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Michael Almereyda

American film director and screenwriter

Summary

American film director and screenwriter

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nameMichael Almereyda
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birth_placeOverland Park, Kansas, U.S.
yearsactive1985–present
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  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • producer}} Michael Almereyda (born April 7, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He studied art history at Harvard University but dropped out after three years to pursue filmmaking. He acquired a Hollywood agent on the strength of a spec script about Nikola Tesla. His film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project.

In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award. His film Marjorie Prime (2017), a philosophical science-fiction film based on Jordan Harrison's play of the same name, was screened at Sundance Film Festival and won the Sloan Feature Film Prize.

Personal life

Almereyda was born in Kansas, and, when he was a child, his family moved to Orange County, California, where he befriended the film critic Manny Farber, who became an important influence on his life. He now lives in New York City. His younger sister is the actress, comedian, and writer Spencer Kayden, and he also has two other brothers.

Partial filmography

  • A Hero of Our Time (1985)
  • Twister (1989)
  • Another Girl Another Planet (1992)
  • Nadja (1994)
  • At Sundance (1995)
  • The Rocking Horse Winner (1997)
  • The Eternal (1998)
  • Hamlet (2000)
  • Happy Here and Now (2002)
  • This So-Called Disaster (2004)
  • William Eggleston in the Real World (2005)
  • New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008)
  • Big River Blues (2008)
  • Tonight at Noon (2009)
  • Paradise (2009)
  • The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes (2011)
  • The Ogre's Feathers (2012)
  • Skinningrove (2013)
  • Cymbeline (2014)
  • Experimenter (2015)
  • Marjorie Prime (2017)
  • Escapes (2017)
  • The Lonedale Operator (2018)
  • Tesla (2020)

Recognition and awards

References

References

  1. Leland, Erin. (March 25, 2020). "Binge Watch This: Director Michael Almereyda is the Avant-Garde Historian and Storyteller We Need".
  2. "[http://filmmakermagazine.com/2046-gotham-awards-nominations-announced/#.U-TyDGOsk6M Gotham Awards Nominations Announced] {{webarchive. link. (2014-03-14 ", [[Filmmaker (magazine)]]. Accessed 8 August 2014.)
  3. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814034504/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/10/26/brokeback-capote-get-gotham-award-nods/ 'Brokeback,' 'Capote' Get Gotham Award Nods]", [[Fox News Channel]]. Accessed 8 August 2014.
  4. "Creative Capital – Investing in Artists who Shape the Future".
  5. "Sloan Science & Film".
  6. https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4764-the-music-of-memory-a-conversation-with-michael-almereyda
  7. https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/scientific-cinema-michael-almereyda-on-marjorie-prime
  8. https://theplaylist.net/michael-almereyda-talks-marjorie-prime-20170822/
  9. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/theater/theater-urinetown-uptown-her-moment-has-come.html
  10. https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-lonedale-operator
  11. Georg Szalai. (15 July 2025). "Locarno Film Festival Adds Carlos Reygadas, Joslyn Barnes to Rithy Panh-Led Main Jury".
  12. Debruge, Peter. "Sundance: Winners Announced (Awards Ceremony in Progress)". Variety.
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