Alexander Payne
Directing
Born 1961-02-10
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
42 credits
Academy Awards 2
Golden Globe Awards 1
BAFTA Awards 1
Writers Guild of America 1
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 1
Awards
Won 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 won · 5 nominated
- 2014 Best Director Nominated Nebraska
- 2012 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Won The Descendants
- 2012 Best Director Nominated The Descendants
- 2012 Best Picture Nominated The Descendants
- 2005 Best Director Nominated Sideways
- 2005 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Won Sideways
- 2000 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated Election
Golden Globe Awards 1 won
- 2005 Best Screenplay Won Sideways
BAFTA Awards 1 won · 2 nominated
- 2005 Best Adapted Screenplay Won Sideways
- — Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated The Descendants, Sideways
- — Best Film Nominated The Descendants
Writers Guild of America 1 won
- — Award Won
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 1 won
- 2011 Best Director Won The Descendants
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Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961) is an Oscar-winning filmmaker whose work has helped define modern-day American cinema. He is best known for the features Election (1999), Sideways (2004), The Descendants (2011), About Schmidt (2002), Nebraska (2013) and The Holdovers (2023). His movies have garnered a total of 24 Academy Award nominations, including four times for Best Picture and three times for Best Director. He has won two Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay (Sideways, The Descendants), and two of his films have won the Golden Globe for Best Picture. His most recent film, The Holdovers, earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Five of his movies were shot at least partially in Nebraska, where he continues to live, dividing his time between there and Los Angeles. An Omaha native, Payne studied History and Spanish Literature at Stanford before earning an MFA in Film at UCLA. He serves on the boards of the Telluride Film Festival and The Film Foundation.
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Filmography
Directing
18 credits
The Holdovers
Hung
The Descendants
Downsizing
About Schmidt
Sideways
Paris Je T'aime
Election
Nebraska
Citizen Ruth
Inside Out 3
Inside Out
Cinema16: American Short Films
14e Arrondissement
Somewhere Out There
Carmen
The Passion of Martin
Untitled Alexander Payne Western
Producing
14 credits
Hung
The Descendants
Downsizing
The Savages
Cedar Rapids
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
King of California
Crash Pad
The Last Shift
Gray Matters
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Small Town Wisconsin
Sideways
The Passion of Martin
Writing
13 credits
The Descendants
Downsizing
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
About Schmidt
Sideways
Paris Je T'aime
Election
Citizen Ruth
Inside Out
Sideways
Jurassic Park III
The Passion of Martin
Program Notes: An Introduction To The Last Detail By Alexander Payne
Acting
11 credits
Paris Je T'aime
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Trespassing Bergman
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
Frank Capra: Mr. America
Hal
Sideways
Berlanga!!
Election - "The Passion of Martin" Introduction
Program Notes: An Introduction To The Last Detail By Alexander Payne
Other credits
5 credits
Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
Carmen
The Replacement Child
The Passion of Martin
About a Trip: Alexander Payne on Hal Ashby's 'The Last Detail'
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