Basic Information About Neil Jordan
Category | Celebrities βΊ Actors |
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Professions | Film director, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Novelist, Television Director, Television producer, Author, Writer |
Net worth | $15,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1950-02-25 (74 years old) |
Place of birth | Sligo |
Nationality | Republic of Ireland |
Curiosities and Trademarks | Stephen Rea features in many of his films Often cast Irish musicians in his films. In many of his films people with no prior acting experience or training appear in leading or substantial supporting roles. |
Gender | Male |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Neil Jordan win?
Oscar |
Golden Globe |
Golder Raspberry |
BAFTA |
Other |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 38 |
Neil Jordan awards
Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
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Oscar - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Winner | The Crying Game | 1993 |
Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film - | Winner | The Crying Game | 1993 |
Felix - Best Director | Winner | The Crying Game | 2013 |
Amanda - Best Foreign Feature Film (Γ rets utenlandske spillefilm) | Winner | The Crying Game | 1993 |
Silver Condor - Best Foreign Film (Mejor PelΓcula Extranjera) | Nominee | The Crying Game | 1994 |
ACCA - Best Director | Nominee | The Crying Game | 1992 |
BSFC Award - Best Screenplay | Winner | The Crying Game | 1992 |
DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Nominee | The Crying Game | 1993 |
Edgar - Best Motion Picture | Nominee | The Crying Game | 1993 |
Independent Spirit Award - Best Foreign Film | Winner | The Crying Game | 1993 |
Goya - Best European Film (Mejor PelΓcula Europea) | Nominee | The Crying Game | 1994 |
Silver Ribbon - Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) | Nominee | The Crying Game | 1994 |
ALFS Award - British Director of the Year | Winner | The Crying Game | 1993 |
LAFCA Award - Best Foreign Film | Winner | The Crying Game | 1992 |
WGA Award (Screen) - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Winner | The Crying Game | 1993 |
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award - Film - Screenplay | Winner | The Crying Game | 1993 |
Hugo - Best Dramatic Presentation | Nominee | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | 1995 |
WGA Award (Screen) - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Nominee | Mona Lisa | 1987 |
Dublin Film Critics Award - Best Irish Film | Winner | Greta | 2019 |
Black Tulip - Best Feature Film | Nominee | Greta | 2019 |
IFTA Award - Best Director - Film | Winner | Byzantium | 2014 |
Golden Berlin Bear - | Nominee | The Miracle | 1991 |
Evening Standard British Film Award - Best Screenplay | Winner | The Miracle | 1992 |
Special Jury Award - | Winner | The Company of Wolves | 1985 |
Special Mention - | Winner | The Company of Wolves | 1985 |
Audience Jury Award - | Winner | The Company of Wolves | 1985 |
ALFS Award - Director of the Year | Winner | The Company of Wolves | 1985 |
Caixa de Catalunya - Best Film | Winner | The Company of Wolves | 1984 |
Golden Lion - | Winner | Michael Collins | 1996 |
Teddy - Best Feature Film | Nominee | Breakfast on Pluto | 2006 |
Audience Award - | Winner | Breakfast on Pluto | 2006 |
BAFTA Film Award - Best Screenplay - Adapted | Winner | The End of the Affair | 2000 |
Evening Standard British Film Award - Best Screenplay | Winner | The End of the Affair | 2001 |
Humanitas Prize - Feature Film Category | Nominee | The End of the Affair | 2000 |
USC Scripter Award - | Nominee | The End of the Affair | 2000 |
Silver Raven - | Winner | In Dreams | 1999 |
Canadian Screen Award - Best International Drama | Winner | The Borgias | 2014 |
Canadian Screen Award - Best International Drama | Winner | The Borgias | 2013 |
Gemini - Best Dramatic Series | Winner | The Borgias | 2011 |
IFTA Award - Best Television Drama | Nominee | The Borgias | 2012 |
Neil Jordan roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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The Crying Game | Director |
The Crying Game | Writer |
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | Director |
Mona Lisa | Director |
Mona Lisa | Writer |
Greta | Director |
Greta | Writer |
Byzantium | Director |
The Miracle | Director |
The Miracle | Writer |
The Company of Wolves | Director |
The Company of Wolves | Writer |
Michael Collins | Director |
Michael Collins | Writer |
Breakfast on Pluto | Director |
Breakfast on Pluto | Writer |
High Spirits | Director |
High Spirits | Writer |
The Brave One | Director |
The End of the Affair | Director |
The End of the Affair | Writer |
In Dreams | Director |
In Dreams | Writer |
We're No Angels | Director |
Riviera | Writer |
Riviera | Writer |
Riviera | Writer |
The Borgias | Director |
The Borgias | Writer |
The Borgias | Writer |
Neil Jordan's Quotes
- I'm fascinated by monsters [and] monstrous people and fascinated with illogic and irrationality.
- I grew up in a respectable, lower-middle-class home. Our family was quite educated; my mother was a painter, and stuff like that. And I didn't chop up my next-door neighbour. But I remember those emotions. It was a very strange world. Ireland is very grey, and it seems like nothing has changed for centuries. The only bits of colour were in churches, with statues and gaudy religious vestments. It was a very insanely Catholic country. And, you have an educational system run by celibate men in skirts, which is bizarre in itself. But, there's just a sweet irrationality to the whole place. - about his life growing up in Ireland
- But in a strange way, the more organization and the more preparation you do, the more freedom it gives to the performances and to those things that are totally dependent on those moments when you shoot. Visual things are very complicated. I can't improvise visual events. I can't improvise a sense of composition. I have to compare. I have to look at the street where we are shooting on. I have to know where the light is coming from. Obviously, you would have to know where the trucks are parked and stuff like that. But what you cannot legislate for is emotion, the way emotion displays itself in a scene and that always comes from the actors. That is the way I work.
- The only reason I ever want to make movies is if there are characters that find bits of themselves that they didn't understand. I don't believe we are fully rational beings. I don't believe that any explanation that we ever give for our behavior is adequate.
- There have been too many vampire films lately. The extraordinary thing is it now appeals to young teenage girls. If Anne Rice's vampires symbolized the spread of AIDS, the creature of the night has become something altogether more 'strange.' When I saw the first Twilight (2008) I thought "OK, well now it's become this allegory about chaste love between teenagers. How weird!"
Interesting Facts about Neil Jordan
- He attended St. Paul's School in Clontarf, Dublin
- His father, a university professor, would never let him read comic books, but read them himself so he knew what children would be interested in.
- He has five children: Anna and Sarah from his marriage to solicitor Vivienne Shields; Dashiel Jordan and Daniel Jordan from his current marriage to Brenda Rawn and Ben a child from a brief relationship with architect Mary Donohoe.
- Is the award-winning author of a number of acclaimed novels and collections of stories. Nearly all his stories are set in Ireland and most deal with the subjects of children, family relationships and childhood memories.
- Good friends and fellow Dubliners Bono and Ali Hewson named their first daughter, Jordan Hewson, who was born in 1989, after him.
- Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1992.
- Directed 4 actors in Oscar nominated performances: Bob Hoskins, Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, and Julianne Moore.
- When he was younger, he played classical guitar, piano, and saxophone.
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