Michael Almereyda#Partial director filmography

{{short description|American film director and screenwriter}}

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| name = Michael Almereyda

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|4|7}}

| birth_place = Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.

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| yearsactive = 1985–present

| occupation = {{flatlist|

• Film director
• screenwriter
• producer}}

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Michael Almereyda (born April 7, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He studied art history at Harvard University but dropped out after three years to pursue filmmaking. He acquired a Hollywood agent on the strength of a spec script about Nikola Tesla.{{cite web|quote=In 1980, Almereyda dropped out of Harvard in order to craft his first screenplay for Tesla.|url=https://www.culturedmag.com/michael-almereyda/|title=Binge Watch This: Director Michael Almereyda is the Avant-Garde Historian and Storyteller We Need|website=Cultured Magazine|last=Leland|first=Erin|date=March 25, 2020|access-date=July 22, 2020}} His film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project."[http://filmmakermagazine.com/2046-gotham-awards-nominations-announced/#.U-TyDGOsk6M Gotham Awards Nominations Announced] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314002444/http://filmmakermagazine.com/2046-gotham-awards-nominations-announced/ |date=2014-03-14 }}", Filmmaker (magazine). Accessed 8 August 2014."[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814034504/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/10/26/brokeback-capote-get-gotham-award-nods/ 'Brokeback,' 'Capote' Get Gotham Award Nods]", Fox News Channel. Accessed 8 August 2014.

In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award.{{cite web|url=http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/797|title=Creative Capital – Investing in Artists who Shape the Future|website=creative-capital.org|access-date=May 25, 2017}} His film Marjorie Prime (2017), a philosophical science-fiction film based on Jordan Harrison's play of the same name, was screened at Sundance Film Festival and won the Sloan Feature Film Prize.{{Cite web|url=http://scienceandfilm.org/articles/2846/marjorie-prime-sloan-sundance-jury-on-2017-prize-winner|title=Sloan Science & Film|website=scienceandfilm.org|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}