Jean-Marc Vallée, Director of ‘Dallas Buyers Club,' ‘Big Little Lies,' Dead at 58

Director and shaper Jean-Marc Vallée, who won an Emmy for directing the deed HBO bid “Big Little Lies” and whose 2013 play “Dallas Buyers Club” earned aggregate Oscar nominations, has died. He was 58.

His typical Bumble Ward said Sunday that Vallée died abruptly successful his compartment extracurricular Quebec City, Canada, implicit the weekend.

Vallée was acclaimed for his naturalistic attack to filmmaking, directing stars including Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal implicit the past decade.

He directed Emily Blunt successful 2009's “The Young Victoria” and became a sought-after sanction successful Hollywood aft “Dallas Buyers Club,” featuring Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto, earned six Academy Awards nominations, including champion picture.

He often changeable with earthy airy and hand-held cameras and gave actors state to improvise the publication and determination astir wrong a scene’s location. The unit roamed up and down the Pacific Coast Trail to sprout Witherspoon successful 2014's “Wild."

“They tin determination anyplace they want,” the Canadian filmmaker said of his actors successful a 2014 interrogation with The Associated Press. “It’s giving the value to storytelling, emotion, characters. I effort not to interfere excessively much. I don’t request to chopped performances. Often, the cinematographer and I were like, ‘This determination sucks. It’s not precise nice. But, hey, that’s life.’”

He re-teamed with Witherspoon to nonstop the archetypal play of “Big Little Lies” successful 2017 and directed Adams successful 2018's “Sharp Objects,” besides for HBO. Vallée won DGA awards for both.

"Jean-Marc stood for creativity, authenticity and trying things differently," producing spouse Nathan Ross said successful a connection to NBC News. "He was a existent creator and a generous, loving guy. Everyone who worked with him couldn’t assistance but spot the endowment and imaginativeness helium possessed."

Vallée is survived by his sons, Alex and Émile, and siblings Marie-Josée Vallée, Stéphane Tousignant and Gérald Vallée.

AP Film Writer Jake Coyle contributed to this report.