Lana and Lilly Wachowski are American film and television directors, writers and producers. The sisters are both trans women. They made their directing debut in 1996 with Bound. They achieved fame with their second film The Matrix, a major box office success for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director.
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Lana and Lilly Wachowski are American film and television directors, writers and producers. The sisters are both trans women. They have worked as a writing and directing team through most of their professional film careers. They made their directing debut in 1996 with Bound. They achieved fame with their second film The Matrix, a major box office success for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director. They wrote and directed its two sequels: The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Their film Jupiter Ascending and the Netflix series Sense8, which they co-created with J. Michael Straczynski, both debuted in 2015. The second season of Sense8 ended the series in 2018 and was Lana’s first major creative undertaking without Lilly. The Wachowskis have been working separately on different projects: Lilly is writing and executive-producing Showtime’s Work in Progress with creators Abby McEnany and Tim Mason. Lana is filming a fourth Matrix film planned for 2021, which she wrote with David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon. Their uncle is the actor and Primetime Emmy Award-winning producer Laurence Luckinbill. They also have two other sisters: Julie and Laura. Julie was credited as assistant coordinator in the film Bound; she is a novelist and screenwriter. They went into film writing in the mid-1990s, including the script for Assassins in 1994, which was directed by Richard Donner and released in 1995. They say the experience gave them the perspective that they should become directors or “never survive as writers in this town\”.
They say they were inspired by the success of The Matrix, which came to be a major influence in science fiction films and has appeared in several lists of the world’s greatest films. The film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being historically significant. It won four Academy Awards, including Best Visual Effects for the bullet bullet effect. The movie stars Keanu Reeves as Neo, a hacker recruited by a rebellion to aid them in the fight against machines who have taken over the world and placed humanity inside a simulated reality called \”the Matrix\”. Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving and Joe Pantoliano also star. It was critical and commercial hit for four years, including at the box office and at the Warner Bros. box office. It became a major hit, although not on the same level of the original film. The Matrix is now a major film series, with several back-to-back sequels, both released in 2003 and 2004. It has appeared on several top ten science fiction lists and in several best-seller lists, including “greatest films of all time” and “The Godfather: Part II” The movie was released in 2012 and won four Oscars, including best director for Lana Wachowki and best cinematography for her work on Cloud Atlas. It also won a BAFTA Award for best animated film.
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