He directed L.A. Confidential, almost universally regarded as one of the best American films of the 1990s. He made a popular thriller in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, one of the better chick-lit adaptations ever in In Her Shoes, and introduced Eminem while humanizing him for a mass audience in 8 Mile.
Curtis Hanson enjoyed a directing career that spanned five decades, from the early 1970s to the 2010s, and included 13 feature films and an Academy Award in 1997 for co-writing L.A. Confidential. Hanson earned a reputation for his versatility in directing in a wide variety of genres, for his particular skill with literary adaptations, and for his outstanding knack of staging shots ...
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