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{{Short description|British filmmaker (born 1933)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = John Boorman
| honorific_prefix   = [[Sir]]
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|CBE}}
| image              = Master Class John Boorman Paris novembre 2014 - 25.jpg 
| caption            = Boorman in Paris in November 2014
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1933|01|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Shepperton]], [[Middlesex]], England
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{Marriage|Christel Kruse|1956|1990}}
* {{Marriage|Isabella Weibrecht|1995|end=div}}
}}
| occupation         = Film director, screenwriter, producer
| children           = 7 (1 deceased), including [[Charley Boorman]] and [[Katrine Boorman]]
| years_active       = 1962–present
}}
'''Sir John Boorman''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ʊər|m|ə|n}}; born 18 January 1933) is a British filmmaker. He is best known for directing feature films such as ''[[Point Blank (1967 film)|Point Blank]]'' (1967), ''[[Hell in the Pacific]]'' (1968), ''[[Deliverance]]'' (1972), ''[[Zardoz]]'' (1974), ''[[Exorcist II: The Heretic]]'' (1977), ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]'' (1981), ''[[The Emerald Forest]]'' (1985), ''[[Hope and Glory (film)|Hope and Glory]]'' (1987), ''[[The General (1998 film)|The General]]'' (1998), ''[[The Tailor of Panama (film)|The Tailor of Panama]]'' (2001) and ''[[Queen and Country (film)|Queen and Country]]'' (2014).

Boorman has directed 20 films and received five [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations, twice for [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] (for ''Deliverance'', and ''Hope and Glory''), two [[British Academy Film Award]] nominations and three [[Golden Globe Award]] nominations. He is also credited with creating the first Academy Award [[screener (promotional)|screener]]s to promote ''The Emerald Forest''.<ref name=LosAngelesTimes /> In 2004, Boorman received the [[BAFTA Fellowship]] for lifetime achievement from the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]]. In the [[2022 New Year Honours]], he received a [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]] from Queen [[Elizabeth II]] for services to film.

==Life and career==
===Early years and education===
Boorman was born in [[Shepperton]], [[Middlesex]], England, the son of pub landlord George Boorman and his wife, Ivy (née Chapman), daughter of another pub owner in the [[East End of London]]. George Boorman was of Dutch parentage; he served as a captain in the [[British Indian Army]] during World War I, and later worked for the founder of [[Shell plc|Shell Oil]]. Boorman's paternal grandfather, an inventor, "made and lost several fortunes during his lifetime".<ref>Current Biography, H. W. Wilson Co., 1989, p. 77</ref><ref>''World Film Directors'', vol. 2, ed. John Wakeman, H. W. Wilson, 1988, p. 141</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/46/John-Boorman.html|title=John Boorman Biography (1933–)|website=www.filmreference.com|access-date=1 October 2020}}</ref> Although not Roman Catholic, after failing the [[eleven-plus]] he was sent to be educated at the [[Salesian School (Chertsey)|Salesian School]] in [[Chertsey]], [[Surrey]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Lives in Writing|first=David|last=Lodge|publisher=Random House UK|year=2012 |page=69}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=World Film Directors 1945-1985|first1=John|last1=Wakeman |first2=H. W. |last2=Wilson|year=1987|page=141}}</ref>

===Career===
Boorman was conscripted for military service and became a clerical instructor in the [[British Army]]. He did not serve in the [[Korean War]],<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.btlnews.com/crafts/director-john-boorman-returns-to-his-youth-with-queen-and-country/ | title= Director John Boorman Returns to his Youth with Queen And Country | work=btlnews.com | first=Scott | last=Essman | date=2 March 2015 | access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> but once faced court-martial for "seducing a soldier from the course of his duty" by criticising the war to his trainees; this was abandoned when Boorman showed that ''[[The Times]]'' newspaper was the source of all his comments.<ref>{{cite book|first=David |last=Lodge |title=John Boorman's Quest' in ''Lives in Writing'' |publisher=Random House |year=2014}}</ref> After army service he worked as a [[drycleaner]] and journalist in the late 1950s. He ran the newsrooms at [[Southern Television]] in Southampton and Dover before moving into television documentary filmmaking, eventually becoming head of the [[BBC]]'s Bristol-based documentary unit.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1351339/index.html | title= Citizen 63 (1963) | work=screenonline.org.uk| first=Patrick | last=Russell | access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref> In 1963 he wrote and directed a documentary about professional football, ''Six Days to Saturday'', which focused on a week in the life of [[Swindon Town F.C.|Swindon Town]], a club in England's second division.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Six Days to Saturday |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cq550yvr8xro |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=BBC Archive |language=en}}</ref>
[[File:John Boorman (1974).jpg|thumb|Boorman in 1974]]
Having caught the attention of a producer, David Deutsch, Boorman was offered the chance to direct a film aimed at repeating the success of [[Richard Lester]]'s ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' (1964): ''[[Catch Us If You Can (film)|Catch Us If You Can]]'' (1965) is about another pop group, [[the Dave Clark Five]]. While it was not as successful commercially as Lester's film was, it drew good reviews from distinguished critics such as [[Pauline Kael]] and [[Dilys Powell]], and smoothed Boorman's way into the film industry.<ref name="three">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-moguls-nat-cohen-part-three-1962-68/|date=21 January 2025|access-date=21 January 2025|title=Forgotten British Moguls: Nat Cohen – Part Three (1962-68)}}</ref>

Boorman was drawn to Hollywood for the opportunity to make more ambitious films and in ''[[Point Blank (1967 film)|Point Blank]]'' (1967), based on a novel by Richard Stark (a pen name of [[Donald E. Westlake]]), he brought a stranger's vision to the decaying fortress of [[Alcatraz]] and the proto-[[hippy]] world of the West Coast of the United States. [[Lee Marvin]] gave the unknown director his full support, telling studio [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] that he deferred all his approvals on the project to Boorman. After ''Point Blank'', Boorman worked with Marvin and [[Toshiro Mifune]] on the [[robinsonade]] ''[[Hell in the Pacific]]'' (1968), which tells a fable of two representative soldiers stranded on an island.

After returning to the United Kingdom, Boorman made ''[[Leo the Last]]'' (1970), influenced by [[Federico Fellini]] and starring Fellini regular, [[Marcello Mastroianni]]. It won Boorman a Best Director award at the [[Cannes Film Festival]].

Boorman achieved much greater resonance with ''[[Deliverance]]'' (1972), adapted from a novel by [[James Dickey]]. It depicted the ordeal of four urban men, played by [[Jon Voight]], [[Burt Reynolds]], [[Ronny Cox]] and [[Ned Beatty]], who encounter danger from an unexpected quarter while whitewater-rafting through the [[Appalachian Mountains|Appalachian]] backwoods. The film became Boorman's first true box office success and earned him several award nominations.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Boorman planned to film ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and corresponded about his plans with the author, [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]. Ultimately the production proved too costly, though some elements and themes can be seen in ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]'' (1981). A wide variety of films followed. ''[[Zardoz]]'' (1974), starring [[Sean Connery]], is a post-apocalyptic science fiction piece, set in the 23rd century where society is divided into two worlds. According to the director's film commentary, the "Zardoz world" is on a collision course with an "effete" eternal society.

Boorman was selected as director for ''[[Exorcist II: The Heretic]]'' (1977), a move that surprised the industry given his dislike of the original film. Boorman declared, "Not only did I not want to do the original film, I told the head of Warner Brothers, John Calley, [that] I'd be happy if he didn't produce the film too".<ref name="Pallenberg">{{Cite book|edition = 1st|title = The Making of Exorcist II: The Heretic|publisher = Warner Books|date =18 August 1977|location = New York|isbn = 9780446893619|first = Barbara|last = Pallenberg}}</ref> The original script by a Broadway playwright, William Goodhart, was intellectual and ambitious, being concerned with the metaphysical nature of the battle between good and evil, and influenced by the writings of Catholic theologian [[Pierre Teilhard De Chardin]],<ref name="Pallenberg"/> <nowiki>"I found It extremely compelling. It was based on Chardin's intoxicating idea that biological evolution was the first step In God's plan, starting with inert rock, and culminating in humankind."</nowiki><ref>{{Cite book|edition = Main|title = Adventures of a Suburban Boy|url = https://archive.org/details/adventuresofsubu0000boor|publisher = Faber & Faber|date = 4 September 2003|location = London; New York|isbn = 9780571216956|first = John|last = Boorman|url-access = registration}}</ref> Despite Boorman's rewriting throughout shooting, the film was rendered incomprehensible. The film, released in June 1977, was a critical disaster but a moderate box office success. Boorman was denounced by [[William Peter Blatty]], the author of the original novel [[The Exorcist (novel)|''The Exorcist'']], and by [[William Friedkin]], director of the first ''Exorcist'' film. Boorman later admitted that his approach to the film was a mistake. ''The Heretic'' is often considered not just the worst film of [[The Exorcist (film series)|''The Exorcist'' series]] but one of [[List of films considered the worst|the worst films of all time]].
[[File:JohnBoorman 2006.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Boorman at the [[San Sebastián International Film Festival]] in September 2006]]
''Excalibur'', a long-held dream project of Boorman's, is a retelling of the [[Arthurian legend]], based on ''[[Le Morte D'Arthur]]''. Boorman cast [[Nicol Williamson]] and [[Helen Mirren]] over their protests, as the two disliked each other intensely but Boorman felt that their mutual antagonism would enhance their presentations of the characters they were playing. The production was based in Ireland, where Boorman had settled, and employed all of Boorman's children as actors and crew, a practice he repeated in later films. The film, one of the first to be produced by Orion Films, was a moderate success.

''[[The Emerald Forest (film)|The Emerald Forest]]'' (1985) saw Boorman cast his son [[Charley Boorman]] as an eco-warrior in a rainforest adventure that included commercially required elements – action and near-nudity – with authentic{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} anthropological detail. [[Rospo Pallenberg]]'s original screenplay was adapted into a book of the same name by author [[Robert Holdstock]]. Because the film's distributor faced business troubles that year, the film did not receive a traditional "For Your Consideration" advertising campaign for the [[58th Academy Awards|1985 Academy Awards]], despite positive critical reviews. Boorman took the initiative to promote the film himself by making [[VHS]] copies available for no charge to Academy members at several Los Angeles-area video rental stores. Boorman's idea later became ubiquitous during Hollywood's award season, and by the 2010s, more than a million Oscar [[screener (promotional)|screener]]s were mailed to Academy members each year. ''Emerald Forest'' received no nominations.<ref name=LosAngelesTimes>{{cite web |url=http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-oscar-screeners-20180301-story.html |title=The Oscar screener was invented by accident, and other secrets of an awards season staple |last=Miller |first=Daniel |date=1 March 2018 |website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=13 March 2018 |quote="The Emerald Forest" didn't get any Oscar nominations – but Boorman's gambit made an impact: He effectively invented the movie screener, now an integral part of Hollywood's awards season apparatus. }}</ref>

''[[Hope and Glory (film)|Hope and Glory]]'' (1987) was his most autobiographical movie, a retelling of his childhood in London during [[The Blitz]]. Produced by [[Goldcrest Films]], with Hollywood financing the film, it proved a box office hit in the US, receiving numerous [[Academy Award|Oscar]], [[BAFTA]] and [[Golden Globe]] nominations. His 1990 US-produced comedy about a dysfunctional family, ''[[Where the Heart Is (1990 film)|Where the Heart Is]]'', was a major flop.

When his friend [[David Lean]] died in 1991, Boorman was to take over direction of Lean's long-planned adaptation of ''[[Nostromo]]'', but the production collapsed. ''[[Beyond Rangoon]]'' (1995) and ''[[The Tailor of Panama (film)|The Tailor of Panama]]'' (2000) both explore unique worlds with alien characters stranded and desperate.
[[File:John Boorman Cannes 2014.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Boorman at the [[2014 Cannes Film Festival]]]]
Boorman won the [[Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Director Award]] at the [[1998 Cannes Film Festival]] for ''[[The General (1998 film)|The General]]'', his biopic of [[Martin Cahill]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4909/year/1998.html |title=Festival de Cannes: The General |access-date=2 October 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> The film is about a glamorous, yet mysterious, criminal in Dublin who was killed, apparently by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]]. Boorman had been one of Cahill's burglary victims, having the gold record awarded for the score to ''Deliverance'' stolen from his home.

Released in 2006, his ''[[The Tiger's Tail]]'' was a thriller set against the tableau of early 21st century capitalism in Ireland. At the same time, Boorman began work on a long-time pet project of his, a fictional account of the life of Roman Emperor Hadrian (entitled ''[[Memoirs of Hadrian]]''), written in the form of a letter from a dying Hadrian to his successor. In the meantime, a re-make/re-interpretation of the classic ''[[The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz]]'' with Boorman at the helm was announced in August 2009.<ref name="John Boorman - A very English visionary is back">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/john-boorman--a-very-english-visionary-is-back-1774989.html |title=John Boorman – A very English visionary is back |access-date=28 April 2010|work=Article in The Independent | location=London | date=21 August 2009}}</ref>

In 2007 and 2009 he took part in a series of events and discussions as part of the [[Arts in Marrakech Festival]] along with his daughter [[Katrine Boorman]] including an event with Kim Cattrall called 'Being Directed'. In November 2012 he was selected as a president of the main competition jury at the 2012 [[International Film Festival of Marrakech]].

In autumn 2013, Boorman began shooting ''[[Queen and Country (film)|Queen and Country]]'', the sequel to his 1987 Oscar-nominated ''[[Hope and Glory (film)|Hope and Glory]]'', using locations in [[Shepperton]] and [[Romania]]. The film was selected to be screened as part of the [[Directors' Fortnight]] section of the [[2014 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="Cannes2014">{{cite web |url=http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/cannes/cannes-directors-fortnight-2014-lineup-unveiled/5070844.article |title=Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2014 lineup unveiled |access-date=26 April 2014 |work=Screendaily}}</ref>

In 2016, his debut novel, ''Crime of Passion'', was published by [[Liberties Press]] of Dublin, with a French-language edition published by Marest in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marestediteur.com/produit/tapis-ecarlate/|title=Tapis écarlate|date=30 March 2020 |access-date=1 October 2020}}</ref>

In 2024, Boorman was revealed to be working on an animated project titled ''The Honey Wars'', with [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], [[Vanessa Kirby]], [[Patrick Stewart]], [[Brendan Gleeson]], [[Richard E. Grant]] and [[Jon Voight]] all eyed to star, and Kavaleer Productions producing the project.<ref name="Clarke">{{cite web |title=John Boorman Animation 'The Honey Wars' Attracts Sweet Voice Cast Of Jamie Lee Curtis, Vanessa Kirby, Patrick Stewart, Brendan Gleeson, Richard E. Grant & Jon Voight|url=https://deadline.com/2024/10/john-boorman-the-honey-wars-jamie-lee-curtis-vanessa-kirby-patrick-stewart-brendan-gleeson-richard-e-grant-jon-voight-1236109482/|first=Stewart|last=Clarke|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=October 8, 2024|access-date=February 17, 2025}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Boorman was a longtime resident of [[Ireland]] and lived in [[Annamoe]], [[County Wicklow]], close to the [[Glendalough]] twin lakes.<ref>{{cite book|last=Flynn |first=Arthur |title=The Story of Irish Film |publisher=Currach Press|year=2005|isbn=978-1-85607-914-3|page=131}}</ref> In 2022, he put his property up for sale, intending to move to Surrey, England, where his son Charley lived.<ref>{{Cite news |title=John Boorman's Wicklow home, where Sean Connery and Lee Marvin came for dinner, for sale after 50 years for €2.75m |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/property/residential/2022/09/15/john-boormans-wicklow-home-where-sean-connery-and-lee-marvin-came-for-dinner-for-sale-after-50-years-for-275m/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref> According to a 2012 interview, he was recently divorced.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|last=Adams|first=Mark|date=22 May 2012|title=Me And Me Dad|url=http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/me-and-me-dad/5042501.article|access-date=16 June 2015|publisher=Screendaily.com}}</ref> By 2020, he was married to his third wife.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Clarke|first=Donald|title=John Boorman: 'I have to take a measure of blame for Harvey Weinstein'|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/john-boorman-i-have-to-take-a-measure-of-blame-for-harvey-weinstein-1.4160234|access-date=21 August 2020|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref>

He has seven children: Katrine (b. 1958), Telsche (1959–1996), Charles (b. 1966), and Daisy (b. 1966) with his first wife, Christel Kruse, to whom he was married until 1990; and Lola, Lee, and Lily Mae with his second wife, Isabella Weibrecht, whom he married in 1995.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="belfasttelegraph">{{Cite news|title=Director John Boorman: A life of love, loss and film|language=en-GB|work=belfasttelegraph|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/director-john-boorman-a-life-of-love-loss-and-film-31312534.html|access-date=21 August 2020|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>

His son, [[Charley Boorman]], has a career as an actor but reached a wider audience when he and actor [[Ewan McGregor]] made [[Long Way Round|a televised motorbike trip]] across Europe, Central Asia, Siberia, Alaska, Canada, and the Midwest US during 2004. His daughter [[Katrine Boorman]] ([[Igrayne]] in ''Excalibur'') works as an actress in France. Another daughter, Telsche, co-wrote the screenplay for ''[[Where the Heart Is (1990 film)|Where the Heart Is]]'' with Boorman.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/58733 |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> She died of ovarian cancer in 1996 at the age of 36.<ref name="belfasttelegraph"/><ref name=":0" /> She had been married to the journalist Lionel Rotcage, the son of French singer [[Régine Zylberberg|Régine]], and they had a daughter together.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Obsèques Mort : Lionel ROTCAGE : avis de décès |url=https://www.avis-de-deces.com/deces-celebrites/1357/Lionel-Rotcage |access-date=2023-04-21|language=FR |website=www.avis-de-deces.com}}</ref><ref name="belfasttelegraph"/>

Boorman was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[1994 Birthday Honours]] for services to the film industry.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=10 June 1994 |supp=y |issue=53696 |page=9 }}</ref> In 2004, Boorman was also made a [[BAFTA Fellowship|Fellow]] of [[BAFTA]] and in 2013 he received a [[British Film Institute Fellowship|Fellowship]] from the [[British Film Institute]], an organisation he had previously served as a Governor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-04 |title=Full List of BAFTA Fellows |url=https://www.bafta.org/about/bafta-fellows |access-date=2024-07-13 |website=www.bafta.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-03-26 |title=John Boorman receives BFI Fellowship |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/john-boorman-receives-bfi-fellowship |access-date=2024-07-13 |website=BFI |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Boorman |first=John |date=Winter 1985–86 |title=Round up the usual suspects... |url=https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_Sound_1986_01_BFI_GB/page/n57/mode/2up |journal=[[Sight and Sound]] |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=56 |quote=National Heroes is serious, superbly written and insightful, and I will return to it after disposing of the other book I am required to consider, British Film Now, a collection of essays and sermons by no less than eleven authors, none of whom are identified as to their competence or authority. What they mostly have in common is a turgid prose style that, as a Governor of the BFI, I have come to recognise with sinking heart as the murky lingua franca of that otherwise noble body.}}</ref> Boorman was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2022 New Year Honours]] for services to film.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63571|supp=y|page=N2|date=1 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59780013 |title=New Year Honours 2022: Lumley and Redgrave become dames |date=31 December 2021|accessdate=3 January 2022|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/31/chris-whitty-knighted-as-covid-experts-feted-in-new-year-honours-list|title=New year honours feature Covid experts with Chris Whitty knighted|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=31 December 2021}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==
'''[[Academy Awards]]'''
* [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] (1973) (''[[Deliverance]]'') – Nominated
* [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] (1973) (''Deliverance'') – Nominated
* Best Picture (1988) (''[[Hope and Glory (film)|Hope and Glory]]'') – Nominated
* Best Director (1988) (''Hope and Glory'') – Nominated
* [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] (1988) (''Hope and Glory'') – Nominated
'''[[British Academy Film Awards]]'''
* [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]] (1988) (''Hope and Glory'') – Nominated
* [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] (1988) (''Hope and Glory'') – Nominated
* [[BAFTA Fellowship]] (2004) – Won
'''[[Cinema for Peace]]'''
* The Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Film of the Year (2004) (''In My Country'') – Won
'''[[Golden Globe Awards]]'''
* [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director]] (1973) (''Deliverance'') – Nominated
* Best Director (1988) (''Hope and Glory'') – Nominated
* [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] (1988) (''Hope and Glory'') – Nominated

==Works==
===Selected filmography===
'''Film'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! width=65|[[Film director|Director]]
! width=65|[[Film producer|Producer]]
! width=65|[[Screenwriter|Writer]]
|-
| 1965
| ''[[Catch Us If You Can (film)|Catch Us If You Can]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 1967
| ''[[Point Blank (1967 film)|Point Blank]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 1968
| ''[[Hell in the Pacific]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 1970
| ''[[Leo the Last]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 1972
| ''[[Deliverance]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 1974
| ''[[Zardoz]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 1977
| ''[[Exorcist II: The Heretic]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 1981
| ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 1985
| ''[[The Emerald Forest]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 1987
| ''[[Hope and Glory (film)|Hope and Glory]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 1990
| ''[[Where the Heart Is (1990 film)|Where the Heart Is]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Beyond Rangoon]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|-
|rowspan=2| 1998
| ''[[Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
|-
| ''[[The General (1998 film)|The General]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 2001
| ''[[The Tailor of Panama (film)|The Tailor of Panama]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 2004
| ''[[In My Country (2004 film)|In My Country]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gandhiserve.org/e/activities/events/2004/cfp/cfp.htm|title=GandhiServe Foundation – Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service|website=gandhiserve.org|access-date=1 October 2020}}</ref>
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 2006
| ''[[The Tiger's Tail]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Queen and Country (film)|Queen and Country]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| TBA
| ''The Honey Wars''<ref name="Clarke"></ref>
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
|}

'''Short film'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Producer
! Notes
|-
| 1991
| ''[[I Dreamt I Woke Up]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| Commissioned by the BBC for anthology series "The Director's Place"
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Two Nudes Bathing]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| Episode of ''[[Picture Windows]]''
|}

===Bibliography===
* Boorman, John, with Bill Stair (1974) [[Zardoz]] (novel)
* {{cite book|last=Boorman|first=John|title=Money into Light: The Emerald Forest: A Diary|url=https://archive.org/details/moneyintolight00john|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Faber and Faber|year=1985}}
* {{cite book|last=Boorman|first=John|chapter=Bright Dreams, Hard Knocks: A Journal for 1991|title=Projections: A Forum for Film Makers|url=https://archive.org/details/projectionsforum00boorrich|url-access=registration|location=London: Faber and Faber|year=1992|isbn=9780571168286}}
* {{cite book|first=John|last=Boorman|title=Adventures of a Suburban Boy|location=London|publisher=Faber and Faber|year=2003}}
* {{cite book|last=Boorman|first=John|title=Crime of Passion|publisher=Liberties Press|year=2016}}
* {{cite book |last1=Boorman |first1=John |title=Conclusions |date=2020 |publisher=Faber and Faber |location=London |isbn=978-0-5713-5379-8}}
* {{cite book |last1=Boorman |first1=John |title=John Boorman's Nature Diary One Eye, One Finger |date=2020 |publisher=Liliput Press |location=Dublin |isbn=978-1-8435-1795-5}}

==See also==
* [[List of British film directors]]
* [[List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book|author-link=Michel Ciment|last=Ciment|first=Michel|title=John Boorman|location=London|publisher=Faber and Faber|year=1986}}

==External links==
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