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Michael Almereyda

Directing

Born April 7, 1959 · Overland Park, Kansas, USA

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Biography

Michael Almereyda 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. His films include Hamlet (2000) and Experimenter (2015). His film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project.

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Awards & recognition

  • Sitges Film Festival Best Director award · 1995
  • Guggenheim Fellowship

Filmography13 titles

Deadwood

2004Director

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

2025Director, Writer

Until the End of the World

1991Additional Writing

Experimenter

2015Director, Producer, Writer

Marjorie Prime

2017Director, Writer

Cherry 2000

1987Screenplay

Tesla

2020Director, Producer, Writer

Escapes

2017Director, Producer, Writer

Hamlet

2000Adaptation, Director, Screenplay

Twister

1989Director, Writer

The Eternal

1998Director, Screenplay

Search and Destroy

1995Screenplay

Cymbeline

2014Director, Screenplay