Nickname:	Baz Luhrmann / BLAM / Baz
Known for:	Moulin Rouge!, Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet
Birth name:	Mark Anthony Luhrmann
Birthday:	17 September 1962, New South Wales, Australia
Height:	5' 7" 1.70 m

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. AFP - Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann is to shoot a 3D remake of F.Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" starring Leonardo DiCaprio in Sydney, officials said Sunday.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER and filmmaker DAVID LYNCH were among the speakers at movie mogul DINO DE LAURENTIIS’ memorial service in Los Angeles on Monday (15Nov10).Aussie director Baz Luhrmann also joined family members and friends for the send-off at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Downtown Los Angeles.Russian tenor Alexey Sayapin performed Ave Maria
Acclaimed musical-maker BAZ LUHRMANN has given GLEE his seal of approval and asked TV bosses to let him direct an episode of the hit show.The Australian director, who won two Oscars for his 2001 movie musical Moulin Rouge!, admits he is a big fan of the high school singing show and is desperate to get
Director BAZ LUHRMANN is to share his tips for making successful movie-mu sicals during his tenure as honorary chairman of the New York Musical The atre Festival (NYMF).The Moulin Rouge! filmmaker will take charge of the 2010 event next mon th (Sep10), hosting the opening night gala and running a masterclass on t he creation
Moviemaker BAZ LUHRMANN will show off his artistic skills when he paints = a new mural on a hotel wall in Mumbai, India.The director has teamed up with fellow Australia Vincent Fantauzzo for = the project at Le Sutra hotel.Le Sutra is India’s first art hotel and was created by a number of top =
'Moulin Rouge!' has been voted Best Film of the Decade.

The 2001 musical - which starred Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman and was directed by Baz Luhrmann - topped a survey of 150,000 movie fans, narrowly beating Batman epic 'The Dark Knight' and British zombie spoof 'Shaun of the Dead' into second and third place respectively.
David Miller, one of the singers from international opera group Il Divo, is going to get hitched soon, Us Magazine reported. The 36-year-old singer has proposed to his girlfriend Sarah Joy Kabanuck, an opera singer and theater actress who played in Baz Luhrmann's "La Boheme" in Broadway. David Miller and Sarah Joy Kabanuck have been dating for 6 years. The couple plans to tie the knot in David's hometown New York City in August.
Filmmaker BAZ LUHRMANN is desperate to team BEYONCE KNOWLES and HUGH JACKMAN for a new movie musical after directing the stars for a medley of showtunes at the Oscars.Knowles and Jackman whizzed through renditions of Lady Marmalade, All That Jazz and Somewhere Over The Rainbow in a performance medley last month (22Feb09) helmed by the
HUGH JACKMAN has enlisted the help of his AUSTRALIA director BAZ LUHRMANN as he prepares to host the Oscars.The first non-American to present the Academy Awards has asked Luhrmann and his wife Catherine Martin to help him create a knock-out opening performance.The couple is choreographing a big opening musical number, according to sources close to
Reuters - The Outback epic "Australia" is director Baz Luhrmann's first film since he dazzled audiences with "Moulin Rouge!" seven years ago, and critics are wondering if the $130 million drama can live up to its hype.
Moviemaker Baz Luhrmann returned to his music roots to compose and record the final theme for his Australia epic with Elton John, folk star John Butler and Aussie treasure Rolf Harris.


Moviemaker Baz Luhrmann has defended his right to blow a huge budget on shooting his new epic Australia - insisting the movie will cheer up people affected by the global credit crisis.


Moviemaker BAZ LUHRMANN has defended his right to blow a huge budget on shooting his new epic AUSTRALIA - insisting the movie will cheer up people affected by the global credit crisis.The Moulin Rouge! filmmaker has promised to dazzle audiences with his World War II romance - starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman - set
Moviemaker BAZ LUHRMANN returned to his music roots to compose and record the final theme for his AUSTRALIA epic with ELTON JOHN, folk star JOHN BUTLER and Aussie treasure ROLF HARRIS.The director and Elton John came up with the lyrics and music for the powerful tune, which plays over the end credits - and Butler,
Overlong and self-indulgent, Baz Luhrmann's "Australia," a homage to epic adventure films, feels like a slog through the outback itself.


Aussie moviemaker BAZ LUHRMANN still can’t believe he completed work on outback epic AUSTRALIA - because the set was struck by a string of problems.The Moulin Rouge! director had to cope with cast and crew illnesses, food poisoning and a host of other setbacks to complete the film, which stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.Luhrmann
Aussie moviemaker BAZ LUHRMANN has truly suffered for his art - his latest film has put him in a wheelchair.The Moulin Rouge! director has been hobbling around on crutches for the past two weeks after injuring his foot on the set of new film Australia, and now he’s finishing the project from a wheelchair.Luhrmann has
RUSSELL CROWE has slammed fellow Australian BAZ LUHRMANN for failing to pay for stables the actor built for him.Horse riding enthusiast Crowe set up the stables on his ranch near Sydney for Luhrmann’s forthcoming outback epic Australia - and was secretly hoping the move would secure him a role in the movie.But Crowe failed to
BAZ LUHRMANN credits being turned away from Australia’s National Institute Of Dramatic Art with spurring him on to become a movie director.The Moulin Rouge! filmmaker was devastated when he was rejected from the prestigious school as a teenager, but vowed to carve out a successful career regardless of his knockback.And the 44-year-old still remembers some
Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann hopes his new movie Australia will match the Lord Of The Rings' success in boosting tourism for the country. The Oscar-winning director hopes his film - starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman - will have a similar impact on Australia's tourism industry as the Lord Of The Rings had on New Zealand - the scene of the trilogy's spectacular setting.

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