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Michael Almereyda is an American film director and screenwriter. He was born on April 7, 1959 in Overland Park, Kansas, United States. He is 61 years old as of 2020. Almereyda attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied film and literature. He then moved to New York City, where he worked as a film critic for the Village Voice and other publications. Almereyda has directed several feature films, including Nadja (1994), Hamlet (2000), and Experimenter (2015). He has also written and directed several short films, including Twister (1988) and The Rocking Horse Winner (1989). Almereyda has won several awards for his work, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for his film Nadja. He has also been nominated for several awards, including the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director for his film Hamlet. As of 2020, Michael Almereyda's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.

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Occupation Film director,screenwriter,producer
Age 65 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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2015

In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award.

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.

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). Marjorie Prime (2017) won the Sloan Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

2002

Almereyda directed features set in pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans: Happy Here and Now (2002) and New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008). In 2004, he directed an episode of the HBO series Deadwood, His most recent work has mainly involved documentaries and shorts.

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).

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.

1994

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

1989

Almereyda's films range across many genres, styles, and formats. His first feature, Twister (1989), based on Mary Robison’s novel Oh, was a comedy about a dysfunctional mid-Western family. Another Girl Another Planet (1992) was a romantic chamber piece, a black-and-white, one-hour featurette shot with a Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera.

1985

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

1960

Michael Almereyda (born April 7, 1960 in Overland Park, Kansas) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His best known work is Hamlet (2000), starring Ethan Hawke.