J.j. Abrams's biography

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams is 56 years old film director born at New York, New York, USA. He was born on Monday 27th of June 1966. Jeffrey is often nicknamed as Jeffrey Jacob Abrams, J.J. Abrams. According to year of birth 1966 Jeffrey belongs to Generation X. Birthday on 27th of June means he is Cancer. Cancer is a watery sign. They are very friendly and show motherly love to everyone. According to ascendant calculator, an important trait of these natives is their sensitive nature.

Jeffrey is native english speaker. He is white american. Jeffrey is citizen of United States of America. He is jewish. His primary profession is to be film director. You can know him also as film producer, television producer, screenwriter, television actor, film actor, composer, actor, writer, television director, manufacturer, film score composer, executive producer. Jeffrey is recently known as showrunner.

J.j. Abrams's dad

J.j. Abrams's father's name is Gerald W. Abrams. He is known as film producer. Jeffrey´s father was born on Tuesday 26th of September 1939 in Harrisburg.

J.j. Abrams's mom

J.j. Abrams's mother's name is Carol Ann Abrams.

J.j. Abrams's family

He has 1 son.

J.j. Abrams's son: Henry Abrams

J.j. Abrams's son's name is Henry Abrams. He is known as film director. Jeffrey´s son was born on Sunday 19th of July 1998 in Los Angeles.

J.j. Abrams's schools

We found 2 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Sarah Lawrence College, Palisades Charter High School.

Detailed informations about Jeffrey´s schools

Attended and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York (1988).

J.j. Abrams's career

Jeffrey´s main focus is to be film director. Jeffrey is famous thanks to Creator of Lost, Fringe, Alias.

Is J.j. Abrams gay ?

He is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

J.j. Abrams's Awards

He received award for Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Dramatic Series for work Lost in 2006
He received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for work Lost in 2005
He received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for work Lost in 2005

J.j. Abrams's Rankings

Ranked #29 on Entertainment Weekly magazine's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood (2007).

J.j. Abrams's Nominations

He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for work Lost in 2005
Jeffrey was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for work Lost in 2009
Jeffrey was nominated for Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series for work Lost in 2004
He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for work Lost in 2005
Jeffrey was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay for work Armageddon in 1998
Jeffrey was nominated for Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for work Lost in 2005
Jeffrey was nominated for Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture for work Star Trek in 2010
He was nominated for Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Dramatic Series for work Lost in 2007
He was nominated for Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series for work Fringe in 2009
Jeffrey was nominated for Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form for work Star Trek in 2010

What else you don't know about J.j. Abrams ?

Jeffrey´s middle name is Jacob.

What J.j. Abrams has done for a first time

His debut film Mission: Impossible III (2006) was the most expensive film ever made by a first-time director until Tron: Legacy (2010), directed by Joseph Kosinski, which cost nearly $20 million more than MI3.
He had discussed wanting to be more involved in the third season of Lost (2004) (intermittently with his film schedule) because he had not been directly involved in the series since the sixth episode of the first season.
Is the first director to have directed both a Star Trek film and a Star Wars film.

J.j. Abrams's quotes

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.
I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for Felicity (1998) or Alias (2001) ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.
Looking back on my childhood, I have a list of things that are massively important to me. Without question, Star Wars was on the list, and Star Trek was not.
I actually had to use Industrial Light & Magic to remove lens flare in a couple of shots, which is, I know, moronic. But I think admitting you're an addict is the first step towards recovery.
[on Kodak's new Super 8 camera] While any technology that allows for visual storytelling must be embraced, nothing beats film ... The fact that Kodak is building a brand new Super 8 camera is a dream come true. [2016]
I don't think I have a signature.
To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.
What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theatre? You go to the theatre, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behaviour.
My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.
The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.
I love recording music.
I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
I feel like obviously the standard for what television looks like changes all the time.
With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
I've never done Twitter.
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
I'm a fast writer.
I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.
You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heartbreaking drama.
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.
Star Trek (1966) was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
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