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Kristie Macosko. Occupation. Film producer. Years active. 1998–present. Kristie Macosko Krieger (born in 1970) is an American film producer, best known for her work alongside director Steven Spielberg. [1] She worked as his assistant (or "associate") starting with the 1998 documentary film The Last Days, and then on his own films from 2001's ...
- 1970 (age 52–53), U.S.
- Film producer
- American
- 1998–present
In March 2021, Spielberg was announced to direct the film, with his involvement as co-screenwriter marking his first writing venture on a film since A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001); it was also reported that Kristie Macosko Krieger would produce the film with Kushner and Spielberg.
- Janusz Kamiński
- Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
- Plot
- Production
- Soundtrack
- Release
- Reception
In 1987, Leonard Bernstein, at the age of nearly 70, plays a sequence on a piano from his opera A Quiet Place while being interviewed in his home. After he finishes, he shares brief details regarding the significant impact left on him by Felicia, his wife of many years, and mentions seeing her ghost. In 1943, Leonard—then the 25-year-old assistant ...
Development
In 2008, producers Fred Berner and Amy Durning[de] approached the Bernstein family to negotiate Leonard Bernstein's life and music rights. Once retaining rights, Berner and Durning approached Josh Singer to develop and write a screenplay and attached Martin Scorsese as a director. The project went into development at Paramount Pictures. In 2017, Scorsese stepped down as director to work on The Irishman. Briefly, Steven Spielberg considered directing the film and approached Bradley Cooper to s...
Casting
In September 2020, the project was given the title Maestro with Carey Mulligan joining the cast. It was also announced that filming would begin in the spring of 2021. In October, Jeremy Strong joined the cast as John Gruen, but later dropped out due to scheduling conflicts; Josh Hamilton was cast in his place. In March 2022, Matt Bomer joined the cast. Bomer would be confirmed in April, with Maya Hawke also announced as being cast. In June, Sarah Silverman was announced as playing Bernstein's...
Filming
Filming was initially expected to begin on April 5, 2021, in Los Angeles; but instead began in May 2022. Production occurred at Tanglewood between May 21 and 26, Fairfield, Connecticut at Bernstein’s home, and in New York City. Filming also took place at Ely Cathedralin England between October 20 and 22.
Maestro features Bernstein compositions that were handpicked by Cooper. Those pieces were performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with a few choral performances by the London Symphony Chorus, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin who also served as Cooper's conducting coach. The soundtrack was preceded with an excerpt from the finale of Mahler's Sym...
Maestro premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2023, where it was nominated for the Golden Lion. It received a gala screening as part of the New York Film Festival's spotlight program on October 2, 2023, making it the first film to hold a premiere at the new David Geffen Hall. Cooper attended the event but did not ...
Box office
Although Netflix does not publicly report box office grosses, IndieWire estimated the film made about $200,000 from eight theaters in its opening weekend (and a total of $300,000 over the five-day Thanksgivingframe), which would make it the most successful debut for the company since at least 2019.
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 79% of 324 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Led by a pair of powerful performances, Maestro serves as a stirring overview of a tremendous talent's life and legacy." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 77 out of 100, based on 62 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. The performances and Cooper's direction received praise, with BBC Cu...
Use of prosthetic
Cooper's use of a large prosthetic nose to portray Bernstein, who was Jewish, was criticized by some as an example of "Jewface", following the release of photographs from the set of the film in May 2023 and the subsequent release of the trailer in August. The chief television critic of The Hollywood Reporter, Daniel Fienberg, criticized the casting of Cooper in a Twitter post, along with the British gentile Mulligan as a Costa Rican-Chilean converted Jew, as "a LOT of ethnic cosplay for one m...
- Bradley Cooper
- Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper
Mar 21, 2022 · Kristie Macosko Krieger has worked with Steven Spielberg since 1997, starting as his first assistant, having come from the Shoah Foundation, Spielberg’s nonprofit dedicated to interviewing...
- Hilton Dresden
Aug 30, 2023 · Bradley Cooper And The Long Road To Bringing Leonard Bernstein To Cinematic Life In ‘Maestro’ – Venice Q&A With Producer Kristie Macosko Krieger. By Pete Hammond. August 30, 2023 10:00am....
screenwriter Josh Singer and Macosko Krieger his take on A Star Is Born before hardly anybody else had seen it. “Within the first 20 minutes, Steven leaned over to Bradley and told him the job was his,” recalls Macosko Krieger. “Kristie has been a very hands-on producer,” says Cooper. “During prepro-duction, we worked together daily as it
Feb 24, 2016 · For UC Davis alum Kristie Macosko Krieger, taking home an Academy Award for best picture would be a crowning moment in a career that has only gone up: She began working in the film industry as an assistant to director Steven Spielberg and now has produced four of his movies.
