James Ivory (director)

James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928 in Berkeley, California) is an award-winning American film director. He was educated at the University of Oregon, majoring in Architecture and Fine Arts and then at the University of Southern California Film School. His first film, which he wrote, photographed and produced, was Venice: Theme and Variations, a half-hour documentary submitted as a thesis film for his degree in cinema at USC. The film was named by The New York Times in 1957 as one of the ten best non-theatrical films of the year.

Accolades

In 1985 A Room With a View, based on the E. M. Forster novel, was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, for Jhabvala?s adaptation of Forster?s novel as well as for Best Costume and Best Production Design. A Room With a View was also voted Best Film of of the year by the Critic?s Circle Film Section of Great Britain, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the National Board of Review in the United States and in Italy, where the film won the Donatello Prize for Best Foreign Language Picture and Best Director. In 1987, Maurice received a Silver Lion Award for Best director at the Venice Film Festival as well as Best Film Score for Richard Robbins and Best Actor Awards for co-stars James Wilby and Hugh Grant.

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1985 - E. M. Forster - Academy Awards - A Room With a View - Critic?s Circle Film Section of Great Britain - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - National Board of Review - Donatello Prize - 1987 - Maurice - Venice Film Festival - Richard Robbins - James Wilby - Hugh Grant

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This was followed in 1990 by Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, which was adapted by Ruth Jhabvala from the novels by Evan S. Connell. This film received an Oscar nomination for best Actress (Joanne Woodward), as well as Best Actress and Best Screenplay from the New York Film Critics Circle.

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1990 - Mr. and Mrs. Bridge - Evan S. Connell - Joanne Woodward - New York Film Critics Circle

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In 1992 Ivory directed another Forster-adapted film, Howards End. The film was nominated for nine Academy awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three: Best Actress (Emma Thompson), Best Screenplay - Adaptation (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala), and Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Luciana Arrighi/Ian Whittaker). The film also won Best Picture at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards, as well as awards for Best Picture, Best Actress for Emma Thompson and Best Director for Ivory from the National Board of Review. The Directors Guild of America awarded the D.W. Griffith award, its highest honor, to Ivory for his work.

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1992 - Howards End - Emma Thompson - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - National Board of Review - Directors Guild of America - D.W. Griffith

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