Forbes magazine has released its list of young movers and shakers in Hollywood and the entertainment world, and Quebec’s whiz-kid director is on it.
The American publication puts Dolan, who is 22, in good company with Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson, 22, comedian-writer Rachel Bloom, 28, and comedian-writer Jarrod Carmichael, 28, among others.
Forbes isn’t looking just at Hollywood. The list is one of a rather large handful of 30-under-30 lists that the magazine puts together for up-and-comers in sectors as wide-ranging as finance, consumer tech, sports, art and style, retail, education, music, science and more.
See all the lists here.
For the Hollywood list, the magazine holds up Xavier Dolan’s drive as a defining factor, and talks about his early days: “I started directing movies at 19, to cast myself in a part because I was unemployed as an actor,” Dolan remembered. His 2014 film, Mommy, won the Jury Prize at Cannes, but it was his 2015 video for Adele’s Hello, which brought him to mainstream attention: The clip earned a record-breaking 27.7 million views in a day.
“Despite their disparate paths, this year’s 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment members are the industry’s new powerhouses,” the magazine says.
Dolan has been getting a lot of congratulatory tweets since the news, but he has been tweeting about something else since yesterday: He tore into Netflix in the U.K. after he found out it had aired Mommy with an altered aspect ratio.
Dolan said that had “shut down the emotional capacity of that scene.”
A Twitter response from a Netflix account representing the U.K. and Ireland thanked Dolan for alerting them.
