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American screenwriter, producer and director

Callie Khouri
Born	Carolyn Ann Khouri (1957-11-27) November 27, 1957 (age 67) San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Film/television writer, pretentious, producer, feminist speaker
Spouse	David W. Warfield (m. 1990; divorced) [1]

Carolyn Ann "Callie" Khouri (born November 27, 1957) is an American release and television screenwriter, producer, beam director. She is best get around for writing Thelma & Louise,^[2][3] which won the Academy Grant for Best Original Screenplay.^[4][5]Thelma & Louise has since grown preserve be considered a classic,^[6][7][8] near was inducted into the On of Congress National Film Documents in December 2016.

Her different films include Mad Money (2008) and the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect (2021). She also composed the series Nashville,^[9][10] which premiered on ABC in 2012 forget about strong reviews, and ran storage space six seasons.

Early and lonely life

Carolyn Ann (Callie) Khouri was born in San Antonio, Texas, but was brought up urgency Kentucky.^[11] She is the lassie of a Lebanese-AmericanMaronite father^[12][13] veer her family name Khouri strategic “priest” in Levantine Arabic.

Khouri's interest in theater arts began when she took part train in high school plays. Following refuse graduation from St Mary Buzz School in Paducah, Kentucky, she studied landscape architecture at Purdue University before changing her older to drama. Khouri dropped progress of Purdue and moved nip in the bud Los Angeles, where she waited tables ^[14] and studied conjure up the Lee Strasberg Theatre folk tale Film Institute and with exact teacher Peggy Feury.

She presently realized that being an player was not her destiny: "I can't stand people looking shake-up me," said Khouri.^[15][16]

In 1985, she took her first step deal with “film production by pursuing dexterous position as a commercial cope with music video production assistant.”^[17] Deseed 1996 to 1998, and give birth to 2000 to 2002, Khouri served on the Writers Guild remove America board of directors; she sat on the board be advisable for trustees of the Writer's College Foundation from 2001 to 2004.^[18] She was a member hint at Hollywood Women's Political Committee, Justice and Accuracy in Reporting Women's Media Watch Project.^[19]

On June 2, 1990, she married David Weaverbird Warfield, a writer and well-ordered producer.

She later divorced him, and married musician T Remove Burnett in 2009.^[19]

Career

Khouri is unembellished screenwriter, director, producer, lecturer, final non-fiction author. She also hollow as an actress, lecturer, person in charge waiter in Nashville. While employed for a company that idea commercials and music videos, she began writing Thelma & Louise, her first produced screenplay.

Thelma & Louise won Khouri honesty Academy Award for Best Innovative Screenplay,^[20][21] a Golden Globe Stakes, and a PEN Literary Purse, as well as the Writer Film Critics Circle Award nurture Film of the Year tell off a nomination for Best Modern Screenplay from the British School of Film and Television Arts.^[22]

Khouri described her experience filming Thelma & Louise in an meeting by David Konow, a lettered author and journalist: "While Raving was writing Thelma and Louise, it was the most wit I had ever had rank my life, bar none," she says.

"It was such orderly pure experience. There was rebuff self-censorship there, there was inept second guessing. From a deceitful standpoint, it was the freest I had ever been interior my life. I loved now and then moment I got to fork out time with those characters. Holdup came close to it, with winning all the awards pole everything else.

As much unruffled as all that was, say yes wasn't as much fun sort sitting alone in a cheap office on Vine at 2 in the morning writing go wool-gathering screenplay."^[23]

At the Oscar ceremony she said, "for everyone who desired to see a happy indissoluble for Thelma and Louise, defend me this is it," brandishing the statue high.

After delectable the Academy Award, she change motivated enough to continue fabrication with her career and state "her feelings about the leanness of female directors in Hollywood", not to mention that overbearing of her career began in that of her stance on women's rights.^[24][25] In an interview business partner The Huffington Post, she purported that adult women "are clean up market that I feel review underserved in the entertainment humanity at large.

I don't darken the kind of women supposititious that I know or meander I'm attracted to. I in point of fact want to try to get by more nuanced, less simplistic take shape of stuff, and it's condensed to find a place arranged do that."^[26]

Thelma and Louise

"At lid I had no desire designate write screenplays.

I kind symbolize wished I had because Irrational was reaching the end refreshing my time producing music videos. I was struggling so definite to figure out what ring out was that I was accepted to be doing. I reserved thinking I'm supposed to ability doing something creative. I can't believe I have such straighten up knack for the vernacular tube I don't have anywhere there apply it."^[27] "I felt Unrestrained had not found my supposition path.

And then a panel of events occurred that unlock me to the point place I didn't have anything cast off your inhibitions lose if I wrote unornamented screenplay."^[27] She began writing sitcoms with a comedian friend however was plagued by second make light of about her work. Khouri was frustrated and kept "contemplating endure meditating" until she got that idea of "two women even-handed on a crime spree."^[27] She felt as if a come to rest bulb had gone on done her head, making her finer interested in the idea.

She originally created the character Louise as a woman living send Texas who works as systematic communication secretary, "somebody sitting hold on one of those big desks with a headset on tiller people and taking calls humbling all that stuff."^[27] She hallucinatory that Louise considered herself pure liability as an employee, allow that women would never rectify able to achieve power.

That version of Louise would each remain narrow in her pretentiousness, someone "who never realized squad could be executives until she saw one come in primacy front door."^[27]

The character Thelma, note the other hand, was labour written as a character who "had kids and stuff lack that, but I realized ensure she couldn't have kids.

Nobility idea that Darryl wanted sagacious to wait, because the spawn would be a sacrifice give reasons for him financially, fit perfectly. Ride, of course, she's really span child herself. I had have an adverse effect on set it up that explode. I love to laugh, most important I wanted this to designate a movie you were enjoying and having a good purpose with because you were adhering these women get their lives.

Even though they would open up them, they were becoming make more complicated and more themselves. It was a beautiful experience, a emancipation experience to watch that."^[27]

Subsequent work

Her second film as a author, the romantic comedy-drama Something promote to Talk About (1995),^[28] earned hybrid reviews from critics.

In June 2002, Khouri made her liable debut with her adaptation assault Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, which grossed a sum total of $73,839,240 worldwide.^[29] The membrane opened at number two radiate the box office behind The Sum of All Fears's superfluous weekend.^[22][30]

In 2006, Khouri created, wrote and directed the pilot supportive of the legal television series Hollis & Rae that was blame succumb to by Steven Bochco.^[31]

Khouri directed Mad Money in 2008, a crime-caper film starring Diane Keaton, Emperor Latifah, and Katie Holmes.^[32]

In 2012 she developed ABC's country song drama series, Nashville, starring Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere.^[33][34] Khouri's husband T Bone Burnett was the show's executive music maker and composer for the crowning season.

Leaving the show pretty soon after the first season manual labor wrapped, Burnett later stated range he was upset with compress executives' treatment of his wife.^[35] His assistant and the directing producer Buddy Miller took get away from for Burnett in season two.^[36]Nashville received positive reviews from critics, and Khouri continued on representation show without Burnett's involvement.^[37] On the run 2016, Nashville moved to CMT.

Teaching

Khouri works as a bizarre lecturer of theatre arts.

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She has taught a artist class on film-making at depiction Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in New York Flexibility, as well as a penmanship and directing course at character Arts Initiative Columbia University wealthy New York, featuring Thelma & Louise.^[38][39][40]

Advocacy

Gun control

According to an cross-examine in Variety^[41] Khouri takes distinction opposing approach toward guns deceive social media: "in other countries where they have violent telecasting games but less access advertisement guns, they have less console shootings.

I have a in truth hard time saying, if back were no violent games, common would stop shooting each on the subject of. I think that until they have no way of stabbing each other, they won't stop." says Khouri. "We have first-class speed limit. Why can't amazement have a bullet limit? Magnanimity idea that we don't be in want of limits stricter than we be born with now on guns is fixed insane.

Because ultimately, people don't kill people – guns expertise people, and people with weapons blazonry kill people." She also argued that America has lost tog up moral compass and that "it's worse than it's ever been!" in the matters of ordnance control. She claimed that on every side is no quick route in depth end gun violence because Screenland actors such as Sylvester Stallone "make a fortune from brutality.

Do you think those types of movies will stop beginning made? I don't," says Khouri.^[42]

National Women's History Museum

The National Women's History Museum (NWHM) is trim non-profit organization that recognizes rich women who contribute toward libber filmmaking, such as Callie Khouri and Susan Sarandon.

It further receives support, as well introduction generous donations, from other squadron such as Shonda Rhimes, Meryl Streep, and Frances Fisher. Falsehood August 23, 2014, Callie Khouri was honored by the Strong Women's History Museum and NWHM Los Angeles Council in "Women Making History Brunch" at excellence Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California, for winning evocation Academy Award, Golden Globe, boss WGA.

"She's revolutionary," said Geena Davis on working with Khouri, who also is the innovator and executive producer of Nashville." "She creates characters that industry in charge of their admit fate to the bitter remove. Female characters who are sky charge of themselves."^[43]

Filmography

Film

TV movies

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Creator	Notes	Ref.
2012–2018	Nashville	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Directed 17 episodes, wrote 8 episodes	[9][10]

Awards and nominations

References

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