Filmography

HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN (2012) HBO

  • Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Screenplay by Jerry Stahl and Barbara Turner

  • Starring Clive Owen, Nicole Kidman

  • Official Selection of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

  • Nominated for 15 Emmy Awards

TWISTED (2004) Paramount Pictures

  • Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Written by Sarah Thorp

  • Starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia

QUILLS (2000) Fox Searchlight

  • Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Written by Doug Wright, based on his play, Quills

  • Starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine, Joaquin Phoenix

  • Nominated for 3 Academy Awards.

CHINA: THE WILD EAST (1995) TBS

  • Directed by Peter Kaufman

  • Narrated and Produced by Philip Kaufman

RISING SUN (1993) 20th Century Fox

  • Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Screenplay co-written by Philip Kaufman

  • Starring Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa

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HENRY & JUNE (1990) Universal

  • Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Screenplay by Philip and Rose Kaufman, based on Anais Nin’s journals

  • Starring Uma Thurman, Fred Ward, Maria de Medieros

  • 1 Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography

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THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (1988) Orion

  • Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Screenplay by Jean-Claude Carriere and Philip Kaufman, based on Milan Kundera novel

  • Starring Daniel Day Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin

  • Won 2 National Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Director and for Best Picture in 1988; received International Orson Welles Award for Best Filmmaker in 1988; won British Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1988; Writers Guild of America nomination; 2 Academy Award nominations including Best Screenplay based on material from another medium

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THE RIGHT STUFF (1983) Ladd Co., Warner Bros.

  • Written and directed by Philip Kaufman. Screenplay based on book by Tom Wolfe

  • Starring Sam Shepard, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid

  • 8 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture; won 4 Academy Awards

  • Won British Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1984; won Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay in 1984; Writers Guild of America nomination; Directors Guild of America nomination

  • Named for induction to the National Film Registry

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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1979) United Artists

  • Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy

  • Won Best Director Award from the Academy of Science Fiction. Received other science fiction awards Philip Kaufman Page Two

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THE WANDERERS (1978) Orion

  • Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Screenplay by Philip and Rose Kaufman, based on novel by Richard Price

  • Starring Ken Wahl and Karen Allen

  • Screenplay by Philip and Rose Kaufman

  • “It’s like GREASE with brass knuckles. THE WANDERERS is a violent, sweet-tempered, funny and compassionate ode to the knights of the inner city who had to fight to grow up.” –Jack Kroll, NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE

  • “THE WANDERERS is always worth watching It contains more surprises than a walking tour of Times Square at 3 in the morning: you never know whether the intense activity will explode into violence, scatalogical humor or even sentimentality.” –Frank Rich, TIME

  • “THE WANDERERS has a humor, a pungency and a pictorial vividness matched by few movies these days.” –Richard Freedman, NEWARK STAR LEDGER

  • ”THE WANDERERS has stimulated, moved and excited me more than any film I have seen in months…Phil Kaufman’s THE WANDERERS is like WEST SIDE STORY flavored with comic grotesquerie and melancholy poetry of Fellini… THE WANDERERS reawakens our sense of wonder at the most exotic country of all–our own buried past.” –Stephen Farber, NEW WEST MAGAZINE

  • “Full of sexy scenes and pungent performances…As an acting debut, (Ken) Wahl’s performance is phenomenal.” –Michael Sragow, LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER

THE WHITE DAWN (1974) Paramount

  • Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Filmed on Baffin Island, Canadian Arctic

  • Starring Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett, and native Inuit

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THE GREAT NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA RAID (1972) Universal

  • Written and Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Starring Cliff Robertson and Robert Duvall

  • Writers Guild of America nomination

FEARLESS FRANK (1965) 

  • Written and Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Starring Jon Voight in his first film

GOLDSTEIN (1963)

  • Co-written, co-directed and co-produced by Philip Kaufman

  • Cannes Film Festival, 1964, won “Young Critics Prize” with Bertolucci’s “Before the Revolution”