Neil LaBute Net Worth



Neil LaBute net worth is
$4 Million

Neil LaBute Wiki Biography

Acclaimed and highly discussed filmmaker Neil LaBute has made himself a force to be reckoned with and a name to watch. With his true-to-life cynical and self-absorbed characters and all-too-true social themes, he has firmly established himself as an unforgiving judge of the ugliest side of human nature. LaBute was originally a playwright. He ... 

Full Name	Neil LaBute
Net Worth	$4 Million
Date Of Birth	March 19, 1963
Place Of Birth	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Height	6' (1.83 m)
Profession	Writer, Director, Producer
Education	Royal Academy of Arts, University of Kansas, New York University, Brigham Young University
Nationality	American
Spouse	Lisa Gore
Children	Lily LaBute, Spencer LaBute
Parents	Richard LaBute, Marian LaBute
Siblings	Richard LaBute,Jr.
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Awards	Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, Lucille Lortel Award for Playwrights Sidewalk Inductee(s)
Nominations	Tony Award for Best Play, Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play, Lucille Lortel Award for Ou...
Movies	The Shape of Things, The Wicker Man, In the Company of Men, Some Velvet Morning, Your Friends & Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Death at a Funeral, Lakeview Terrace, Dirty Weekend, Possession, Some Girl(s), Stars in Shorts, Seconds of Pleasure, Sexting, After-School Special, Crooked House, The Geography of ...
TV Shows	Van Helsing, Full Circle

#	Trademark
1	All his films usually consist of a cruel and vicious battle of the sexes with the men portraying unlikeable and trashy misogynists, and the women either crafty vixens or vulnerable victims.
2	Frequently casts Aaron Eckhart

#	Quote
1	The first great lesson I learned - many years ago - is be patient. The first play I had that was optioned by filmmakers was called "Rounder." It was a piece that eventually became the play "The Distance From Here." I waited a year for a film to get made, which never happened. I finally got frustrated enough to make my own film, In the Company of Men (1997) In a way, the second great lesson should read: Be impatient.
2	(On The Soft Skin) It's nice when somebody's actually so bold as to do something so obvious. We're always so worried about being so subtle, and "Oh, is this a cliché?" I think life is often a cliché; you find yourself in moments where you go, "If this was in a movie, people would say this is ridiculous, this is too much." And yet, it happens all the time.
3	My plays are polarizing. People love them or loathe them. I don't care which.
4	I don't shy away from subjects that come to me - and once I decide to do a subject, I don't pull back - but I'm not consciously stirring the pot or ripping stories out of the headlines to create tension and thus shine the light on me.
5	And I also don't think that my work will change your life. I think that at its best, it will raise new questions, give you an alternative view of something and perhaps over time that might lead you to greater understanding about something. But in terms of changing someone's opinion, that's a tall order and I don't see how, in an hour and a half or two hours, that's likely to happen.
6	I don't have a right way that I go about things. I'm not very good at working consistently... The actual planning out of something tends to go on in my head rather than me doing lines between things happening. I'm not good with a trail of Post-its to tell me what scene I need next. I like to finish a scene and then figure out what happens next and find my way to it. If it's not coming, then I walk away from it. I don't find great value in "I must write five pages everyday" because those five pages usually turn into place mats. There's nothing worse than staring at a blank screen and trying to be funny or profound or any of those things. It comes when it does.
7	Sometimes I think it's hard for an audience to know when to laugh. It's such an immediate and spontaneous response, and sometimes we're dictated by who we're with and the general public, and if everybody else is not laughing, it can sometimes quell the feeling inside you and you put a damper on it.
8	I think everybody has a place in an art gallery, they just should keep their mouths shut. They're free to walk around as long as they pay the price, I just don't think they should be dictating policy. I'm big on what the argument the film proposes about subjectivity about art itself. This... [picks up glass of water] can be art because you made it, or it can be a glass of water to me and I can think you're a loon for calling it art, and we could both be right.
9	But that's the beauty and the damning thing in theater, is that what you see will never be seen by anybody else on another night. And when it closes, it's gone. On film you can go back and watch it over and over, but it doesn't change.
10	[on why he writes his plays and screenplays with strong misanthropic tones] I take no pleasure in it, but I'm not afraid of it. Entertainment should be good, not nice and carefree.
11	I start writing about people. If they stay in the house, I say, "This is shaping up to be a play." If they go out to the car, to the grocery store, then I say, "I think it's going to be a film."

#	Fact
1	He was nominated for a 2013 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for New Adaptation for the play, "In the Company of Men" at the Profiles Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
2	Nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play for "Reasons to Be Pretty".
3	His script for In the Company of Men (1997), began with the line "Let's hurt somebody" and developed from there.
4	He became friends with Aaron Eckhart at Brigham Young University. They have worked together at least five times: In the Company of Men (1997), Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Nurse Betty (2000), Tumble (2000) and Possession (2002).
5	Father was a truck driver.
6	He was nominated for the 2001 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play for "The Shape of Things", performed at the Almeida Theatre.
7	He attended the University of Kansas and received his Masters degree in Theater and Film.
8	Attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and graduated with degrees in Theater and Film.

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Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Some Velvet Morning	2013
Some Girl(s)	2013	based on the stage play written by / screenplay by
My America	2012	TV Series 2 episodes
Double or Nothing	2012	Short writer
Stars in Shorts	2012
Denise	2012	Short
BFF	2012/I	Short writer
Bench Seat	2011	Short
After-School Special	2011	Short written by
sexting	2010	Short written by
The Wicker Man	2006	screenplay - as Neil Labute
The Shape of Things	2003	play / screenplay
Possession	2002	screenplay
Bash: Latter-Day Plays	2001	TV Movie
Tumble	2000	Short
Your Friends & Neighbors	1998	written by
In the Company of Men	1997	play / screenplay
Black Chicks	2016	Short post-production
Good Luck: In Farsi	Short post-production
10K	2017	Short
Van Helsing	2016	TV Series written by - 2 episodes
The Mulberry Bush	2016	Short writer
Billy & Billie	TV Series 1 episode, 2016 created by - 10 episodes, 2015 writer - 10 episodes, 2015
Dirty Weekend	2015
My America	2014
It's Okay	2014	Short writer
Ten X Ten	2014	TV Mini-Series
Full Circle	2013	TV Series written by - 10 episodes

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Black Chicks	2016	Short executive producer post-production
Good Luck: In Farsi	Short executive producer post-production
10K	2017	Short producer
Van Helsing	2016	TV Series executive producer - 13 episodes
Some Freaks	2016	executive producer
The Mulberry Bush	2016	Short producer
Billy & Billie	2015	TV Series executive producer - 10 episodes
Full Circle	2013	TV Series co-executive producer - 10 episodes
I Melt with You	2011	executive producer
The Vicious Kind	2009	executive producer
The Shape of Things	2003	producer

Director

Title	Year	Status	Character
Black Chicks	2016	Short post-production
10K	2017	Short
The Mulberry Bush	2016	Short
Billy & Billie	2015-2016	TV Series 11 episodes
Billions	2016	TV Series 1 episode
Hell on Wheels	2013-2015	TV Series 5 episodes
Dirty Weekend	2015
Ten X Ten	2014	TV Mini-Series
Some Velvet Morning	2013
Stars in Shorts	2012	segment director
BFF	2012/I	Short
sexting	2010	Short
Death at a Funeral	2010
Lakeview Terrace	2008
The Wicker Man	2006
The Shape of Things	2003
Possession	2002
Bash: Latter-Day Plays	2001	TV Movie
Nurse Betty	2000
Tumble	2000	Short
Your Friends & Neighbors	1998
In the Company of Men	1997	as Neil Labute

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
High School Spirits	1986	Kyle Skudstad

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Danish Girl	2015	special thanks
The Wolf Knife	2010	special thanks
Cleanflix	2009	Documentary special thanks
The Open Road	2009	the director wishes to thank
Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes	2009	Video documentary short special thanks
Normal Adolescent Behavior	2007	thanks
The Motel	2005	thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Glorious Things Are Sung of Zion	2013	Documentary	Neil Labute
Mi reino por un caballo	2012	TV Series	Himself
Raging Bull: Reflections on a Classic	2011	Video documentary short	Himself
Made in Hollywood	2010	TV Series	Himself
Cleanflix	2009	Documentary	Himself - Director, In the Company of Men
Ànima	2009	TV Series	Himself
Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes	2009	Video documentary short	Himself
Tavis Smiley	2008	TV Series	Himself
Channel 4 News	2008	TV Series	Himself
Killer at Large	2008	Documentary	Himself - Film Director / Author, Fat Pig
Trailers from Hell	2007	TV Series	Himself
HypaSpace	2006	TV Series documentary	Himself
Film Trix 2004	2004	Documentary short	Himself
Nulle part ailleurs	2000	TV Series	Himself
Charlie Rose	1997-1999	TV Series	Himself - Guest / Himself
Independent's Day	1998	TV Movie documentary	Himself

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2010	Jury Prize (Short Films)	Montréal World Film Festival	sexting (2010)
2003	Storyteller Award	Taos Talking Picture Festival
1998	Independent Spirit Award	Independent Spirit Awards	Best First Screenplay	In the Company of Men (1997)
1998	OFTA Film Award	Online Film & Television Association	Best First Feature Film	In the Company of Men (1997)
1997	Jury Special Prize	Deauville Film Festival	In the Company of Men (1997)
1997	Fun Radio Trophy	Deauville Film Festival	In the Company of Men (1997)
1997	Channel 4 Director's Award - Special Mention	Edinburgh International Film Festival	In the Company of Men (1997)
1997	NYFCC Award	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best First Film	In the Company of Men (1997)
1997	STFC Award	Society of Texas Film Critics Awards	Best Screenplay, Original	In the Company of Men (1997)
1997	Filmmakers Trophy	Sundance Film Festival	Dramatic	In the Company of Men (1997)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2016	Jury Award	Tribeca Film Festival	Best Narrative Short	The Mulberry Bush (2016)
2012	Jury Award	Tribeca Film Festival	Best Narrative Short	BFF (2012)
2011	Short Filmmaking Award	Sundance Film Festival	US Fiction	sexting (2010)
2010	First Prize (Short Films)	Montréal World Film Festival	sexting (2010)
2007	Razzie Award	Razzie Awards	Worst Screenplay	The Wicker Man (2006)
2000	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival	Nurse Betty (2000)
1998	CFCA Award	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Best Screenplay	In the Company of Men (1997)
1998	Independent Spirit Award	Independent Spirit Awards	Best First Feature	In the Company of Men (1997)
1998	Golden Seashell	San Sebastián International Film Festival	Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
1997	Grand Special Prize	Deauville Film Festival	In the Company of Men (1997)
1997	Grand Jury Prize	Sundance Film Festival	Dramatic	In the Company of Men (1997)
1997	Golden Alexander	Thessaloniki Film Festival	In the Company of Men (1997)

Known for movies

In the Company of Men (1997)
as Writer

The Shape of Things (2003)
as Writer

The Wicker Man (2006)
as Writer

Possession (2002)
as Writer