Film: Chicago
Wins for movie: Best Director, National Board of Review
Oscar wins/nominations: None
Bio: Already renowned as a brilliant choreographer for stage, screen and television, Marshall made the transition to film director with his 2002 big-screen adaptation of the 1972 John Kander and Fred Ebb stage musical Chicago, which became a smash hit and secured his place among Hollywood’s A-list helmers. Marshall first made a splash on the small screen with Disney and ABC’s ratings-grabbing TV adaptation of Annie (1999) starring Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and Alan Cumming. It marked Marshall’s first professional foray behind the camera as a director and not only was it the most-viewed TV movie of that year, it won him an Emmy for directing and choreography and a Directors Guild of America award nomination. With Chicago , he gave the audience a potent, energetic, engaging and highly original film that captured the electricity of Broadway-style dance without sacrificing a theatrical sensibility for cinematic realism.
