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• The Stepfather (2009)

  Draven99's Musings - Found Nov. 5, 2009 McCormick is no Rob Zombie ( Halloween ), Gore Verbinski ( The Ring ), or Zack Snyder ( Dawn of the Dead ). No, indeed.

• The Times They Are a-Changing

  Keep Hope Inside - Found Nov. 1, 2009 A beautiful juxtaposition of Bob Dylan's 'The Times They Are a-Changing' and Zack Snyder's envisioning of the alternate future presented in...

• Left 4 Dead 'Dawn of the Dead'-Inspired Custom Campaign Released ...

  Shack News - Found Nov. 2, 2009 Dead Before Dawn, the much-anticipated fan-made campaign based on the Crossroads Mall of Zack Snyder's zombie remake Dawn of the Dead, was released

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  Hollywood Stock Exchange - Found Oct. 12, 2009 Zack Snyder made an impressive feature directing debut on 2004's . With that under his belt, Snyder is tackling big Hollywood projects.

• Jon Hamm Joins Zack Snyder?s Sucker Punch

  Your Entertainment Now - Found Aug. 19, 2009 Jon Hamm (Mad Men) has joined the cast of director Zack Snyder?s upcoming action fantasy Sucker Punch.

• Casting Continues For Zack Snyder's SUCKER PUNCH!!

  Ain't It Cool News - Found Aug. 6, 2009 Merrick here... Carla Gugino has joined the cast of Zack Snyder's 'Alice in Wonderland with machine guns' opus SUCKER PUNCH;

• Mad Men's Jon Hamm joins up with Zack Snyder's SUCKER PUNCH!

  Aint It Cool News - Found Aug. 19, 2009 Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I suppose it had to happen eventually. Zack Snyder couldn't just keep pouring mega-hot women into his next movie...

• DVDs: Tabloid Auteur: Muscular Vision of Samuel Fuller

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• Indie Focus: 'Women in Trouble'

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Zack Snyder
Snyder at the 2007 Comic-Con
Born	March 1, 1966 (1966-03-01) (age 43) Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
Years active	1990–present
Spouse(s)	Deborah Snyder (September 25, 2004 – present)

Zack Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. After making his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead, he gained wide recognition with the 2007 box office hit 300, adapted from writer-artist Frank Miller's Dark Horse Comics miniseries of the same name, and later went on to co-write and direct the 2009 superhero film Watchmen.

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Style 4 Awards 5 Filmography 6 References 7 External links

Personal life

Snyder was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. His father was an executive recruiter and his mother was a painter and a photography teacher at Daycroft School, which Snyder later attended. Zack attended Camp Owatonna in Harrison, Maine during the summer months as a child. Snyder's mother inspired him to study painting a year after high school at Heatherley School of Fine Art in England, although he had already begun filmmaking. Afterward, Snyder attended with the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California (where his classmates included Michael Bay and Tarsem Singh). Snyder still lives in Pasadena with his second wife, producer Deborah Snyder, and his six children.¹

Career

Snyder went on to shoot, as a director and cinematographer, television commercials for such clients as the automobile companies Audi, BMW, Subaru and Nissan, among others. Other commercial work has been for clients including Nike, Reebok, and Gatorade.

Snyder made his feature film debut with the remake Dawn of the Dead (2004), and scored a box office hit with 300 (2007), adapted from writer-artist Frank Miller's Dark Horse Comics miniseries of the same name. His Warner Bros. film Watchmen was released on March 6, 2009; the film made $25,153,000 on its first day. His follow-up project titled Guardians of Ga'Hoole has finished filming and is in Post-production. It is due for release in 2010. In the fall of 2009, Zack Snyder is scheduled to start work on a film called Sucker Punch,² which is scheduled for release in 2011. The movie is based on an original script, written by Snyder and Steve Shibuya, about an insane young woman in a mental hospital who fantasizes of escape with her fellow inmates.

Style

Snyder often uses slow motion in fight scenes in his films, which Amy Nicholson of Boxoffice magazine remarked separates the director from other filmmakers who make multiple cuts and close-ups during a fight. A minute-long shot from 300 shows King Leonidas walking down as he slaughters his enemies, and the camera only dollys in and out to emphasize each kill.³

Awards

Snyder's body of work has earned him a number of awards, including two Clio Awards and a Gold Lion Award for his Jeep "Frisbee" commercial. He also won an award for his humorous commercial "General's Party".

Filmography

• Dawn of the Dead (2004)
• 300 (2007)
• Watchmen (2009)
• Guardians of Ga'Hoole (2010)
• Sucker Punch (2011)

References

External links

• Cruel and Unusual Films – Snyder's production company
• Snyder at MySpace
• Zack Snyder at the Internet Movie Database
• Zack Snyder at Believe Media
• Zack Snyder Biography at Tribute.ca

v • d • e Films directed by Zack Snyder Dawn of the Dead (2004) · 300 (2007) · Watchmen (2009) · Guardians of Ga'Hoole (2010) · Sucker Punch (2011)

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NAME	Snyder, Zack
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	American film director
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States
DATE OF DEATH
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