Scott Cooper

What I admire about Scott Cooper is his refusal to chase spectacle. From the moment Crazy Heart earned him the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, he staked out a quieter, harder territory: weathered men, guilt, and the slow cost of violence. Films like Black Mass and Hostiles share a brooding moral weight that feels increasingly rare in American cinema. He came up acting in small-town Virginia before stepping behind the camera, and that grounding shows. He is the kind of unflashy craftsman whose name I trust on a poster, and I am curious where the Springsteen project takes him.

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Name (English)

Scott Cooper

Name (Japanese)

スコット・クーパー

Reading

すこっと・くーぱー

Born

1970

Origin

Abingdon, Virginia, United States

Occupation

film director / film producer / actor / screenwriter / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Dog

High school

Abingdon High School

University

Hampden–Sydney College

Awards & achievements

• 2010 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature
• 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Cooper%20(director)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%20(%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E7%9B%A3%E7%9D%A3)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1750712

Tags

• Virginia
• film director
• film producer
• actor

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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