Oscar Sharp is a BAFTA-nominated British filmmaker best known for short filmsThe Kármán Line,Sign Language andSunspring, and upcoming television seriesThe Human Conditions[1] forHBO MAX, produced byDamon Lindelof andMatt Reeves.
In 2010Sign Language,[2] about an idealistichuman billboard in London's Oxford Street, won the Reed Short Film Competition and Virgin Media Shorts.[3]
His 2015 filmThe Kármán Line,[4] starredOlivia Colman as a wife and mother who contracts an illness causing her to gradually levitate. It won Best Short at theBritish Independent Film Awards[5] and was nominated for the Best British Short Film at the68th BAFTAs 2015 and was produced byCampbell Beaton.[6][7] The film was subsequently released byThe New Yorker andPBS.[8][9]
Sharp then signed withTobey Maguire's company Material Pictures to develop his first feature film[10] and was named a Star of Tomorrow byScreen International.[11]
In 2016 Sharp teamed with creative technologistRoss Goodwin and actorThomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley (TV series)) to createSunspring. It was the first film to be entirely scripted byartificial intelligence, and produced widespread international discussion.[12]
Sharp and Goodwin followed Sunspring in 2017 with It's No Game, a short film depicting aWriters Guild of America strike in the face of Artificial Intelligence. It starsDavid Hasselhoff, in which the actor performs dialogue generated by an AI from a large collection of his past performances.[13] It also starsSarah Hay andTom Payne (actor).
In 2016,20th Century Fox signed Sharp to co-write and direct the feature filmWoolly: The True Story of the De-Extinction of One of History’s Most Iconic Creatures, based on the upcoming book byBen Mezrich (author ofThe Accidental Billionaires, basis ofThe Social Network).[14] The book is an account of thede-extinction work of Harvard GeneticistGeorge M. Church, among others.
In 2021HBO Max announced[15][16][17] it was developing The Human Conditions, a "Fantastical Medical Drama" about "a young British doctor that must treat impossible illnesses and the emotional issues that underlie them" created by Sharp and Executive Produced byDamon Lindelof &Matt Reeves.
Sharp grew up in a rural British village, and with no connections to the film industry. He attended NYU Graduate Film on aFulbright scholarship. His professors wereTodd Solondz,Spike Lee andDarren Aronofsky.
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