Terry Zwigoff Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1948
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Singular filmmaker Terry Zwigoff showed his talent for giving both real life and fictional outsiders their cinematic due in his as yet small but distinguished oeuvre. A San Francisco resident, Zwigoff held numerous jobs, including musician, shipping clerk, printer, and welfare office worker...Read More

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The $40,000 Man

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Ghost World and Art School Confidential collaborators Daniel Clowes and director Terry Zwigoff team up once again to pen this comedic parody concerning a legendary astronaut and American icon who is injured in an automobile accident and rebuilt by the government as a bionic man. The ambitious plan Read More

2009
Art School Confidential

Crew: Director

Actors: Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar

Synopsis: Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and comic artist and screenwriter Daniel Clowes, who collaborated for the acclaimed 2001 comedy-drama Ghost World, team up once again for this offbeat satire. Jerome (Max Minghella) is an aspiring artist who arrives at a prestigious East Coast art institute to study. While Read More

5/5/06
Bad Santa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: The Christmas season just got a lot less joyous in this very dark comedy. Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) is a con man and a thief who teams up with his friend Marcus (Tony Cox), a midget, for a very special scam each year during the holiday season. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a Read More

11/26/03
Ghost World

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas, Bob Balaban

Synopsis: Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, who enjoyed breakthrough success with his 1994 documentary Crumb, shifts gears as he examines the lives of two young women on the verge of leaving their adolescence behind in his first dramatic feature. Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) are two close Read More

7/20/01
Crumb

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb

Synopsis: So well-regarded was the documentary Crumb (1994) that the failure of it and of the same year's equally acclaimed Hoop Dreams (1994) to result in Oscar nominations caused a media furor which forced the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to revamp its documentary nomination process. Robert Crumb Read More

1994
Louie Bluie

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: String band leader Howard Armstrong (Louie Bluie) is the joyful, emotive, strutting subject of this tribute by fellow musician and cellist Terry Zwigoff. Filmed at the 1985 Friscofest, Louie's unique Afro-American string band shares the stage with Cab Calloway and with Les Blank and Alan Governar Read More

1985