Director
Julie Taymor
Born 1952 · Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She had been the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before leaving in March 2011, after four months of previews (the longest preview period for any show in Broadway history), following artistic differences with the producers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Taymor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Directed
Acting
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Self · 2018
Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino
Self · 2010
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Stage and Film Director · 2014
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2025
Pride of The Lion King
Self · 2011
On Broadway
Self (archive footage) · 2019
The View
Self - Guest · 1997
Kurosawa's Way
Self · 2011
Lights, Action, Music
Self · 2007
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Self · 2010
Muse of Fire
Self · 2013
Made in Hollywood
Self · 2005
Hollywoods Oper - Eine Oper für Los Angeles
Self · 2006
Julie Taymor: Shakespeares Kino
Herself · 2017
The Making of The Lion King Broadway
Herself