Marcus Nispel

Marcus Nispel
Born	Marcus Nispel (1963-05-26) 26 May 1963 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Occupation(s)	film director, and producer

Marcus Nispel (born 15 April 1963) is a German-American film director, producer, and former commercial, and music video director.

Life and early career

Nispel was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. He started his career in advertising as an art director for Young & Rubicam in Frankfurt. He came to America on a Fulbright scholarship in 1984 at the age of 20 and made his directing debut in 1989 with a series of music videos for C&C Music Factory.

While living in New York, Nispel founded and operated his own production company, Portfolio Artists Network, before merging with RSA-USA, and then joining MJZ in 2000.

To date, Nispel has directed over 1000 commercials and music videos. His commercial clients include: AT&T, Audi, Canon, Chase, Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, Fidelity, Kodak, Levi's, L'Oréal, Marlboro, Mercedes-Benz, Motorola, Nike, Panasonic, Pepsi, RCA, Showtime, Sprint, Sprite, Unisys, UPS, US Postal Service, VISA Gold as well as MTV, ABC, CBS and NBC.

His music videos include over fifteen #1 songs and several breakthrough videos for artists such as the Spice Girls, Simply Red, Puff Daddy, Bush, No Doubt, the Fugees, George Michael, Janet Jackson, Elton John, Billy Joel, Aretha Franklin, Cher, Mylène Farmer, Olé Olé (Marta Sánchez), Mariah Carey, k. d. lang, Tony Bennett, C+C Music Factory, Bette Midler, LL Cool J, Bryan Adams and Gloria Estefan.

Nispel has been awarded numerous international advertising accolades including several Clio Awards, the Moebius Award, the Grand Prix  at the BDA Awards, honors from the New York, Houston and Chicago Film Festivals and the Art Directors Club. His work has garnered 12 MTV Music Video Award nominations resulting in four MTV Video Music Awards, including a 1993 MTV Best European Video Award for "Killer/Papa was a Rolling Stone" by George Michael. Nispel has won two Billboard awards and Music Video Filmmaker Association Awards as well as the MVPA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

Marcus Nispel has been the subject of two documentaries and was featured in Time Magazine’s year-end issue "Best of 1996" for his Fidelity Investments campaign, "A Time Has Come Today." In 1997, Nispel was featured as a speaker at the AICP MOMA Show. The AICP has honored him with several awards and his work is now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art. His work has been highlighted and screened at the New York Film Festival, the Art Director’s Club and at the Film and Broadcast Museum in Frankfurt.

In 1996 he was honored at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s "Cross Cultural Dreams" retrospective of his music videos. He was featured in a chapter of Armond White’s book on the pop revolution and was a recipient of the Black Achievement Award for the positive portrayal of African Americans in mass media.

Nispel has been featured in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Details, The New York Times, The LA Times, AdWeek, AdAge and Creativity.

Marcus is married to songwriter/editor Dyan Humes Nispel, they have twin sons.

Film career

In 2003 Platinum Dunes owner filmmaker Michael Bay offered Nispel to direct the remake of the classic 1974 horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. the remake with the same name was a box-office success with mixed reviews, however it was well-received by fans, gained popularity, spawnd a prequel, comic-book series and started a long line of horror remakes from the 70's and the 80's, also starts Nispel's career as a film director.

In 2007 he directed and produced the epic action film Pathfinder a remake to Norwegian film with the same name. the film failed at the box-office and poorly received by critics. according to Nispel, he believed the reason the film was a flop because he had been forced by 20th Century Fox to cut the gore and digitally remove some of the extreme violence out of at least 32 scenes for a "R" rating, also forced to trim down 23 scenes (including significant plot development) for reasons of time and pacing. however the film did gained a small cult following, and a successful graphic novel adaptation.

In 2009 he directed the Friday the 13th reboot of the original film and the franchise. it was box-office success and the second highest-grossing film in the Friday the 13th series, but met with negative response from fans and critics.

It was recently confirmed that Nispel will direct a reboot of the Conan the Barbarian franchise. He has stated that this was his childhood dream project.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Producer
2003	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre	Y
2004	Frankenstein	Y	Y
2007	Pathfinder	Y	Y
2009	Friday the 13th	Y
2011	Conan the Barbarian	Y

References

• Marcus Nispel To Direct Conan
• Marcus Nispel is directing Conan

External links

• Official website
• Marcus Nispel at IMDb
• The Hollywood Reporter
• Template:Fr icon Innamoramento.net : Interview de Marcus Nispel
• Marcus Nispel at the Music Video Database