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Helen Catherine Hardwicke (born October 21st 1955, in Harlingen, Texas), known professionally as Catherine Hardwicke, is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She's perhaps best known for directing the teen drama film ''Film/Thirteen2003'', the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of vampire romance ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', and the music video for Music/LadyGaga's song "Til It Happens to You". In 2012, she contributed to the creation of a public service announcement for the National Women's History Museum. She also designed the "Four Ladies of Hollywood" {{sculpture|s}}, located at the western end of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which depicts actresses Creator/DorothyDandridge, Creator/DoloresDelRio, Creator/AnnaMayWong and Creator/MaeWest.
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Helen Catherine Hardwicke (born October 21st 1955, in Harlingen, Texas), known professionally as Catherine Hardwicke, is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She's perhaps best known for directing the teen drama film ''Film/Thirteen2003'', the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of vampire romance ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'', and the music video for Music/LadyGaga's song "Til It Happens to You". In 2012, she contributed to the creation of a public service announcement for the National Women's History Museum. She also designed the "Four Ladies of Hollywood" {{sculpture|s}}, located at the western end of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which depicts actresses Creator/DorothyDandridge, Creator/DoloresDelRio, Creator/AnnaMayWong and Creator/MaeWest.
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Because Creator/KristenStewart was only seventeen during the filming of ''Twilight'', filming took a lot longer because Stewart could legally only work five-and-a-half hours a day. Hardwicke was willing to put up with the challenges this presented because she felt Stewart was perfect as Bella Swan.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Because Creator/KristenStewart was only seventeen during the filming of ''Twilight'', filming took a lot longer because Stewart could legally only work five-and-a-half hours a day. Hardwicke was willing to put up with the challenges this presented because she felt Stewart was perfect as Bella Swan.
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Helen Catherine Hardwicke (born October 21st 1955, in Harlingen, Texas), known professionally as Catherine Hardwicke, is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She's perhaps best known for directing the teen drama film ''Film/Thirteen2003'', the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of vampire romance ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', and the music video for Music/LadyGaga's song "Til It Happens to You". In 2012, she contributed to the creation of a public service announcement for the National Women's History Museum. She also designed the "Four Ladies of Hollywood" sculpture, {{sculpture|s}}, located at the western end of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which depicts actresses Creator/DorothyDandridge, Creator/DoloresDelRio, Creator/AnnaMayWong and Creator/MaeWest.
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Helen Catherine Hardwicke (born October 21st 1955, in Harlingen, Texas), known professionally as Catherine Hardwicke, is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She's perhaps best known for directing the teen drama film ''Film/Thirteen2003'', the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of vampire romance ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', and the music video for Music/LadyGaga's song "Til It Happens to You". In 2012, she contributed to the creation of a public service announcement for the National Women's History Museum. She also designed the "Four Ladies of Hollywood" sculpture, located at the western end of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which depicts actresses Creator/DorothyDandridge, Creator/DoloresDelRio, Creator/AnnaMayWong and Creator/MaeWest.
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* ''Film/{{Stargirl}}'' (2020): Executive producer
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* ''Film/DontWorryDarling'' (2022): Executive producer
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Helen Catherine Hardwicke (born October 21st 1955, in Harlingen, Texas), known professionally as Catherine Hardwicke, is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She's perhaps best known for directing the teen drama film ''Film/Thirteen2003'', the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of vampire romance ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', and the music video for Music/LadyGaga's song "Til It Happens to You". In 2012, she contributed to the creation of a public service announcement for the National Women's History Museum.
Hardwicke grew up on her family's farm in [=McAllen=] on the US-Mexico border; after graduating from high school she studied architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. However, she felt architecture was too creatively-limiting and subsequently moved to Los Angeles to attend the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She began making short films and working as a production designer, including working with and learning from directors such as Creator/RichardLinklater, Creator/CameronCrowe and Creator/DavidORussell. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Hardwicke was the production designer for films such as ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'', ''Film/TwoDaysInTheValley'', ''Film/TheNewtonBoys'', ''Film/ThreeKings'', ''Film/{{Antitrust}}'' and ''Film/VanillaSky'', before making her directorial debut with ''Thirteen'' in 2003.
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!!Filmography includes:
* ''Film/{{Thirteen|2003}}'' (2003): Director and co-writer
* ''Film/LordsOfDogtown'' (2005): Director
* ''Film/TheNativityStory'' (2006): Director and executive producer
* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' (2008): Director
* ''Film/RedRidingHood'' (2011): Director
* ''Plush'' (2013): Director, co-writer and producer
* ''Reckless'' (2013): Director (pilot episode) and executive producer
* ''Miss You Already'' (2015): Director
* ''Eyewitness'' (2016): Director (two episodes) and executive producer
* ''Series/ThisIsUs'' (2018; 2020): Director (episodes "Six Thanksgivings" and "The Cabin")
* ''Film/MissBala'' (2019): Director
* ''Film/DontWorryDarling'' (2021): Executive producer
* ''Series/GuillermoDelTorosCabinetOfCuriosities'' (2022): Director (episode: "Dreams in the Witch House")
!!Tropes found in or associated with Hardwicke's works include:
* BreakthroughHit: Her directorial debut ''Thirteen'' managed to be this; it was critically-acclaimed and won or was nominated for many awards. ''Twilight'' was an even bigger hit commercially, grossing $400 million on a budget of $37 million, making Hardwicke the most commerically successful woman director at the time.
* CreatorThumbprint: Many of her works are {{coming of age}} stories starring teen characters, especially teen girls, with the [[AgeAppropriateAngst struggles of adolescence]] and [[InnocenceLost loss of innocence]] being recurring themes. Hardwicke has stated her belief it's important to treat the issues teenagers deal with seriously and sympathetically.
* DoingItForTheArt: Because Creator/KristenStewart was only seventeen during the filming of ''Twilight'', filming took a lot longer because Stewart could legally only work five-and-a-half hours a day. Hardwicke was willing to put up with the challenges this presented because she felt Stewart was perfect as Bella Swan.
* FollowUpFailure: ''Lords of Dogtown'' was Hardwicke's second film after her successful and acclaimed debut with ''Thirteen'', but didn't do nearly as well; it received mixed critic reviews and was a box office flop, though it has since become a cult classic. Her next film, ''The Nativity Story'', also received mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office. Then Hardwicke directed ''Twilight'' as her next film project, which was a smash hit at the box office and helped make the ''Twilight'' franchise a worldwide phenomenon.
* ProductionPosse:
** She has worked with Creator/NikkiReed in a few films: ''Thirteen'', ''Lords of Dogtown'', ''Twilight'' and "Til It Happens to You"'s music video. Hardwicke has known Reed since the latter was five years old; Hardwicke was once in a relationship with Reed's father and they remained close even after the relationship ended. Reed helped Hardwicke write the screenplay for ''Thirteen'', which was partly based on Reed's own life.
** She directed Creator/BillyBurke in both ''Twilight'' and ''Red Riding Hood''; in both films he played the father of the main heroine.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** She was at one point considered as the director of ''Twilight'''s sequel ''New Moon'', but turned it down. She stated that she passed on it because of ExecutiveMeddling, feeling that the studio wanted to rush the film's production. She said she didn't regret this decision, also confessing she actually preferred the first ''Twilight'' book to the sequels. There were rumors at the time that the studio were the ones who dropped Hardwicke from ''New Moon'', although she clarified that her contract with them gave her right of first refusal.
** She was signed on to produce and direct a TV adaptation of ''Literature/TheRavenCycle'' in 2017, but it eventually fell into DevelopmentHell.
* WriteWhoYouKnow:
** Hardwicke based parts of ''Thirteen'' and the main characters of Tracy and Evie upon Nikki Reed, who she had known for most of her life up to this point. Reed collaborated with Hardwicke on the screenplay and played the role of Evie.
** Or ''direct'' who you know in this case. Hardwicke lived in Venice Beach and personally knew many of the Z-Boys from surfing; she later directed a biographical film about them, ''Lords of Dogtown''.
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Hardwicke grew up on her family's farm in [=McAllen=] on the US-Mexico border; after graduating from high school she studied architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. However, she felt architecture was too creatively-limiting and subsequently moved to Los Angeles to attend the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She began making short films and working as a production designer, including working with and learning from directors such as Creator/RichardLinklater, Creator/CameronCrowe and Creator/DavidORussell. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Hardwicke was the production designer for films such as ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'', ''Film/TwoDaysInTheValley'', ''Film/TheNewtonBoys'', ''Film/ThreeKings'', ''Film/{{Antitrust}}'' and ''Film/VanillaSky'', before making her directorial debut with ''Thirteen'' in 2003.
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!!Filmography includes:
* ''Film/{{Thirteen|2003}}'' (2003): Director and co-writer
* ''Film/LordsOfDogtown'' (2005): Director
* ''Film/TheNativityStory'' (2006): Director and executive producer
* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' (2008): Director
* ''Film/RedRidingHood'' (2011): Director
* ''Plush'' (2013): Director, co-writer and producer
* ''Reckless'' (2013): Director (pilot episode) and executive producer
* ''Miss You Already'' (2015): Director
* ''Eyewitness'' (2016): Director (two episodes) and executive producer
* ''Series/ThisIsUs'' (2018; 2020): Director (episodes "Six Thanksgivings" and "The Cabin")
* ''Film/MissBala'' (2019): Director
* ''Film/DontWorryDarling'' (2021): Executive producer
* ''Series/GuillermoDelTorosCabinetOfCuriosities'' (2022): Director (episode: "Dreams in the Witch House")
!!Tropes found in or associated with Hardwicke's works include:
* BreakthroughHit: Her directorial debut ''Thirteen'' managed to be this; it was critically-acclaimed and won or was nominated for many awards. ''Twilight'' was an even bigger hit commercially, grossing $400 million on a budget of $37 million, making Hardwicke the most commerically successful woman director at the time.
* CreatorThumbprint: Many of her works are {{coming of age}} stories starring teen characters, especially teen girls, with the [[AgeAppropriateAngst struggles of adolescence]] and [[InnocenceLost loss of innocence]] being recurring themes. Hardwicke has stated her belief it's important to treat the issues teenagers deal with seriously and sympathetically.
* DoingItForTheArt: Because Creator/KristenStewart was only seventeen during the filming of ''Twilight'', filming took a lot longer because Stewart could legally only work five-and-a-half hours a day. Hardwicke was willing to put up with the challenges this presented because she felt Stewart was perfect as Bella Swan.
* FollowUpFailure: ''Lords of Dogtown'' was Hardwicke's second film after her successful and acclaimed debut with ''Thirteen'', but didn't do nearly as well; it received mixed critic reviews and was a box office flop, though it has since become a cult classic. Her next film, ''The Nativity Story'', also received mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office. Then Hardwicke directed ''Twilight'' as her next film project, which was a smash hit at the box office and helped make the ''Twilight'' franchise a worldwide phenomenon.
* ProductionPosse:
** She has worked with Creator/NikkiReed in a few films: ''Thirteen'', ''Lords of Dogtown'', ''Twilight'' and "Til It Happens to You"'s music video. Hardwicke has known Reed since the latter was five years old; Hardwicke was once in a relationship with Reed's father and they remained close even after the relationship ended. Reed helped Hardwicke write the screenplay for ''Thirteen'', which was partly based on Reed's own life.
** She directed Creator/BillyBurke in both ''Twilight'' and ''Red Riding Hood''; in both films he played the father of the main heroine.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** She was at one point considered as the director of ''Twilight'''s sequel ''New Moon'', but turned it down. She stated that she passed on it because of ExecutiveMeddling, feeling that the studio wanted to rush the film's production. She said she didn't regret this decision, also confessing she actually preferred the first ''Twilight'' book to the sequels. There were rumors at the time that the studio were the ones who dropped Hardwicke from ''New Moon'', although she clarified that her contract with them gave her right of first refusal.
** She was signed on to produce and direct a TV adaptation of ''Literature/TheRavenCycle'' in 2017, but it eventually fell into DevelopmentHell.
* WriteWhoYouKnow:
** Hardwicke based parts of ''Thirteen'' and the main characters of Tracy and Evie upon Nikki Reed, who she had known for most of her life up to this point. Reed collaborated with Hardwicke on the screenplay and played the role of Evie.
** Or ''direct'' who you know in this case. Hardwicke lived in Venice Beach and personally knew many of the Z-Boys from surfing; she later directed a biographical film about them, ''Lords of Dogtown''.
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