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Joss Whedon
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American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
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Joseph Hill Whedon, born on June 23, 1964, in New York City, is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, and television director. He is the son of Tom Whedon and has two siblings, Zack Whedon and Jed Whedon. Whedon is left-handed and resides in New York City. He was educated at Winchester College and Wesleyan University. His notable work includes the Buffyverse.
Whedon has received the Nebula Award for Best Script and the Bradbury Award. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. He has two children. His religious views include atheism, humanism, and secular humanism.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 23 June 1964
- Works
- 292
Top works
- Lel ha-shidur ha-ḥozer
- Yareaḥ zeʾev ʻaravot
- ha-Noseʻa ha-shemini 4 - ha-teḥiyah
- Buffy contre les vampires / Angel, reboot Boom!, La bouche de l'enfer
- Buffy contre les vampires, reboot Boom!, Tome 9, L'affrontement final avec le grand méchant du multivers
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Film & TV
Writing · New York City, New York, USA
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon (/ˈwiːdən/ WEE-dən; born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer. He is best known as the creator of several television series: the supernatural drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), the short-lived space Western Firefly (2002), the Internet musical miniseries Dr. Horrible's…
Known for
- Marvel Studios Assembled — Self (archive footage)2021
- A Place Among the Dead — JW2020
- Here's How It Was: The Making of 'Firefly' — Self2017
- Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond — Self2015
- Another Period — Duane Reade2015
- Con Man — Snow Guy2015
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Man on Escalator in Museum (uncredited)2014
- Marvel: 75 Years, from Pulp to Pop! — Self2014
- Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show — Self2014
- Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe — Self2014
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1964
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 21,689
- Total plays
- 455,619
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Joss Whedon is a writer, director, executive producer, & creator of several television series, most famously Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dollhouse. In film he wrote and directed 2005's Serenity, based on his television series Firefly, he co-wrote and produced 2012's The Cabin in the Woods, and wrote and directed 2012's Marvel's The Avengers, the third highest-grossing film of all time. Additionally he has written 2 musicals. One an episode of Buffy, "Once more with feeling" and
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: spectra and redshifts
· 2001 · cited 1,934x
- The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: power-spectrum analysis of the final data set and cosmological implications
· 2005 · cited 1,722x
- Full-scale partial nitritation/anammox experiences – An application survey
· 2014 · cited 1,720x
- OVERVIEW OF THE SDSS-IV MaNGA SURVEY: MAPPING NEARBY GALAXIES AT APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY
· 2014 · cited 1,553x
- The Galaxy in Context: Structural, Kinematic, and Integrated Properties
· 2016 · cited 1,478x
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Quotes
- “The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy, the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. That element of surprise … genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series.”
- “I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around. … Aliens are something everyone else is doing.”
- “Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn’t suck.”
- “You can either watch TV or you can make TV.”
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.”
- “The network called up and said 'We piggybacked you on the deal for another show,' I'm like 'Okay, so what you're saying to my writers is that they weren't picked up when they thought they were and now that they are it was because of something that has nothing to do with them. Okay. Great. Stop calling'.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon (/ˈwiːdən/ WEE-dən; born June 23, 1964) is an American filmmaker, comic book writer, and composer. He is best known as the creator of several television series: the supernatural drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), the short-lived space Western Firefly (2002), the Internet musical miniseries Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008), the science fiction drama Dollhouse (2009–2010), the Marvel Cinematic Universe films The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020), and the science fiction drama The Nevers (2021).
After beginning his career in sitcoms, Whedon wrote the poorly received horror comedy film Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) – which he later adapted into the acclaimed television series of the same name – co-wrote the Pixar animated film Toy Story (1995), and wrote the science fiction horror film Alien Resurrection (1997). After achieving success as a television showrunner, Whedon returned to film to write and direct the Firefly film continuation Serenity (2005), to co-write and produce the horror comedy film The Cabin in the Woods (2012), and to write and direct the Shakespeare adaptation Much Ado About Nothing (2012). For the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Whedon wrote and directed the ensemble superhero film The Avengers (2012) and its sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). He also co-wrote the DC Extended Universe superhero film Justice League (2017), for which he also served as director for re-shoots, replacing Zack Snyder (who retained directorial credit).
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