Sam Taylor-Johnson

Sam Taylor-Johnson

1967-03-04 London, England, UK 41 Credits

Biography

Sam Taylor-Johnson (born Samantha Louise Taylor-Wood; 4 March 1967) is an English director and producer. She is best known for directing the films Nowhere Boy (2009), Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), and Love You More (2008).

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Back to Black

Back to Black

2024

Director, Executive Producer

6.7
Directing Producing

The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Bl...

A Million Little Pieces

A Million Little Pieces

2019

Screenplay, Director, Producer

6.2
Writing Directing Producing

A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.

Half the Picture

Half the Picture

2018

as Self

6.6
Acting

At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors talk about their art, lives and careers.

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

2016

as Self

3.3
Acting

Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insigh...

Crazy About Tiffany's

Crazy About Tiffany's

2016

as Herself

6.9
Acting

A provocative and rare glimpse at the most iconic luxury jeweler in the world. From past to present, discovering the behind the scenes creation to tho...

Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

Director

5.9
Directing

When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little d...

James Bond Supports International Women's Day

James Bond Supports International Women's Day

2011

Director

5.0
Directing

This short film is made by 'We Are Equals' to celebrate International Women's Day. James Bond video for international women's day shows 007's feminine...

Nowhere Boy

Nowhere Boy

2009

Director

7.2
Directing

A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies,...

Love You More

Love You More

2008

Director, Producer

6.3
Directing Producing

Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' during the summer of 1978.

Three Minute Round

Three Minute Round

2008

Director

Directing

Three Minute Round depicts the Klitschko brothers, Vitali and Wladimir, in the moments after defeating their rivals in separate championship boxing ma...

Sigh

Sigh

2008

Director

Directing

Sigh was made in collaboration with the BBC Concert Orchestra and features a score made especially for it by Academy-Award winning composer Anne Dudle...

That White Rush

That White Rush

2007

Director

Directing

Sam Taylor-Wood says she can't believe the silly questions that people keep asking about her latest work, presented in the Ukrainian pavilion. That Wh...

The Servant

The Servant

2007

Director

Directing

The figures in this piece are the fashion designer Bella Freud, daughter of Lucian and granddaughter of Sigmund, and her husband, the writer James Fox...

The Last Century

2006

Director

Directing

In her film The Last Century (2006), what appears to be a static image of a group of people slowly reveals itself to be a real, filmed take, timed to ...

Destricted

Destricted

2006

Director, Writer

4.4
Directing Writing

A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.

Death Valley

Death Valley

2006

Director

Directing

Death Valley is recognised as the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere and one of the hottst places on earth. The rocks tell a story of endless chan...

After Van Halen

After Van Halen

2005

Director

Directing

The graceful, ephemeral longing highlighted in this work is brought back down to earth with the title – after Van Halen's Jump. Single-screen projecti...

Elton John - Elton in Four Decades

Elton John - Elton in Four Decades

2004

as Self

Acting

A 90 minute program of film footage from the Elton John archive, carefully selected for Elton's fans. Elton exclusively gives an overview of the chose...

David

David

2004

Director

Directing

Simply lit from one light source (the lamp in the Madrid hotel room where it was shot) and shot in a single long take after Beckham finished training,...

Ascension

Ascension

2003

Director

Directing

2003 Sam Taylor-Wood video art work featuring a tap dancer

Strings

Strings

2003

Director

Directing

A string quartet, dressed in black tie, seated in an arc that curves away from the viewer, play part of Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 2 in F major ...

Prelude in Air

Prelude in Air

2002

Director

Directing

2002 Sam Taylor-Wood short video art piece featuring a man playing an imaginary string instrument.

A Little Death

2002

Director

6.0
Directing

Taylor-Johnson updates traditional still life imagery. What seems at first to be a quiet arrangement of a dead hare and peach on a table starts to dec...

Pieta

Pieta

2001

as Herself

Acting

2001 Sam Taylor-Wood video art short

Mute

2001

Director

Directing

2001 Sam Taylor-Wood video art work featuring a man praying in silence

Pieta

Pieta

2001

Director

Directing

2001 Sam Taylor-Wood video art short

Still Life

Still Life

2001

Director

Directing

2001 Sam Taylor video art piece featuring rotting fruit in time lapse

Breach (Girl & Eunuch)

Breach (Girl & Eunuch)

2001

Director

Directing

Reminiscent of Warhol, Breach depicts a girl in ever-heightening grief, but with the sound of her tears removed. The person inflicting her agony is a...

Hysteria

Hysteria

1999

Director

Directing

1999 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece featuring a dancer in agony

Third Party

Third Party

1999

Director

Directing

As Harold Pinter famously said, Taylor-Johnson is 'the weasel under the cocktail cabinet' at this particular party. The erotic undercurrents between t...

Method in Madness

1998

Director

Directing

1998 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece featuring a dude goin' nuts

Noli Me Tangere

Noli Me Tangere

1998

Director

Directing

The title of this piece is the well-known warning of Jesus to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection. It translates to Touch me not. This biblical scen...

Atlantic

Atlantic

1997

Director

Directing

In Sam Taylor-Johnson's words, 'I wanted (Atlantic) to feel like you could be coming in, as you say, at any point, not necessarily at the beginning, o...

Sustaining the Crisis

1997

Director

Directing

The Swedish actress Amanda Ooms, who appeared in several of Taylor-Johnson's early works, is here juxtaposed with a man who is filmed separately. When...

Knackered

Knackered

1996

Director

Directing

1996 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece focusing on a naked singer

Misfit

1996

Director

Directing

The brink of 2000. The misfits refuse to get krunk.

Travesty of a Mockery

Travesty of a Mockery

1995

Director

Directing

A 10 minute film that depicts a man and a woman having an argument. This domestic drama is enacted simultaneously on two separate projected screens—th...

Brontosaurus

1995

Director

Directing

Informed by cinematic and documentary traditions, Taylor-Johnson has been working with photography, film and video in London since the early 1990s. Sh...

Killing Time

Killing Time

1994

Director

Directing

As four people lip-synch to the grand, passionate sounds of the Richard Strauss opera Elektra, the contrast between the banality of modern life and th...

Pent-Up

Pent-Up

1994

Director

Directing

The interior monologues of five characters are made audible, giving way to a host of efforts on the part of the viewer to create connections or manufa...

Middlesex

N/A

Director

Directing