Michael Almereyda
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image 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.[1] His film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project.[2][3]
In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award.[4] 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.[5]
Partial filmography
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- Fleeting Joy A website devoted to Almereyda's work.
- Michael Almereyda by Jeremiah Kipp, Senses of Cinema website
- King of Infinite Space, Filmmaker Magazine, Winter 1999
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- ↑ a b "'Brokeback,' 'Capote' Get Gotham Award Nods", Fox News Channel. Accessed 8 August 2014.
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American screenwriters
- Alfred P. Sloan Prize winners
- American male screenwriters
- English-language film directors
- Film directors from Kansas
- Harvard College alumni
- People from Overland Park, Kansas
- Screenwriters from Kansas
- Shakespearean directors