Critics Review of Ron Howard a Beautiful Mind
This story first appeared in the Jan. 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter mag.
Ron Howard, a 2-fourth dimension Oscar winner for directing and producing 2001's A Beautiful Mind, is set to receive the Broadcast Picture show Critics Association'south Louis Thirteen Genius Award at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards on January. 15 at the Hollywood Palladium. At present 60, he's been working steadily ever since acting in his get-go film, 1959's The Journey; he'south directed 22 movies that have grossed $3.7 billion; and he'due south readying his next film, the seafaring hazard In the Middle of the Bounding main, which opens March thirteen. He recently shared with THR what each decade has taught him.
The '60s
"I grew upwardly on TV shows where part of the chore was to repeat yourself and mask that repetition," says Howard, who played the adorable tyke Opie on The Andy Griffith Show from 1960 to 1968. But once he became a director, he vowed to break that habit. "I didn't want to be a managing director who'southward given a narrow voice or genre. I wanted to be more chameleonlike."
The '70s
Stuck in another repetitive role, equally squeaky-clean teen Richie Cunningham on Television receiver's Happy Days (1974-1984), Howard escaped into directing when Roger Corman greenlighted his first movie, 1977'due south Grand Theft Automobile, at his New Globe Pictures. "When I was trying to become those Formula One cars to perform the intense manner I wanted in [my last feature film] Blitz, I realized I was applying all kinds of tricks I learned going dorsum to Grand Theft Auto," says Howard of the debt he owes Corman.
The '80s
Howard realized he had a knack for discovering stars-in-the-making. For his brothel-in-a-morgue comedy, Nighttime Shift (1982), Howard cast the unknown Michael Keaton every bit the motormouth "idea man" Pecker Blazejowski, and he made Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah household names with his 1984 mermaid-out-of-water romance, Splash. "That worked out for Michael and Tom and all," says Howard. "I'm proud to say I'grand an early adopter of Chris Hemsworth." The actor, who starred in 2013's Blitz, will command the ship in Heart of the Sea.
The '90s
With his 1996 Mel Gibson thriller, Ransom, says Howard, "I moved into drama and realized how genre shifts the audience'due south expectations — words that would mean nearly goose egg in an risk or comedy are measured in a mystery. They look for clues. That helped when I got into the Dan Brown earth [with 2006's The Da Vinci Code] and had to play that game." Apollo xiii (1995), he says, was "my first motion-picture show based on real events. I realized that there was a real entertainment value for the audition in honoring the actuality while synthesizing and ever and then slightly heightening information technology to effort to requite a cinematic visceral sense of what the characters are experiencing emotionally." He adds, "From and so on, I've been in a position where the creative community has trusted me and immune me to exist exploratory."
The '00s
Howard's online venture, Pop.com, bankrolled by Paul Allen, flopped just taught him valuable lessons. "My awareness of what's happening in digital helped inform and shape Arrested Development," he says of the show he narrates and executive produces for Netflix. With his partner, Brian Grazer, he also is producing two new series, Oscar's Hotel and Parallax, for Vimeo On Need.
T he Future
When he was 35, he predicted that his all-time years every bit a director probably would come between the ages of l and 65. Only now he's ready to extend that. Says Howard, "Considering that Clint Eastwood is out with American Sniper, I think I tin tack another decade onto that."
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