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Alexander Payne
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American film director, producer and screenwriter (born 1961)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1961
- Works
- 8
Top works
- I'll keep thinking
- Downsizing
- Downsizing
- I now pronounce you Chuck & Larry
- Election
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Film & TV
Directing · Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961) is an Oscar-winning filmmaker whose work has helped define modern-day American cinema. He is best known for the features Election (1999), Sideways (2004), The Descendants (2011), About Schmidt (2002), Nebraska (2013) and The Holdovers (2023). His movies have garnered a total of 24 Academy Award nominations, including four times for Best Picture and three…
Known for
- Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern2026
- Frank Capra: Mr. America — Self - Director and Screenwriter2023
- Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil — Self2021
- Berlanga!! — Self - Filmmaker2021
- Hal — Self2019
- Program Notes: An Introduction To The Last Detail By Alexander Payne — Self2017
- About a Trip: Alexander Payne on Hal Ashby's 'The Last Detail'2017
- Election - "The Passion of Martin" Introduction — Himself2017
- Trespassing Bergman — Self2013
- Paris Je T'aime — Oscar Wilde (segment " Pere-Lachaise")2006
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,026
- Total plays
- 2,374
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,115x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,853x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,680x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,552x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,608x
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Key facts
- Born
- Constantine Alexander Payne , ( 1961-02-10 ) February 10, 1961 (age 65) , Omaha , Nebraska , U.S.
- Citizenship
- United States Greece
- Education
- Stanford University ( BA ), University of California, Los Angeles ( MFA )
- Occupations
- Film director screenwriter producer
- Years active
- 1985–present
- Spouses
- Sandra Oh ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2003 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2006 ) Maria Kontos ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2015 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2022 )
- Awards
- Full list
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Encyclopedic overview
Constantine Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961) is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his satirical depictions of contemporary American society. Payne has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.
After directing several short films, Payne made his feature film debut with the black comedy Citizen Ruth (1996). His career progressed with the political satire Election (1999), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the comedy-drama About Schmidt (2002). Payne twice won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing his directorials Sideways (2004) and The Descendants (2011). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for these two films and for the road film Nebraska (2013). He has since directed the comedy-dramas Downsizing (2017), and The Holdovers (2023). As of January 2026, Payne is directing a Danish-language comedy-drama, Somewhere Out There.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexander Payne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.