Noah Baumbach trivia: 30 amazing facts about the director

Noah Baumbach is one of the best known American film directors. He has made many films that received critical acclaim and many accolades.

So let’s find out some trivia and facts about his life and career!

1. Noah Baumbach was born on September 3, 1969
2. He is an American film director
3. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Squid and the Whale (2005)
4. He is known for making dramatic comedies
5. He has also written and directed the films Margot at the Wedding (2007), Frances Ha (2012), While We’re Young (2014), Mistress America (2015), The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), and Marriage Story (2019)
6. Baumbach was born in Brooklyn, New York City
7. He is the son of novelist and film critic Jonathan Baumbach and The Village Voice critic Georgia Brown
8. They later divorced during his adolescence
9. He has three siblings
10. He graduated from Brooklyn’s Midwood High School in 1987
11. He received his BA in English from Vassar College in 1991
12. Soon after, he briefly worked as a messenger at The New Yorker
13. His father was Jewish; his mother is Protestant
14. In September 2013, it was reported that Baumbach is secretly directing at DreamWorks Animation
15. It will be an animated feature film adaptation of Berkeley Breathed’s book series, Flawed Dogs
16. Baumbach met actress Jennifer Jason Leigh in 2001, while she was starring on Broadway in Proof
17. The couple married on September 2, 2005
18. They have one son
19. Leigh filed for divorce from Baumbach on November 15, 2010, in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences
20. The divorce was finalized in September 2013
21. Baumbach’s romantic and creative collaboration with actress, writer and director Greta Gerwig, which began late in 2011, is described in an April 2013 profile in The New Yorker
22. In March 2019, it was announced Gerwig and Baumbach had a son Harold
23. Baumbach made his writing and directing debut at the age of 26 with Kicking and Screaming in 1995
24. A comedy about four young men who graduate from college and refuse to move on with their lives
25. The film starred Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, and Carlos Jacott
26. It premiered in 1995 at the New York Film Festival
27. Baumbach was chosen as one of Newsweek’s “Ten New Faces of 1996”
28. His film Marriage Story, starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Laura Dern
29. It was released on November 6, 2019
30. The film received acclaim from critics, with many ranking it among Baumbach’s best work