There may not be an obvious connection between Damien Chazelle’s horror script “The Last Exorcism Part 2” and “Whiplash,” but the adapted screenplay nominee drew heavily on his training as a ...

J.K. Simmons revealed in an oral history of “Whiplash” to mark the film’s 10th anniversary that he assumed the film’s director, Damien Chazelle, was a Black man after he first read the script about ...

"I’m picturing Antoine Fuqua," the Academy Award winner admitted when first meeting with Chazelle. According to Simmons, it was producer Jason Reitman who first introduced him to Chazelle’s feature ...