Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel
Schnabel in 2010
Born	(1951-10-26) October 26, 1951 (age 73) New York City, U.S.
Education	University of Houston
Known for	Painting film
Style	"Plate paintings"
Movement	Neo-expressionism
Spouses	Jacqueline Beaurang ​ ​ (m. 1980; div. 1992)​ Olatz López Garmendia ​ ​ (m. 1993; div. 2010)​ Louise Kugelberg ​ (m. 2019)​
Children	7, including Vito
Website	julianschnabel.com

Julian Schnabel (born October 26, 1951) is an American painter and filmmaker. In the 1980s, he received international attention for his "plate paintings"—with broken ceramic plates set onto large-scale paintings. Since the 1990s, he has been a proponent of independent arthouse cinema. Schnabel directed Before Night Falls, which became Javier Bardem's breakthrough Academy Award-nominated role, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was nominated for four Academy Awards. For the latter, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director^[1] and the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as receiving nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director and the César Award for Best Director.