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James Ivory
James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. For many years he worked extensively with Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, his domestic as well as professional partner, and with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. All three were principals in Merchant Ivory Productions, whose films have won six Academy Awards; Ivory himself has been nominated for four Oscars, winning one. Ivory’s directorial work includes A Room with a View (1986), Maurice (1987), Howards End (1992), and The Remains of the Day (1993). For his work on Call Me by Your Name (2017), which he wrote and produced, Ivory won awards for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Academy Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Writers Guild of America, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the Scripter Awards, among others. Upon winning the Oscar and BAFTA at the age of 89, Ivory became the oldest-ever winner in any category for both awards.
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Born
1928-06-07
Birth Place
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Education
University_of_Southern_California
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James Ivory on the Long, Rocky Road to His Collaboration with Vanessa Redgrave

Above: James Ivory with Madeline Potter and Vanessa Redgrave on the set of The Bostonians (From the collection of James Ivory) Ask directors and they’ll tell you there’s actress A, B, or C (it could also be actor X, Y, or Z) they’re crazy to work with some day. Vanessa Redgrave was at the head of my list, and when Merchant Ivory started to think seriously about The Bostonians—or as soon as there was a script—we got in touch with her. She was our first choice for the part of Olive Chancellor, but she turned it down. This was the spring of 1981. Since we were in London, we asked her to dinner in order to talk about it, even though we knew she felt negative about the project.
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Question-and-Author: Director James Ivory house-hops in Charleston

Film director James Ivory can spot a sublime setting. His films, which often are screen adaptations of acclaimed works of literature, have such a sense of place that the location is almost a character in an of itself. Think of the films he's created with Merchant Ivory Productions, among them...
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Excerpt: Director James Ivory Remembers a Chance Meeting With Jean Renoir

Founded 60 years ago, Merchant Ivory Productions is essentially what Google is to the search engine, but for film adaptations of novels. When somebody says that they looked something up online, we just assume they “Googled it”; when you see a period drama set in the English countryside during the Edwardian era, you automatically assume it was produced by Ismail Merchant and directed by James Ivory.
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Book review: Oscar winner James Ivory delivers patchy memoir

"Solid Ivory: Memoirs" by James Ivory (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Film director James Ivory knows how to tell a story and engage an audience. His most popular and critically acclaimed costume dramas -- "A Room With a View," "Howards End" and "The Remains of the Day" -- earned him three Oscar nominations. So it is odd that the second half of the famed Merchant Ivory film company could write a foundering second half to his memoir.
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