Desiree Akhavan

American filmmaker and screenwriter

0.75body-of-work score · ranked #1079 of 2640 directors · 1 film in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
December 27, 1984 · New York City
Nationality
United States
Directing career
2 directorial credits, 2014–2018 · first: Appropriate Behavior (2014) · latest: The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Work
film director, actor, screenwriter, film actor
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Desiree Akhavan
Teddy Award · CC BY 3.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1

    2018 · United States / United Kingdom · drama

    Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner 2018

    0.751 citation

Complete filmography

All 2 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

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