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      Ira Sachs

      Ira Sachs

      Highest Rated: 100% Film About a Father Who (2020)

      Lowest Rated: 55% Married Life (2007)

      Birthday: Nov 21, 1965

      Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee, USA

      Critically acclaimed writer-director Ira Sachs became one of the leading figures in gay cinema during the late-1990s and early 2000s with such intimate personal dramas as "Forty Shades of Blue" (2006), "Married Life" (2007) and "Keep the Lights On" (2012). Born Nov. 21, 1965 in Memphis, TN, Sachs moved to New York City after graduating from Yale University with a degree in literature and film theory. Spurred to make films after absorbing the vibrant and thriving cinema scene in Paris, he made his directorial debut with "Lady" (1993), a short about gender-bending performer Dominique Dibbell. His first feature, "The Delta" (1996), concerned a teenager's journey of self-discovery as he explored the gay lifestyle. Filmed in Sachs' hometown, the film received two Producer's Award nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards as well as the Outstanding Emerging Talent from the 1997 Outfest film festival. After receiving a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1999, his next feature, 2006's "Forty Shades of Blue," concerned a young Russian woman (Dina Korzun) as she struggled to balance her relationship with a much older, hell-raising music producer (Rip Torn) and her own needs and desires. The critically acclaimed picture, which was inspired in part by Sachs' own father, captured the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, while also netting an Indie Spirit nomination for Korzun.

      Highest rated movies

      100% Film About a Father Who

      Photos

      LOVE IS STRANGE, director Ira Sachs, on set, 2014. ph: Jeong Park/©Sony Pictures Classics LOVE IS STRANGE, from left: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, director Ira Sachs, on set, 2014./©Sony Pictures Classics LOVE IS STRANGE, from left: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, director Ira Sachs, on set, 2014./©Sony Pictures Classics LOVE IS STRANGE, director Ira Sachs, on set, 2014. ph: Jeong Park/©Sony Pictures Classics LOVE IS STRANGE, director Ira Sachs, on set, 2014. ph: Jeong Park/©Sony Pictures Classics LOVE IS STRANGE, from left: Alfred Molina, John Lithgow, director Ira Sachs, on set, 2014. ph: Clay Enos/©Sony Pictures Classics MARRIED LIFE, Patricia Clarkson, director Ira Sachs, Chris Cooper, on set, 2007. ©MGM MARRIED LIFE, Rachel McAdams, Chris Cooper, director Ira Sachs, Pierce Brosnan, on set, 2007. ©MGM MARRIED LIFE, Pierce Brosnan, director Ira Sachs, Rachel McAdams, on set, 2007. ©MGM LOVE IS STRANGE, director Ira Sachs, on set, 2014. ph: Jeong Park/©Sony Pictures Classics

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      95% 69% Passages Director,
      Screenwriter
      $535.9K 2023
      100% No Score Yet Film About a Father Who Unknown (Character),
      Cinematographer
      - 2020
      57% 31% Frankie Director,
      Screenwriter
      $171.5K 2019
      97% 63% Little Men Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $702.2K 2016
      93% 66% Love Is Strange Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $2.3M 2014
      90% 62% Keep the Lights On Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $243.5K 2012
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Address Director - 2010
      55% 36% Married Life Director,
      Writer,
      Producer
      $1.5M 2007
      61% 43% Forty Shades of Blue Director,
      Writer,
      Producer
      $75.2K 2005
      75% No Score Yet Underground Zero Director - 2002
      63% 37% The Delta Director,
      Writer
      $107.7K 1996
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Vaudeville Director,
      Screenwriter
      - 1992