Jonathan Demme was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of film and television
Jonathan Demme was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of film and television
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Producer | Writer | |||
| 1971 | Angels Hard as They Come | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1972 | The Hot Box | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1973 | Black Mama White Mama | Story | |||
| 1974 | Caged Heat | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1975 | Crazy Mama | Yes | |||
| 1976 | Fighting Mad | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1977 | Handle with Care | Yes | originally titled Citizens Band | ||
| 1979 | Last Embrace | Yes | |||
| 1980 | Melvin and Howard | Yes | |||
| 1984 | Swing Shift | Yes | |||
| 1986 | Something Wild | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1987 | Swimming to Cambodia | Yes | Concert film | ||
| 1988 | Married to the Mob | Yes | |||
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Yes | [1] [2] | ||
| 1993 | Philadelphia | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1998 | Beloved | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2002 | The Truth About Charlie | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2008 | Rachel Getting Married | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2013 | A Master Builder | Yes | |||
| 2015 | Ricki and the Flash | Yes | |||
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| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Producer | Writer | |||
| 1984 | Stop Making Sense | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1987 | Haiti: Dreams of Democracy | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1992 | Cousin Bobby | Yes | |||
| 1994 | The Complex Sessions | Yes | |||
| One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room 1994 [3] | Yes | ||||
| 1996 | Mandela | Yes | |||
| 1998 | Storefront Hitchcock | Yes | |||
| 2003 | The Agronomist | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also cinematographer |
| Beah: A Black Woman Speaks | Yes | ||||
| 2006 | Neil Young: Heart of Gold | Yes | |||
| 2007 | Man from Plains | Yes | Yes | ||
| Right to Return: New Home Movies From the Lower 9th Ward [4] | Yes | ||||
| 2009 | Neil Young Trunk Show | Yes | |||
| 2011 | I'm Carolyn Parker [5] | Yes | Yes | Also cinematographer | |
| 2012 | Neil Young Journeys | Yes | Yes | ||
| Enzo Avitabile Music Life [6] | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2015 | What's Motivating Hayes [7] | Yes | Short film | ||
| 2016 | Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids [8] | Yes | |||
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | |||
| 1978 | Columbo | Yes | Episode "Murder Under Glass" | ||
| 1980–86 | Saturday Night Live [9] | Yes | Yes | 3 episodes | |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Yes | Episode "Who Am I This Time?" | ||
| 1987 | Trying Times | Yes | Episode "A Family Tree" | ||
| 1997 | Subway Stories | Yes | Segment "Subway Car from Hell" | ||
| 2011 | Enlightened [3] | Yes | 2 episodes | ||
| A Gifted Man [3] | Yes | Yes | Episode "Pilot" | ||
| 2013–14 | The Killing [10] | Yes | 2 episodes | ||
| 2017 | Shots Fired [8] | Yes | Episode "Hour Six: The Fire This Time" | ||
| 2018 | Seven Seconds | Yes | Episode "Brenton's Breath" (Posthumous release) | ||
| Year | Title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | "Gidget Goes to Hell" | Suburban Lawns |
| 1985 | "The Perfect Kiss" [11] | New Order |
| "Everybody's Young" | Sandra Bernhard | |
| 1987 | "Solitude Standing" | Suzanne Vega |
| 1988 | "Away" | The Feelies [12] |
| 1995 | "Murder Incorporated" [11] | Bruce Springsteen |
| Year | Title [11] | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | The Incredible Melting Man | Matt Winters | |
| 1979 | Last Embrace | Man on Train | |
| 1985 | Into the Night | Federal Agent | |
| 1996 | That Thing You Do! | Producer of That Thing You Do! Director of Weekend At Party Pier | |
| 2000 | Oz | Commercial Director [3] | |
| 2015 | I Thought I Told You to Shut Up | Narrator [13] | Short documentary |
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor. One of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actors, he is known for his performances on the screen and stage. Hopkins has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He has also received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005 and the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2008. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama in 1993.
Robert Jonathan Demme was an American filmmaker, whose career directing, producing, and screenwriting spanned more than 30 years and 70 feature films, documentaries, and television productions. He was an Academy Award and a Directors Guild of America Award winner, and received nominations for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Independent Spirit Awards.
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name. It stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer named "Buffalo Bill", who skins his female victims. To catch him, she seeks the advice of the imprisoned Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. The film also features performances from Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, and Kasi Lemmons.
Edward Kern Demme was an American director, producer, and actor.
Roger William Corman was an American film director, producer and actor. Known under various monikers such as "The Pope of Pop Cinema", "The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood", and "The King of Cult", he was known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film.
Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, with one being for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979, and collaborated with Martin Scorsese on six of his films.
"Goodbye Horses" is a song recorded by American singer Q Lazzarus. It was written by Q Lazzarus's bandmate, William Garvey, and released in 1988, with an extended version released three years later. It is a synth-pop, dark wave, and new wave song with lyrics based on "transcendence over those who see the world as only earthly and finite" and androgynous vocals from Q Lazzarus.
Hannibal is a 2001 psychological horror crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and based on the 1999 novel by Thomas Harris. A sequel to the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, the plot follows disgraced FBI special agent Clarice Starling as she attempts to apprehend cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter before his surviving victim, Mason Verger, captures him. Anthony Hopkins reprises his role as Lecter, while Julianne Moore replaces Jodie Foster as Starling and Gary Oldman plays Verger. Ray Liotta, Frankie R. Faison, Giancarlo Giannini, and Francesca Neri also star. It’s an international co-production film between the United States and the United Kingdom.
The 64th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1991 in the United States and took place on March 30, 1992, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Jeff Margolis. Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the third consecutive year. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 7, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Tom Hanks.
Diane Luckey, known professionally as Q Lazzarus, was an American singer. She is best known for her 1988 song "Goodbye Horses", which became a cult classic after being prominently featured in a scene from Jonathan Demme's 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs. Several of her songs were featured in other films directed by Demme before she disappeared from the public eye in the mid-1990s.
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1988 psychological horror crime thriller novel by Thomas Harris. Published August 29, it is the sequel to Harris's 1981 novel Red Dragon and both novels feature the cannibalistic serial killer and brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter. This time, however, he is pitted against FBI trainee Clarice Starling as she works to solve the case of the "Buffalo Bill" serial killer. It is the most well-known installment of Harris' Hannibal Lecter series, selling over 10 million copies.
Edward Bradley Saxon is an American film producer and endowed Chair of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Saxon is arguably best known for producing the film The Silence of the Lambs, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and is, to date, the third and last film to sweep the five main categories of Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture.
Gary Michael Goetzman is an American film and television producer and actor, and co-founder of the production company Playtone with actor Tom Hanks.
Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 American drama film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, and Debra Winger. The film premiered at the 65th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2008, opened in Canada's Toronto International Film Festival on September 6 and released in the U.S. to select theaters on October 3. Hathaway received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the film.
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress and filmmaker. She has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. She was also honored with the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2013 and the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2021.
Ron Bozman is an American film producer who won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1991 for the film The Silence of the Lambs.
Juan Suárez Botas was a Spanish illustrator and film maker. His illustrations appeared on the covers of Time, Fortune, U.S. News & World Report and other magazines. His drawings appeared in The New York Times, Vogue and other publications.
The Hannibal Lecter franchise is an American media franchise based around the titular character, Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant, cannibalistic serial killer whose assistance is routinely sought out by law enforcement personnel to aid in the capture of other criminals. He originally appeared in a series of novels by Thomas Harris. The series has since expanded into film and television, having four timeline-connected franchise films: The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001), Red Dragon (2002) and Hannibal Rising (2007), with three starring Anthony Hopkins.
The Salesman is a 2016 Iranian-French drama film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi and starring Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini. It is about a married couple who perform Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman on stage. When the wife is assaulted, her husband attempts to determine the identity of the attacker, while she struggles to cope with post-trauma stress. Farhadi chose Miller's play as his story within a story based on shared themes. A co-production between Iran and France, the film was shot in Tehran, beginning in 2015.
Kristina Gwyn Zea is an American production designer, costume designer, art director, director and producer in film and television. Born and educated in New York City, she discovered she had a talent for design while working as a stylist for a commercial photographer. Her career in production design blossomed in the 1980s and 1990s as she worked on numerous films for several directors—including Alan Parker, James L. Brooks, Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese, across a wide selection of genres, including period, contemporary, drama, and horror. She has also directed several HBO films.
