Whit Stillman
| Whit Stillman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
John Whitney Stillman January 25, 1952 Washington, D.C. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA, 1973) |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, film director |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Notable work |
Metropolitan (1990) The Last Days of Disco (1998) |
John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (born January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director known for his 1990 film Metropolitan, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the 1998 romantic drama The Last Days of Disco. Stillman's newest film Love & Friendship premiered in January 2016, starring Kate Beckinsale playing a widow trying to arrange a marriage for her daughter with a wealthy gentleman whom she eventually marries herself.
Whit Stillman was born in 1952 in Washington, D.C., to Margaret Drinker (née Riley), from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a Democratic politician, John Sterling Stillman, an assistant secretary of commerce under President John F. Kennedy (a classmate of Stillman's father at Harvard), from Washington, D.C. His great-grandfather was businessman James Stillman and his great-great-grandfather, Charles Stillman, was the founder of Brownsville, Texas. Stillman grew up in Cornwall, New York and experienced depression during puberty. "I was very depressed when I was 11 or 12," he told The Wall Street Journal. "I was sent to the leading Freudian child psychologist in Washington, D.C. It was heck. The last thing I needed to talk about was guilt about sex." However, when his parents separated, he found that his depression ceased: "I actually felt healthier."
Stillman's godfather was academic E. Digby Baltzell. He attended the Collegiate School, Potomac School and Millbrook School, and then studied history at Harvard University, where he was a member of the Fly Club and wrote for The Harvard Crimson.
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