The Big Picture: Baz Luhrmann Career & Biographical Notes: Directed Nicole Kidman in the most expensive advertizement ever, for Chanel No 5 Cites Apocalypse Now as one of his favourite films. Dropped plans to make a movie about Alexander the Great, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. Recorded the single, Everybody's Free [To Wear Sunscreen], which reached No.1 in the UK Occasionally worries that his name sounds too much like a dinner recipe

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Baz Luhrmann Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• Moulin Rouge!
• Moulin Rouge!

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Australia	11/26/08				42.22	Info

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Awards:

2008
Australia

• Runner-up: Best Original Screenplay, Golden Satellites

2001
Moulin Rouge!

• Win: Best Director, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Online Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Directors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Screenplay, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Writers' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Director, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Chicago Film Critics

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