Alexander Payne

Known for DirectingBorn 1961-02-10 (age 65)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 times for Best Director. He has won two Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay (Sideways, The Descendants), and two of his films have won the Golden Globe for Best Picture. His most recent film, The Holdovers, earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Five of his movies were shot at least partially in Nebraska, where he continues to live, dividing his time between there and Los Angeles. An Omaha native, Payne studied History and Spanish Literature at Stanford before earning an MFA in Film at UCLA. He serves on the boards of the Telluride Film Festival and The Film Foundation.Read more

Movies & web series

Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil

Berlanga!!

The Holdovers

Nebraska

Cinema16: American Short Films

Program Notes: An Introduction To The Last Detail By Alexander Payne

Sideways

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

The Savages

The Descendants

Election

About Schmidt

Paris Je T'aime

Hal

Trespassing Bergman

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Hung

Citizen Ruth

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

King of California

Frank Capra: Mr. America

Small Town Wisconsin

Jurassic Park III

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

The Replacement Child

Cedar Rapids

The Last Shift

Gray Matters

Crash Pad

The Passion of Martin

Downsizing

Carmen

Sideways

Inside Out 3

Inside Out

Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern

About a Trip: Alexander Payne on Hal Ashby's 'The Last Detail'

Election - "The Passion of Martin" Introduction

14e Arrondissement

Untitled Alexander Payne Western

Somewhere Out There