Adam Somner, the longtime assistant director who labored with a few of Hollywood’s most celebrated filmmakers, has handed away on the age of 57.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a household spokesperson, introduced that Somner died on Wednesday, November 27, after a battle with anaplastic thyroid most cancers.
Throughout his distinguished profession, Somner collaborated with administrators, together with Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg.
Most just lately, the Oscar-nominated assistant director was concerned in an untitled venture for Warner Bros. with Anderson, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
He beforehand collaborated with Anderson on Inherent Vice, Licorice Pizza, Phantom Thread, The Master, and There Will Be Blood.
Somner additionally made important contributions to the work of Spielberg, together with Bridge of Spies, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Lincoln, Munich, Ready Player One, and West Side Story.
With Scorsese, he labored on Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wolf of Wall Street.
In addition, Somner partnered with Ridley Scott on All the Money within the World, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Gladiator, Hannibal, and G.I. Jane.
Meanwhile, his collaborations with Iñárritu embrace The Revenant and Birdman.
The late producer earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on Licorice Pizza (2021) and acquired a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film for The Revenant (2015).
Somner is survived by his spouse, Carmen Ruiz de Huidobro; their youngsters, Olivia and Bosco; and his brother, Mark Somner.
