Alexander
Payne-Director
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Alexander Payne is known for many great movies and is a
well known director especially after the movie Sideways. He was born on February 10, 1961 and grew up with his
family in Nebraska helping in his grandfather’s restaurant The Virginia Café.
It wasn’t until Payne was around fourteen years old when his interest in film
making began. When he was working with his father in the Café restaurant he was
given an 8mm projector from Kraft foods for being a good customer to them. It
was later on that he got to use a Super 8mm camera when his interest had
peaked.
Going into his education Payne started off majoring in
history and Spanish at Stanford University then later on attended UCLA where he
graduated with his MFA in film school. After his successful thesis film he
created in film school Payne started to get noticed. It was from there he
actually got a directing gig from Universal Studios. Later the film become About Schmidt. It was said on Fandango
that it “polarized” audiences. Saying the film was humorous meditation while
others thought the film to be a depressing glimpse of life (Fandango).
Payne’s first full length film though made in 1996 called
Citizen Ruth, wasn’t one of his
greater works he still manage to later directed some films that were later
recognized as brilliant. It was not until movies like Sideways(2004) and The Descendants (2011) were Payne was
nominated for many academy awards for Best Picture or Best Director. Both
though did receive and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay which is
awesome. He is also known for the films Election
directed in 1999 and his latest film Nebraska
which was released in 2013.
After the movie Sideways
though Payne had a seven year gap before his next full length film. During
that time He wrote and helped produce many films like I Now Pronounce You Chuch and Larry as well as helped with some
television shows. Fun fact with that film Sandlar rewrote so much of what Payne
did that he hated the final product of the movie. Payne also before Sideways was produced he helped with the
famous and block buster hit Jurassic Park
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Looking into Payne’s personal like he was actually
married to Sandra Oh who played Stephanie in his movie Sideways later though in December of 2006 two years after the film
they were divorced after being together for three years previously. Payne
though busys his time when not on the set being a member of the Board of
Directors of the Omaha non-profit film theather. He helps a lot in his hometown and is still
very much close to his family in Nebraska. Payne also goes to many events
across the country receiving honors like the Cannes Film Festival he was
nominated for the Palme ‘dOr in 2013, which is the highest award of the
festival, for his film Nebraska.
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Alexander Payne is a rising director and like I mentioned
earlier a well known one. He also loves to write screenplays just as much as
directing. He has a lot of ambition and I love him for that. Many of his films
are about relationships and life. Every now and then I think it is good to sit
down and watch a movie about that. His next film he is working on according to
IMDb his next film is set to hit making next fall called Wilson. The movie is to be based off of the graphic novel by Daniel
Clowe.
References
IMDB Website
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668247/
Fandango Website
Rotten Tomatoes Website
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/alexander_payne/biography/
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