Actor, writer, and director Paul Schneider has long been a devotee of the Criterion Collection. His credits include films by Zhang Yimou, Warren Beatty, Christophe Honoré, Sam Mendes, and Woody Allen. Schneider won a best supporting actor award from the National Society of Film Critics for his role in Jane Campion’s Bright Star (2009) and in 2014 was the first American to win the Tribeca Film Festival’s best actor award, for Angus MacLachlan’s Goodbye to All That. His directorial debut, Pretty Bird, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.
Biography via Criterion.
