Michael Almereyda

Michael Almereyda (born April 7, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He studied art history at Harvard University but dropped out after three years to pursue filmmaking. He acquired a Hollywood agent on the strength of a spec script about Nikola Tesla.^[1] His film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project.^[2][3]

Michael Almereyda
Born	(1959-04-07) April 7, 1959 (age 66) Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.
Occupations	Film director screenwriter producer
Years active	1985–present

In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award.^[4] His film Marjorie Prime (2017), a philosophical science-fiction film based on Jordan Harrison's play of the same name, was screened at Sundance Film Festival and won the Sloan Feature Film Prize.^[5]

Partial filmography

A Hero of Our Time (1985) Twister (1989) Another Girl Another Planet (1992) Nadja (1994) At Sundance (1995) The Rocking Horse Winner (1997) The Eternal (1998) Hamlet (2000) Happy Here and Now (2002) This So-Called Disaster (2004) William Eggleston in the Real World (2005)[2][3] New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008) Big River Blues (2008)

Tonight at Noon (2009) Paradise (2009) The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes (2011) The Ogre's Feathers (2012) Skinningrove (2013) Cymbeline (2014) Experimenter (2015) Marjorie Prime (2017) Escapes (2017) Tesla (2020)

Recognition and awards

• 2025 – Almereyda was appointed as a member of the jury at the 78th Locarno Film Festival for Pardo Verde Competition.^[6]

• 2017 – Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Marjorie Prime at 2017 Sundance Film Festival.^[7]