James Ivory
American film director
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- June 7, 1928 · Berkeley
- Nationality
- United States
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, film producer, director
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
1986 · United Kingdom · comedy, romance, drama
BAFTA Best Film winner 1987 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 1986 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1987 #6
2.818 citations - 2
1992 · United Kingdom · drama
BAFTA Best Film winner 1993 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 1992 · Ebert's annual top 10 1992 #3
2.668 citations - 3
1993 · United Kingdom / United States · drama
Oscar Best Picture nominee 1993 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1994 #7 · BFI Top 100 British films #64
1.345 citations - 4
1990 · United States / United Kingdom · drama
NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.282 citations - 50.171 citation
- 60.151 citation
Complete filmography
All 32 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1963The Householder
- 1964The Delhi Way
- 1965Shakespeare Wallah
- 1969The Guru
- 1970Bombay Talkie
- 1972Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
- 1972Savages
- 1975Autobiography of a Princess
- 1975The Wild Party
- 1977Roseland
- 1978Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
- 1979The Europeans
- 1979The Five Forty-Eight
- 1980Jane Austen in Manhattan
- 1981Quartet
- 1983Heat and Dust
- 1984The Bostonians
- 1986A Room with a View
- 1987Maurice
- 1989Slaves of New York
- 1990Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
- 1992Howards End
- 1993The Remains of the Day
- 1995Jefferson in Paris
- 1995Lumière and Company
- 1996Surviving Picasso
- 1998A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
- 2000The Golden Bowl
- 2003Le Divorce
- 2006The White Countess
- 2009The City of Your Final Destination
- 2022Un été afghan