Trademarks: His films have scores consisting of both orchestral and melodic electronic music. (i.e.- Tangerine Dream in "Thief" and "The Keep" Terje Rypdal and the Kronos Quartet in "Heat"
Attended the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the International Film School in London.
Unlike most directors, likes to operate the camera himself to get much of his photography, as he did in Heat (1995), shooting almost 60% of it.
Was Will Smith's personal choice to direct Ali (2001). Spike Lee campaigned vigorously against Mann, saying that only a black director could do Ali's story justice.
Father of Ami Canaan Mann
Got an impressive knowledge about criminality and police procedures.
Is a close friend of legendary author Edward Bunker since they both worked together on the adaptation of the novel No Beast So Fierce.
Is one of Robert De Niro's favourite directors.
Often uses the color blue for dramatic reasons.
Is a close friend of independent film director Abel Ferrara.
Directed the first Hannibal Lecter film (Manhunter), and produced The Aviator, which at one point he had been attached to direct. Jonathan Demme, who directed The Silence of the Lambs, also directed Melvin and Howard, which also featured the character Howard Hughes.
Family lived in Chicago when the first controlled atomic reaction was produced, along with Harrison Ford Tom Berenger and Chase Hoyt.
Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Directors Branch) [2000-]
In 1985, sued William Friedkin for plagiarism, claiming that Friedkin stole the entire concept of "Miami Vice" (1984) when he made the movie To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) (which, ironically, starred William L. Petersen, who later played Will Graham in Manhunter (1986)). Mann lost the lawsuit.
Is the director of Miami Vice (2006). He was executive producer of the "Miami Vice" (1984) TV series and among other things greatly responsible for the show's unique look and feel.
Despite suing William Friedkin in 1985 for "stealing the concept of Miami Vice for To Live and Die in L.A.", the two directors are close friends nowadays. Friedkin even tease Mann in several interviews by saying "Michael Mann is one of my favourites directors because he tries to make films like mine!".
Tried to make an epic film about drug-trade in Southern California with screenwriter Shane Salerno. But they abandoned the project after Steven Soderbergh's rival project, Traffic, got green-lighted.
His favourites films are John Ford's My Darling Clementine, Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, Friedrich Wilhem Murnau's Faust, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalyspe Now, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, Alain Resnais' Last Year in Marienbad, Carl Theodore Dryer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.
Frequently uses the "thumbs up" sign after he feels that last take was the one.
Directed Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, and Peter Dobson in one of two roles that they each share with Anthony Hopkins, Harvey Keitel, and Val Kilmer. Cox and Farina played Hannibal Lecter and Jack Crawford in Manhunter, roles played by Hopkins and Keitel in Red Dragon. Farina and Keitel had both played Ray Barbone in Get Shorty. Hopkins was playing King Lear with the Royal Shakespeare Company while Manhunter was in production. Brian Cox was doing the same when The Silence of the Lambs was in production. Dobson plays Chris Sirhelis in L.A. Takedown, which was remade as Heat, with Val Kilmer. Heat was also directed by Mann. Kilmer played Elvis Presley in True Romance, while Dobson played him (except for the voice) in Forrest Gump.
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