Damien Chazelle

Damien Sayre Chazelle ʃəˈzɛl born January 19 1985 is a FrenchAmerican filmmaker He directed the psychological drama Whiplash 2014 the musical romance La La Land 2016 the biographical drama First Man 2018 and the period black comedy Babylon 2022 For Whiplash he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay His biggest commercial success came with La La Land nominated for 14 Academy Awards winning six including Best Director making him the youngest person to win the award at age 32 He has also directed two episodes of the Netflix limited series The Eddy 2020 Description above from the Wikipedia article Damien Chazelle licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia