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James Francis Ivory (born Richard Jerome Hazen [1] June 7, 1928) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Ivory, Indian film producer Ismail Merchant (his domestic and professional partner), and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala were the principals in Merchant Ivory Productions.
James Ivory. Writer: Call Me by Your Name. The main part of his few movies were filmed in the quarter of a century in which he worked closely together with the Indian producer Ismail Merchant and the German writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
4 days ago · Oscar-winning screenwriter and veteran director James Ivory, who is considered to be a gay icon, says that being out in Hollywood or a "gay filmmaker" is a modern concept. "It's kind...
Nov 10, 2021 · Over the course of more than two dozen movies, filmmaker James Ivory became best known for his decades-long collaboration with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala on...
Nov 3, 2022 · James Ivory Has Been Making Films for 70 Years. His Latest Might Be His Most Personal. The 94-year-old Oscar winner on his life-changing trip to Afghanistan, the secret to longevity, and what he...
Nov 8, 2021 · At 93, James Ivory — one half of the legendary filmmaking duo Merchant Ivory — has written a candid, no-holds-barred memoir about his career and love life. From his home in upstate New York, the director talks about the birds and the bees.
At age 89, James Ivory became the oldest winner of a competitive Academy Award on March 4, 2018 (Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me by Your Name (2017) ). In 2017, James Ivory announced his new feature film project Richard II, for which he has already a screenplay, a cast and locations.
Nov 1, 2021 · Born Richard Jerome Hazen and renamed as an infant by his adoptive parents, Ivory is now 93. There is a wistful defiance to his sexual frankness as a Protestant gay man who came of age in an era...
3 days ago · Director Stephen Soucy and subject James Ivory discuss Soucy's documentary on Ivory and Ismail Merchant, his partner in life and filmmaking with whom he made dozens of now classic films. From ...
4 days ago · Director James Ivory (photo: Cohen Media Group) Character struggles I suggested to Ivory that the theme of many of his films was repression in the sense of characters struggling to escape the confines of their upbringing or culture and willing to go against convention or the status quo, to express their true selves.