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Alexander Payne

American film director, producer and screenwriter (born 1961)

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Born: 1961-02-10

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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…

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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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Type: Person

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Listeners: 1,026
Total plays: 2,374

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5 total works indexed

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,394x
Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,245x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,072x
SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 23,988x

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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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Key dates

Born: 10 February 1961

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Instance of: human
Given name: Alexander
Gender: male
Citizenship: Greece
Place of birth: Omaha
Spouse: Sandra Oh
Occupation: manufacturer
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
Image: Alexander payne.jpg

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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.