. He has directed many films of big budgets. Men in Black, a big budget American film was directed and produced by Barry Sonnenfield. He has also directed episodes of The Late Late Show With Crag Ferguson.
New York is the home town of Barry Sonnenfield. He completed his graduation from New York University of Film School. This was in the year 1978. He is knowm for his significant contribution as a cinematographer in the Oscar-nominated film called In Our Water. He worked as a director of photography in this film. He first came in contact with the Coen Brothers in the year 1984. In this year, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen recruited Barry Sonnenfield for their film Blood Simple.This was the beginning of Barry Sonnenfield's relation with Coen Brothers.
After the succes of the Blood Simple, Coen Brothers even hired Barry Sonnenfield for their next two films. These two films are Miller's Crossing and Raising Arizona. Barry Sonnenfield also worked for Danny DeVito for the film Throw Momma from the Train in the year 1987. He has also worked for the film When Harry Met Sally, a film made by Rob Reiner in the year 1989. In the next year, Barry Sonnenfield worked for Rob Reiner's another film called Misery.
Barry Sonnenfield was first assigned the task of a director in the year 1991. In this year he was assigned by Orion Pictures to work as a director and it was then that he directed his first fillm The Addams Family. In fact, his first film was a huge box office success. Addams Family has its sequel Addams Family Values. |
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The next film was released in the year 1993. But this was not so successful as Addams Family. ‘Get Shorty’ the fourth film directed by Barry Sonnerfield brought huge acclamation for him.
Get Shorty is a major success in the professional career of Barry Sonnenfield. This film was produced by Jersey Films and was made on the basis of a novel written by Elmore Leonard. Get Shorty has won a golden Globe Award in the best male performance series.
Barry Sonnenfield has directed films of many notable producers of Hollywood. But his most successful film sequel is Men in Black II
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