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Neil Jordan

Directing

Born February 25, 1950 · Sligo, Ireland

Biography

Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Crying Game (1992). Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil Jordan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Sitges Grand Honorary Award · 2012
  • honorary doctorate · 2010
  • Academy AwardBest Writing, Original Screenplay · 1993
  • Rooney PrizeIrish Literature · 1981
  • Irish PEN Award
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  • Writers Guild of America Award
  • European Film AwardBest Film · 2006 · nominated
  • European Film AwardBest Film · 1998 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Director · 1993 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Writing, Original Screenplay · nominated

Filmography25 titles

Traveller

1981Writer

The Borgias

2011Creator, Director, Executive Producer, Writer

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

1994Director

Breakfast on Pluto

2005Director, Producer, Screenplay

Michael Collins

1996Director, Writer

Mona Lisa

1986Director, Writer

The Butcher Boy

1997Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay

The Crying Game

1992Director, Writer

Greta

2018Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay

The Brave One

2007Director

The End of the Affair

1999Director, Producer, Screenplay

An Accidental Studio

2019as Self

Ondine

2009Director, Producer, Writer

Byzantium

2012Director

The Company of Wolves

1984Director, Screenplay

Intermission

2003Producer

We're No Angels

1989Director

The Good Thief

2002Director, Executive Producer, Writer

High Spirits

1988Director, Writer

Marlowe

2022Director, Screenplay

The Actors

2003Producer, Story

In Dreams

1999Director, Screenplay

The View

1997as Self

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

2018as Self

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

2013as Self