Michael Almereyda
Director

Michael Almereyda Net Worth

He has also produced films such as The Eternal (1998) and Happy Here and Now (2002). Almereyda has been nominated for several awards, including the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director for his work on Experimenter.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Director, Writer, Producer
Birth Year 1960
Birth Place  Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Age 63 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Taurus
Occupation Film director, screenwriter, film producer
Years active 1985–present

💰 Net worth: $13 Million (2024)

Michael Almereyda is a highly accomplished and multi-talented figure in the entertainment industry. As a director, writer, and producer based in the United States, he has made significant contributions to the world of filmmaking. With an impressive track record of successful projects, it comes as no surprise that his net worth is estimated to be a noteworthy $13 million in 2024. Almereyda's creative vision and dedication to his craft have not only garnered critical acclaim but also financial success. His ability to effectively translate his ideas onto the screen has earned him a well-deserved place among the most influential personalities in the industry.

Biography/Timeline

1994

Nadja (1994) was a comic vampire film shot on 35mm with Pixelvision inserts.

2000

Hamlet (2000) was shot on Super 16mm and featured Ethan Hawke, Bill Murray, Kyle MacLachlan, Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber and Sam Shepard. The adaptation layered a contemporary New York setting on Shakespeare’s text.

2002

Almereyda directed features set in pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans: Happy Here and Now (2002) and New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008). In 2004, he directed an episode of the HBO series Deadwood, His most recent work has mainly involved documentaries and shorts.

2005

William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project, as was the sketchbook film Paradise (2009). Marjorie Prime (2017) won the Sloan Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

2008

Almereyda edited and contributed texts for Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and About Mayakovsky, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008, and William Eggleston: For Now, published by Twin Palms in 2010.

2015

In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award.

2019

Almereyda’s films range across many genres, styles, and formats. His first feature, Twister (1989), based on Mary Robison’s novel Oh, was a comedy about a dysfunctional mid-Western family. Another Girl Another Planet (1992) was a romantic chamber piece, a black-and-white, one-hour featurette shot with a Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera.

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