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Tom Ford Biography
Birth Name:
Thomas Carlyle Ford
Birth Place:
Austin, Texas, United States
Profession
actor/wr/producer/di
Fast Facts
- Before studying at Parsons The New School for Design he spent a year in Paris where his interest in fashion was piqued
- Set up production company Fade to Black Productions produced A Single Man in 2009, also his directorial debut
- Launched his Tom Ford label in 2006
- Is known for his controversial advertising campaigns, including one that portrayed a woman with perfume between her legs, which was banned in 2007
- Received the Geoffery Beene Lifetime Achievement Award by the CFDA in 2014
- Featured at no
- 19 in the British GQ's "50 Best Dressed Men in Britain" list in 2015
- Won the Satellite Auteur Award in 2016
Awards
- 2017Golden Globe-Best Director - Motion Picture: nominated
- 2017Golden Globe-Best Screenplay - Motion Picture: nominated
- 2017Writers Guild Awards-Adapted Screenplay: nominated
- 2017BAFTA Film Awards-Best Director: nominated
- 2017BAFTA Film Awards-Best Adapted Screenplay: nominated
- 2017David di Donatello Awards-Best Foreign Film: winner
- 2016Venice Film Festival-Jury Prize: winner
- 2016Critics' Choice Awards-Best Adapted Screenplay: nominated
- 2010Critics' Choice Movie Awards-Best Adapted Screenplay: nominated
- 2010Independent Spirit Awards-Best First Feature: nominated
- 2010Independent Spirit Awards-Best First Screenplay: nominated