Oscar Sharp is a BAFTA-nominated British filmmaker best known for short films The Kármán Line, Sign Language and Sunspring, and upcoming television series The Human Conditions [1] for HBO MAX, produced by Damon Lindelof and Matt Reeves.
Work
In 2010 Sign Language, [2] about an idealistic human billboard in London's Oxford Street, won the Reed Short Film Competition and Virgin Media Shorts. [3]
His 2015 film The Kármán Line, [4] starred Olivia Colman as a wife and mother who contracts an illness causing her to gradually levitate. It won Best Short at the British Independent Film Awards [5] and was nominated for the Best British Short Film at the BAFTAs and was produced by Campbell Beaton. [6] [7] The film was subsequently released by The New Yorker and PBS. [8] [9]
Sharp then signed with Tobey Maguire's company Material Pictures to develop his first feature film [10] and was named a Star of Tomorrow by Screen International. [11]
In 2016 Sharp teamed with creative technologist Ross Goodwin and actor Thomas Middleditch ( Silicon Valley (TV series)) to create Sunspring. It was the first film to be entirely scripted by artificial intelligence, and produced widespread international discussion. [12]
Sharp and Goodwin followed Sunspring in 2017 with It's No Game, a short film depicting a Writers Guild of America strike in the face of Artificial Intelligence. It stars David Hasselhoff, in which the actor performs dialogue generated by an AI from a large collection of his past performances. [13] It also stars Sarah Hay and Tom Payne (actor).
In 2016, 20th Century Fox signed Sharp to co-write and direct the feature film Woolly: The True Story of the De-Extinction of One of History’s Most Iconic Creatures, based on the upcoming book by Ben Mezrich (author of The Accidental Billionaires, basis of The Social Network). [14] The book is an account of the de-extinction work of Harvard Geneticist George M. Church, among others.
In 2021 HBO Max announced [15] [16] [17] it was developing The Human Conditions, a "Fantastical Medical Drama" about "a young British doctor that must treat impossible illnesses and the emotional issues that underlie them" created by Sharp and Executive Produced by Damon Lindelof & Matt Reeves.
Background & Education
Sharp grew up in a rural British village, and with no connections to the film industry. He attended NYU Graduate Film on a Fulbright scholarship. His professors were Todd Solondz, Spike Lee and Darren Aronofsky.
References
- ^ Hibberd, James (2021-07-23). "Damon Lindelof, Matt Reeves Team with Oscar Sharp for HBO Max Magical Medical Drama". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ^ Sign Language at IMDb
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^ Hulme, Lucinda Everett, with additional reporting by Rebecca Lefort and James.
"Virgin Media Shorts: Oscar Sharp on Grand Prize winning short film Sign Language". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
{{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) - ^ The Kármán Line at IMDb
- ^ "Pride wins best film at BIFAs". Retrieved 2017-05-01.
- ^ "BAFTA Guru Shorts Nominees".
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2015-03-05). "Bafta Shorts 2015 review – a sparky collection with some great ideas". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
- ^ Larson, Sarah. "The Screening Room: "The Kármán Line"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
- ^ "The Kármán Line". Film School Shorts. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
- ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (2014-08-22). "Tobey Maguire's Material Signs Oscar Sharp To Blind Deal Off Short Pic 'The Karman Line'". Deadline. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
- ^ "Oscar Sharp, Stars of Tomorrow 2015". Retrieved 2017-05-01.
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^ Newitz, Annalee.
"Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense". Ars Technica. Conde Nast. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
"This is what happens when an AI-written screenplay is made into a film". The Guardian. 2016-06-10. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
Tual, Morgane (2016-06-10). "Une intelligence artificielle écrit le scénario d'un court-métrage". Le Monde.fr (in French). ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
"Künstliche Intelligenz: Die Drehbuchmaschine". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
"Benjamin, la primera inteligencia artificial que escribe guiones". One - Vodafone (in European Spanish). 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
Kamps, Haje Jan. "必見！ AIが映画脚本を書いたらこうなった". TechCrunch Japan. Retrieved 2017-05-01. - ^ Carter, Stephen L. (2017-04-28). "Coming to the Multiplex: Movies Written by Machines". Bloomberg View. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
- ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (11 August 2016). "Oscar Sharp To Direct Ben Mezrich Mammoth Thriller 'Woolly". Deadline Hollywood. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
- ^ "Damon Lindelof, Matt Reeves, Oscar Sharp Team for HBO Max Fantastical Medical Drama". 23 July 2021.
- ^ "Oscar Sharp, Damon Lindelof & Matt Reeves Developing Medical Drama 'The Human Conditions' at HBO Max". 23 July 2021.
- ^ "Damon Lindelof, Matt Reeves Team with Oscar Sharp for HBO Max Magical Medical Drama". The Hollywood Reporter. 23 July 2021.
