Michael Almereyda

His films include Hamlet (2000) and Experimenter (2015). His film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project. In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award. His film Marjorie Prime (2017), a philosophical science-fiction film based on Jordan Harrison's play of the same name, was screened at Sundance Film Festival and won the Sloan Feature Film Prize.

• Name — Michael Almereyda • Born — 7 April 1959 • Birthplace — Overland Park, Kansas, U.S. • Years Active — 1985–present • Occupation — * Film director • screenwriter • producer

Almereyda was born in Kansas, and, when he was a child, his family moved to Orange County, California, where he befriended the film critic Manny Farber, who became an important influence on his life. He now lives in New York City. His younger sister is the actress, comedian, and writer Spencer Kayden, and he also has two other brothers.

• A Hero of Our Time (1985) • Twister (1989) • Total Recall (1990) - co-writer, uncredited • Until the End of the World (1991) - co-writer, uncredited • Another Girl Another Planet (1992) • Nadja (1994) • At Sundance (1995) • The Rocking Horse Winner (1997) • The Eternal (1998) • Hamlet (2000) • Happy Here and Now (2002) • This So-Called Disaster (2004) • William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) • New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008) • Big River Blues (2008) • Tonight at Noon (2009) • Paradise (2009) • The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes (2011) • The Ogre's Feathers (2012) • Skinningrove (2013) • Cymbeline (2014) • Experimenter (2015) • Marjorie Prime (2017) • Escapes (2017) • The Lonedale Operator (2018) • Tesla (2020) • John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)