James Ivory

Known for directing · Born 7 June 1928 · 98 · Berkeley, California, USA

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James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards. Ivory has been nominated three times for the Best Director Oscar, and won his first Academy Award at the age of 89 in 2018, Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me by Your Name. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Ivory, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Call Me by Your Name

2017

The Remains of the Day

1993

A Room with a View

1986

Maurice

1987

Howards End

1992

Le Divorce

2003

Surviving Picasso

1996

The White Countess

2005

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

1990

Lumière & Company

1995

The Golden Bowl

2000

The City of Your Final Destination

2009

Acting (19)

2024Merchant IvorySelfFilm

2022Only in TheatersSelfFilm

2022A Cooler ClimateSelf - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)Film

2021Hannibal Hopkins & Sir AnthonySelf (archive footage)Film

2020Leçon de cinéma avec James IvorySelf - Director, subjectFilm

2019E. M. Forster: His Longest JourneySelfFilm

2019Rich Atmosphere: The Music of Merchant Ivory FilmsHimself - NarratorFilm

2006Zefirino: The Voice of a CastratoFilm

2005A Tribute To Ismail MerchantSelf (archive footage)Film

2004Leçon de CinémaSelfSeries

2001Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal FlawSelfFilm

2001Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'SelfFilm

2001The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's JourneySelfFilm

1984The Wandering CompanySelfFilm

1953The OscarsSelfSeries

—James Ivory Remembers Ismail MerchantHimselfFilm

—Brutta FiguraJamesFilm

—Ink & IvorySelfFilm

—James Ivory: In Search of Love and BeautySelfFilm

Costume & Make-Up (1)

2006Zefirino: The Voice of a CastratoCostume DesignFilm

Crew (1)

1997Mrs. DallowayThanksFilm

Directing (34)

2022A Cooler ClimateDirector, Writer, Director of PhotographyFilm

2009The City of Your Final DestinationDirectorFilm

2005The White CountessDirectorFilm

2003Le DivorceDirector, WriterFilm

2000The Golden BowlDirectorFilm

1996Surviving PicassoDirectorFilm

1995Lumière & CompanyDirectorFilm

1995Jefferson in ParisDirectorFilm

1993The Remains of the DayDirectorFilm

1992Howards EndDirectorFilm

1990Mr. & Mrs. BridgeDirectorFilm

1989Slaves of New YorkDirectorFilm

1987MauriceDirector, ScreenplayFilm

1986A Room with a ViewDirectorFilm

1984The BostoniansDirectorFilm

1983Heat and DustDirectorFilm

1982American PlayhouseDirectorSeries

1981QuartetDirector, ScreenplayFilm

1980Jane Austen in ManhattanDirectorFilm

1979The EuropeansDirectorFilm

1979The Five Forty-EightDirectorFilm

1978Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's PicturesDirectorFilm

1977RoselandDirectorFilm

1975The Wild PartyDirectorFilm

1975Autobiography of a PrincessDirectorFilm

1972SavagesDirector, IdeaFilm

1972Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of CivilizationDirector, WriterFilm

1970Bombay TalkieDirector, ScreenplayFilm

1969The GuruDirector, WriterFilm

1965Shakespeare-WallahDirector, WriterFilm

1964The Delhi WayDirector, Editor, Producer, Writer, Director of PhotographyFilm

1959The Sword and the FluteDirector, Producer, Writer, EditorFilm

1957Venice: Theme and VariationsDirector, Cinematography, Writer, ProducerFilm

—Richard IIDirectorFilm

Production (9)

2026Her SongExecutive ProducerFilm

2024Merchant IvoryExecutive ProducerFilm

2023The Way It Was: Paris Restaurants in the 1970sExecutive ProducerFilm

2022Chinese LaundryProducerFilm

2019The Aspern PapersExecutive ProducerFilm

2010Arcadia LostCo-ProducerFilm

1985Noon WineExecutive ProducerFilm

—AndorraExecutive ProducerFilm

—Roselli’s WayExecutive ProducerFilm

Writing (9)

2018American MarriageCo-Writer, Executive ProducerFilm

2017Call Me by Your NameScreenplay, ProducerFilm

1998A Soldier's Daughter Never CriesScreenplay, DirectorFilm

1983The Courtesans of BombayWriterFilm

1973Helen, Queen of the Nautch GirlsWriterFilm

1973William: The Life, Works and Times of William ShakespeareTeleplayFilm

1972ABC Afterschool SpecialTeleplaySeries

1963The HouseholderWriter, DirectorFilm

—Brutta FiguraWriterFilm