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Rob Marshall
Marshall in April 2011
Born	(1960-10-17) October 17, 1960 (age 52) Madison, Wisconsin
Partner(s)	John DeLuca

Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture winner Chicago.

1 Life and career
2 List of Tony nominations
3 Filmography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Life and career

Marshall was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His sister is choreographer and director, Kathleen Marshall.^[1] He graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1978 and was inducted into their alumni hall of fame in 2012.^[2] He attended Carnegie Mellon University and worked in the Pittsburgh theatre scene, performing with such companies as Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.^[3] He debuted in the film industry with the Emmy Award-winning TV adaptation of the musical Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. After that he went on to direct the much anticipated adaptation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago in 2002 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the best-selling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe. The film went on to win three Academy Awards and gross $162,242,962 at the worldwide box office.^[4] In 2009, Marshall directed Nine, an adaptation of the hit Broadway production with the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Marshall then went on to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth chapter of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean film series starring Johnny Depp, Ian McShane, Penélope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush,^[5] which opened on May 20, 2011.^[6] Disney has announced that Marshall is set to direct a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.^[7]

Marshall lives in New York City with his life partner John DeLuca.^[8]

[edit] List of Tony nominations

Year	Show	Category
1993	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Best Choreography
1994	Damn Yankees	Best Choreography
1994	She Loves Me	Best Choreography
1998	Cabaret	Best Choreography
1998	Cabaret	Best Direction of a Musical

[edit] Filmography

Year	Film	Academy Award Wins	Academy Award Nominations	Notes
1995	Victor/Victoria	-	-	television film, choreographer. Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography
1996	Mrs. Santa Claus	-	-	television film, choreographer. Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography
1997	Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella	-	-	television film, musical stager and choreographer. Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography
1999	Annie	-	-	television film, director and choreographer. Winner of Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography, nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special
2001	The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts	-	-	television event, director. Winner of Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety
2002	Chicago	6	13	director and choreographer. Nominated for Academy Award for Best Director. Winner of Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
2005	Memoirs of a Geisha	3	6	director. Nominated for Satellite Award for Best Director
2006	Tony Bennett: An American Classic	-	-	television film, director/executive producer/co-choreographer. Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special, Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program and Outstanding Choreography
2009	Nine	-	4	director/producer/co-choreographer. Nominated for Satellite Award for Best Director
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	-	-	director

[edit] References

^ Rawson, Christopher (August 22, 2007). "Two Marshalls win Governor's Awards for the Arts". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
^ "Allderdice to induct 6 to Alumni Hall of Fame". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. October 31, 2011. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
^ Conner, Lynne (2007). Pittsburgh In Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 204. ISBN 978-0-8229-4330-3. Retrieved 2011-06-06
^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=memoirsofageisha.htm
^ Michael Fleming (2009-08-02). "Rob Marshall circles 'Pirates'". Variety. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
^ http://disney.go.com/pirates/
^ http://d23.disney.go.com/news/2012/01/breaking-news-rob-marshall-set-to-develop-into-the-woods/
^ http://www.afterelton.com/archive/elton/people/2007/1/hollywoodmen3.html

[edit] External links

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Rob Marshall at the Internet Movie Database
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Rob Marshall at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

v t e Films directed by Rob Marshall

1990s	Annie (1999)

2000s	Chicago (2002) Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Nine (2009)

2010s	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

Awards for Rob Marshall

v t e Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film (2000–2019)

Ang Lee (2000) Ron Howard (2001) Rob Marshall (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Ethan & Joel Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) Tom Hooper (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Ben Affleck (2012)

Complete list (1948–1959) (1960–1979) (1980–1999) (2000–2019)

v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography (1976–2000)

Tony Charmoli (1976) Ron Field (1977) Ron Field (1978) Kevin Carlisle (1979) Alan Johnson (1980) Walter Painter (1981) Debbie Allen (1982) Debbie Allen (1983) Michael Smuin (1984) Twyla Tharp (1985) Walter Painter (1986) Michael Peters / Dee Dee Wood (1987) Alan Johnson (1988) Walter Painter / Paula Abdul (1989) Paula Abdul / Dean Barlow / Michael Darrin (1990) Debbie Allen (1991) Paul Taylor (1992) Michael Peters (1993) Linda Talcott (1994) Ulysses Dove (1995) Anita Mann / Charonne Mose (1996) Marguerite Derricks / Sarah Kawahara (1997) Marguerite Derricks / Peggy Holmes (1998) Judith Jamison / Marguerite Derricks (1999) Rob Marshall (2000)

Complete list (1990–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–present)

v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography (2001–2025)

Jim Moore / George Pinney / Jon Vanderkolff (2001) Doug Jack / Sarah Kawahara / Kenny Ortega / Debra Brown (2002) Sandra Bezic / A.C. Ciulla / Christopher Dean / Jamie Isley / Michael Seibert (2003) Jason Samuels Smith (2004) Christopher Dean (2005) Charles Klapow / Kenny Ortega / Bonnie Story (2006) Wade Robson / Mia Michaels / Rob Marshall / John Deluca (2007) Wade Robson (2008) Rob Ashford / Tyce Diorio (2009) Mia Michaels (2010) Mia Michaels / Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo (2011) Joshua Bergasse (2012)

Complete list (1990–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–present)

v t e Helpmann Award for Best Choreography in a Musical (2001–2020)

Ann Reinking (2001) David Atkins (2002) Rob Marshall and Cynthia Onrubia (2003) Garth Fagan (2004) Susan Stroman (2005) Ross Coleman (2006) Kelley Abbey and Kenny Ortega (2007) Peter Darling (2008) Wayne Cilento (2009) Kelley Abbey (2010) Matthew Bourne and Stephen Mear (2011)

Complete list (2001–2020)

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