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jonathan demme
Jonathan Demme began his career as a writer and producer with Roger Corman in 1971 and has directed and produced more than 40 movies since.
His films have been nominated for 20 Academy Awards, including Beloved, Melvin and Howard, Philadelphia, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Who Am I this Time?, Rachel Getting Married, The Manchurian Candidate, and Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Oscar for Best Director in 1991.
He also produced Spike Jonze' Adaptation, Tom Hanks' That Thing You Do and Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress.
Most recently, Demme directed Ricki and the Flash, starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Audra McDonald, Mamie Gummer and Rick Springfield, which is slated for release in Summer 2015.
His documentaries and performance films include Cousin Bobby, The Agronomist, Haiti Dreams of Democracy, Stop Making Sense, Swimming to Cambodia, Neil Young Heart of Gold, Neil Young Trunk Show, Neil Young Journeys, Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains, I’m Carolyn Parker, The Good the Mad and the Beautiful, New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward, Tavis Smiley's Been In the Storm Too Long and most recently A Master Builder and Enzo Avitabile Music Life, released in 2013.
In television, Demme has directed episodes of Columbo, Enlightened, The Killing and the pilot for A Gifted Man.
NEW YORK 2015
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