2024Nominee
Best Performance
A Different Man
Owen Kline
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
New York City, New York, USA
October 14, 1991
Biography
Owen Kline is an American director, screenwriter and actor based in New York City. His short Jazzy for Joe starred the late broadcasting legend Joe Franklin in a rare comic performance paired alongside an orphaned toddler. His prior short, Fowl Play, a Queens-based comedy about low-rent aspiring cockfighters and their chicken, was presented on Le Cinéma Club in 2017 as part of the Safdie brothers’ carte blanche. Kline’s acting credits include Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale, the Safdies’ John’s Gone and the Michael M. Bilandic comedies Hellaware and Jobe’z World. Kline wrote and directed Funny Pages, his feature debut.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2005Nominee
Best Performance
The Squid and the Whale
2022Nominee
Best Performance
Funny Pages
Career Highlights
2013Highlight
Best Director
Fowl Play
2017Highlight
Best Performance
Meet the Filmmakers: Josh and Benny Safdie
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A Different Man
The Squid and the Whale
Funny Pages