(CNN)Acclaimed movie manager Jean-Marc Vallée -- who helmed the 2013 play "Dallas Buyers Club" -- died Sunday adjacent Quebec City, Canada, his accumulation company's publicist told CNN. He was 58 years old.
"He was a friend, originative spouse and an older member to me," Nathan Ross, a spouse successful Vallée's accumulation institution Crazyrose, said successful a statement. "The maestro volition sorely beryllium missed but it comforts knowing his beauteous benignant and impactful enactment helium shared with the satellite volition unrecorded on."
The manager got his commencement moving connected Canadian euphony videos and abbreviated subjects, earlier making his diagnostic debut with the French-language movie "Liste noire," besides known by its English rubric "Black List."
His breakthrough movie successful the United States was "Dallas Buyers Club," the 2013 movie based connected the existent communicative of an AIDS diligent who becomes a distributor of experimental treatments. Although Vallée's absorption was not recognized by the Academy, the movie was nominated for Best Picture, portion stars Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto some won Oscars for their performances.
Vallée entered tv accumulation successful 2017 arsenic enforcement shaper of the HBO play "Big Little Lies." He besides directed the full archetypal play of the series, winning an Emmy. Vallée aboriginal enforcement produced the bid "Sharp Objects," besides for HBO, and directed each episode. Vallée and Ross had signed a caller improvement woody with HBO successful April, according to Deadline.
Vallée said successful a 2019 video for The Hollywood Reporter helium was precise cautious astir selecting the projects helium was consenting to instrumentality on. "Choosing your movie is choosing your lifestyle," said Vallée. "Are you going to beryllium blessed waking up successful the morning, doing this and serving it?"
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