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Robert Jonathan Demme was an American director, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs (1991), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. Demme is known for his casually humanist films such as Melvin and Howard (1980), Swing Shift (1984), Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), Philadelphia (1993) and Rachel Getting Married (2008). He has also directed numerous concert films such as Stop Making Sense (1984), Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006), and Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids (2016).
Birth Name
Robert Jonathan Demme
Born
Tuesday, 22 February 1944
Died
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Jodie Foster - Hollywood dans la peau | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2021 |
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2021 |
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny | Himself / Self - Filmmaker | 2016 |
Missing Reel | Self | 2014 |
Pablo | Self | 2012 |
CBS This Morning | Self - Guest | 2012 |
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel | Self / Self - Filmmaker | 2011 |
On Story | Self | 2011 |
Machete Maidens Unleashed! | Self - New World Filmmaker | 2010 |
PogieJoe | Self | 2010 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Deep Time | 2015 |
The Center | 2015 |
Song One | 2014 |
Enzo Avitabile Music Life | 2013 |
Gimme the Loot | 2012 |
Neil Young Journeys | 2012 |
A Gifted Man | 2011 |
I'm Carolyn Parker | 2011 |
Neil Young: Trunk Show | 2009 |
Crude Independence | 2009 |
Rachel Getting Married | 2008 |
Jimmy Carter Man from Plains | 2007 |
Neil Young: Heart of Gold | 2006 |
The Manchurian Candidate | 2004 |
The Agronomist | 2004 |
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks | 2003 |
Adaptation. | 2002 |
The Truth About Charlie | 2002 |
Maangamizi: The Ancient One | 2001 |
The Opportunists | 2000 |
Beloved | 1998 |
Shadrach | 1998 |
SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground | 1997 |
Mandela | 1996 |
That Thing You Do! | 1996 |
Devil in a Blue Dress | 1995 |
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith | 1995 |
Philadelphia | 1993 |
Household Saints | 1993 |
Amos & Andrew | 1993 |
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules | 1991 |
Miami Blues | 1990 |
Haiti Dreams of Democracy | 1988 |
P.O.V. | 1988 |
Something Wild | 1986 |
The Hot Box | 1972 |
Angels Hard as They Come | 1971 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1992 | Oscar | Best Director | Won |
1992 | Golden Globe | Best Director - Motion Picture | Nominated |