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Michael Almereyda was born on 7 April, 1959 in Overland Park, Kansas, U.S., is an American film director and screenwriter. Discover Michael Almereyda's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Occupation Film director screenwriter producer
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 7 April 1959
Birthday 7 April
Birthplace Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1959

Michael Almereyda (born April 7, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer.

Almereyda studied art history at Harvard 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 first film as writer/director was a self-financed, black-and-white short featuring Dennis Hopper, A Hero of Our Time, based on Mikhail Lermontov's novel of the same title.

1985

Shot in 1985, it was finished in 1987 and screened in the 1992 Sundance Film Festival.

1989

His first feature, Twister (1989), based on Mary Robison’s novel Oh, was a comedy about a dysfunctional mid-Western family.

1992

Another Girl Another Planet (1992) was a romantic chamber piece, a black-and-white, one-hour featurette shot with a Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera.

1994

Nadja (1994) was a comic vampire film shot on 35mm with Pixelvision inserts.

2000

Early screenplays include Cherry 2000 (1987), the first draft for Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World (1991), and uncredited work on Total Recall (1990).

Almereyda's films range across many genres, styles, and formats.

Hamlet (2000) was shot on Super 16mm and featured Ethan Hawke, Bill Murray, Kyle MacLachlan, Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber and Sam Shepard.

The adaptation layered a contemporary New York setting on Shakespeare's text.

2002

Almereyda directed features set in pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans: Happy Here and Now (2002) and New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008).

2004

In 2004, he directed an episode of the HBO series Deadwood, His most recent work has mainly involved documentaries and shorts.

2005

William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project, as was the sketchbook film Paradise (2009).

2008

Almereyda edited and contributed texts for Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and About Mayakovsky, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008, and William Eggleston: For Now, published by Twin Palms in 2010.

He has written criticism and commentary for The New York Times, Film Comment, Artforum, Bookforum, The Believer, and Triple Canopy.

2013

He has recently returned to fiction film with a 2013 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, a spiritual successor to his earlier Hamlet.

2015

Experimenter (2015), was based on the life of Stanley Milgram, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and received critical acclaim.

In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award.

Almereyda frequently uses the same actors.

He has worked more than once with Suzy Amis, Karl Geary, Jared Harris, Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Isabelle Gillies, John Leguizamo, Lois Smith, Hannah Gross, and Jim Gaffigan.

2017

Marjorie Prime (2017), a philosophical science-fiction film based on Jordan Harrison's play of the same name, again screened at Sundance and won the Sloan Feature Film Prize.

2020

Most recently, he has directed a documentary on Hampton Fancher and adapted his Tesla spec script into a 2020 film of the same name.