John Carney(V)
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
John Carney was born in 1972 in Dublin, Ireland. He is a writer and director, known for Sing Street (2016), Once (2006) and Flora and Son (2023).
- Awards
- 18 wins & 25 nominations total
Writer
Director
Producer
- Height
- 6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Born
- Children
- Sam Carney
- ParentsJohn Charles Carney
- Other worksMusic video for 'Orange' (charted at number 30 in Irish Singles Chart) by David O'Doherty - Director
- Publicity listings
- TriviaFormer bassist and vocalist with Irish band, The Frames (1990-1993) one of whose members Glen Hansard won Best Original Song Oscar for "Falling Slowly" in Carney's film Once (2006).
- Quotes[on _Sing Street (2016) as a musical] The big thing for me is I wanted to make a musical but I didn't want anyone to know it was a musical, and I didn't want to put the word musical on the poster. So it's a stealth musical; it creeps up on you - it doesn't seem like one, but it actually is. I felt that a really necessary part of making a modern musical is that it doesn't have any of the traditional recognisable tropes of the older musicals, which I love, many of them - Guys and Dolls (1955), Singin' in the Rain (1952), An American in Paris (1951), New York, New York (1977). Films where the music moves the drama along, it doesn't just break from the drama, but actually the music is as important as the dialogue and moves the characters and the plot along. [2016]
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