TOM DICILLO (August 14, 1953, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina - )After attending NYU Film School, Tom got his feet wet as an actor and cinematographer in films such as Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise, before directing his first feature film, Johnny Suede (1991). Remembered now primarily as a footnote in the future career of the then unknown star, Brad Pitt, it didn't catch on with either audiences or critics.
The pain of making the film, however, led to DiCillo's best remembered and most acclaimed work, Living In Oblivion (1995). The indie comedy of a director (Steve Buscemi) struggling to hold his low budget movie together starts out in a fairly straightforward manner, but soon descends into chaos, and you're never really sure which events are actually happening. Oblivion wasn't a huge hit, but it turned a profit, and this time was much more widely acclaimed.
Riding off of that success, his next film produced was Box Of Moonlight (1996). Despite strong performances from John Turturro and newcomer Sam Rockwell, it didn't make much of an impact. Since that time, his films have essentially gone straight to video, or been in very limited release. One recent success that he's had is the documentary When You're Strange (2010), about the history of the band The Doors. Narrated by Johnny Depp, the film has earned nominations for both Emmy's and Grammy's.
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