Search results
- Neil Jordan. Writer: The Crying Game. Director Neil Jordan started out by writing short stories and in 1976 his story A Night in Tunisia won a Guardian Fiction prize leading to film director John Boorman to hire him to make a documentary about the making of his film Excalibur which in turn got Neil into making films.
www.imdb.com › name › nm0001403
› Directed
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. He first achieved recognition for his short story collection, Night in Tunisia, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979.
People also ask
How did Neil Jordan start making films?
Who is Neil Jordan?
What did Neil Jordan do before he became a writer?
Where did Neil Jordan start his career?
Director Neil Jordan started out by writing short stories and in 1976 his story A Night in Tunisia won a Guardian Fiction prize leading to film director John Boorman to hire him to make a documentary about the making of his film Excalibur which in turn got Neil into making films.
- January 1, 1
- Sligo, Ireland
First films. In the early 1980s Jordan caught the attention of filmmaker John Boorman with a script about two young Irish Travellers in an arranged marriage. The script was eventually turned into the film Traveller (1981), directed by Joe Comerford. Meanwhile, Boorman hired Jordan as a script consultant on the film Excalibur (1981).
Jan 22, 2021 · Before Neil Jordan (b. 1950) became an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film director, he earned a living as a short-story writer and a novelist. For “Night in Tunisia,” a collection of short stories originally published in 1976, he won the Guardian Fiction Prize and Somerset Maugham Award. When he began making films a few years…
Director Neil Jordan started out by writing short stories and in 1976 his story A Night in Tunisia won a Guardian Fiction prize leading to film director John Boorman to hire him to make a documentary about the making of his film Excalibur which in turn got Neil into making films.
- February 25, 1950
Jul 22, 2012 · February 25, 1950, Sligo, Ireland. With each successive outing, Neil Jordan–without doubt the most interesting filmmaker to emerge thus far from Ireland–astonishes the viewer with the eclectic, catholic range of his interests. From Angel (1982) to The Borgias (2011-2012) and the forthcoming Byzantium (2012), Jordan’s peregrinations ...
Feb 26, 2016 · His film career started in the 1980s, when he was recruited by director John Boorman during his filming of Excalibur in Ireland. His first film, Angel, starred Stephen Rea, who’s been somewhat...
