Making of ‘Whiplash’: How a 20-Something Shot His Harrowing Script in Just 19 Days Harvard grad Damien Chazelle got Jason Reitman and Jason Blum's attention with his tale of a brilliant young ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been just about a full year since “Whiplash” debuted—or, rather, exploded—out of the Sundance Film Festival, where it seized both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. Now 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 ...

Now that Whiplash was getting a bigger canvas, Chazelle took a second try at Teller. This time, he got him. “I loved the intensity of the script,” says the 27-year-old actor.