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Beastie-Boy-Adam-Yauch.png Beastie Boys co-founder Adam Yauch has died of cancer at age 47. Yauch is best known for his music career, as the New York hip-hop trio's vocalist and bassist, MCA. But in the last years of his life, Yauch focused his artistic attention on the world of ... Share |

BEASTIE BOY ADAM YAUCH

Posted byo Eiz n Saturday, 05 May, 2012, 11:32 AM

Musician/director Adam Yauch from the band Beastie Boys of the film 'Awesome: I F*ckin' Shot That!' poses for a portrait at the Getty Images Portrait Studio during the 2006 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2006 in Park City, Utah. (Mark Mainz/Getty Images / May 4, 2012)

Ads by Google2:58 p.m. CDT, May 4, 2 0 1 2 B e a s t i e B o y s c o-founder Adam Yauch has died of cancer at age 47. Yauch is best known for his music career, as the N e w Y o r k h i p-hop trio's vocalist and bassist, MCA. But in the last years of his life, Yauch focused his artistic attention on the world of film, as co-founder of Oscilloscope Pictures.

In 2008, Yauch founded Oscilloscope with ThinkFilm Vice President David Fenkel, and the company quickly made its mark by snatching up unusual festival titles such as the Oscarnominated 2009 Woody Harrelson drama "The Messenger," the 2010 Michelle Williams Oregon trail yarn "Meek's Cutoff" and the 2011 Tilda Swinton maternal horror story"We Need to Talk About Kevin."

Yauch also directed many Beastie Boys videos and a 2006 concert film, "Awesome I ... Shot That" under the pseudonym Nathaniel Hornblower; the movie played at the Sundance Film Festival. He helmed a 2008 documentary, "Gunnin' for That #1 Spot," about a group of top high school basketball players.

In a 2008 interview with the L.A. Times, Yauch recalled the idea for the basketball film came to him as he was sitting on the sideline of a pickup basketball game with a friend, Kris Stone.

"He started telling me about this all-star high school basketball game he was organizing. He then asked about how to document it, so I started throwing out suggestions. And I guess between his enthusiasm and me thinking about my own ideas, I thought, 'I want to do it.' "

"Gunnin'," which was favorably compared to the 1994 documentary"Hoop Dreams,"followed eight of the country's best high school players as they prepared to compete with 16 other top-ranked