Mira Nair
- Directing
- October 15, 1957 · Rourkela, Orissa, India
Biography
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films. She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nair used the proceeds to establish an organisation for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard. Nair has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards. She was also awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year-2007, which was presented by Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc, and India Abroad Person of the Year-2006. Nair is married to political scientist Mahmood Mamdani. Their son, Zohran Mamdani, is Mayor of New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mira Nair, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior · Self
- The Many Miracles of Household Saints · Self
- National Treasure: Edge of History · Executive producer, Director
- A Suitable Boy · Director
- This Changes Everything · Self
- Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life · Self
- Queen of Katwe · Director
- Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses · Self
- The 4%: Film's Gender Problem · Self
- Restoring the Apu Trilogy · Self
- A Fork, a Spoon & a Knight · Director, Writer
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Words with Gods · Director
- Femme · Self
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist · Director
- Solace in the Dark · Self
- Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded · Self
- Amelia · Director
- 8 · Director, Producer
- How Can It Be · Director
- New York, I Love You · Director
- Migration · Director, Executive producer
- Positive · Executive producer
- Lights, Action, Music · Self
- The Namesake · Director, Producer
- Koffee with Karan · Self
- Vanity Fair · Director
- Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers · Self
- 11’09”01—September 11: India · Director
- September 11 · Director
- Hysterical Blindness · Director
- Bollywood Calling · Mira
- The Laughing Club of India · Director
- Monsoon Wedding · Director, Producer
- My Own Country · Saryu Joshi, Director
- Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love · Writer, Director
- The Perez Family · Woman Buying Flowers, Director
- The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat · Director, Writer
- Mississippi Masala · Gossip Aunty #1, Director
- Salaam Bombay! · Director, Story
- India Cabaret · Interviewer, Director
- So Far from India · Interviewer/Narrator, Director
- Jama Masjid Street Journal · Director
- Amri · Director, Producer