Jonathan Demme
Directing
Born 1944-02-22
Died 2017-04-26
Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA
105 credits
Academy Awards 1
Directors Guild of America 1
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director 2
National Board of Review Award for Best Film 1
Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 1
National Board of Review Award for Best Director 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1992 Best Director Won The Silence of the Lambs
Directors Guild of America 1 won
- 1991 Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Won The Silence of the Lambs
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director 2 won
- 1991 Best Director Won The Silence of the Lambs
- 1980 Best Director Won Melvin and Howard
National Board of Review Award for Best Film 1 won
- — Best Film Won
Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 1 won
- 2008 Best Director Won Rachel Getting Married
National Board of Review Award for Best Director 1 won
- 1991 Best Director Won The Silence of the Lambs
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Robert Jonathan Demme (February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He was best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed the acclaimed films Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), Philadelphia (1993), and Rachel Getting Married (2008), as well as the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense (1984), which is widely considered to be one of the greatest concert films of all time.
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Filmography
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Directing
33 credits
Saturday Night Live
Columbo
American Playhouse
The Killing
Point of View
Philadelphia
Stop Making Sense
The Silence of the Lambs
Enlightened
Seven Seconds
The Manchurian Candidate
Rachel Getting Married
Shots Fired
A Gifted Man
Married to the Mob
Ricki and the Flash
Beloved
The Truth About Charlie
Something Wild
Caged Heat
Fighting Mad
The New Yorker Presents
Last Embrace
Swing Shift
Melvin and Howard
Trying Times
Crazy Mama
The Agronomist
Subway Stories
Trisha Brown's Accumulation with Talking Plus Watermotor
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Storefront Hitchcock
Enzo Avitabile Music Life
Acting
22 credits
Oz
Phantom Thread
Stop Making Sense
Suspiria
That Thing You Do!
Into the Night
Scene by Scene
Married to the Mob
Vox Lux
Last Embrace
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
Corman's World
Ulee's Gold
The Incredible Melting Man
Fly Me
Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
The Agronomist
Eyewitness
Pablo
People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia'
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
Producing
19 credits
Adaptation.
Philadelphia
That Thing You Do!
The Manchurian Candidate
Rachel Getting Married
Devil in a Blue Dress
Amos & Andrew
Beloved
The Truth About Charlie
Something Wild
Miami Blues
Song One
Ulee's Gold
Household Saints
The Agronomist
Subway Stories
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Enzo Avitabile Music Life
Writing
6 credits
Saturday Night Live
Stop Making Sense
The Truth About Charlie
Caged Heat
Fighting Mad
Black Mama, White Mama
Other credits
1 credit
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