Alexander Payne
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The ThumbScore for Alexander Payne (70.3%) is the average audience approval rating across 7 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Alexander's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961) is an Oscar-winning filmmaker whose work has helped define modern-day American cinema. He is best known for the features Election (1999), Sideways (2004), The Descendants (2011), About Schmidt (2002), Nebraska (2013) and The Holdovers (2023). His movies have garnered a total of 24 Academy Award nominations, including four times for Best Picture and three times for Best Director. He has won two Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay (Sideways, The Descendants), and two of his films have won the Golden Globe for Best Picture. His most recent film, The Holdovers, earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Five of his movies were shot at least partially in Nebraska, where he continues to live, dividing his time between there and Los Angeles. An Omaha native, Payne studied History and Spanish Literature at Stanford before earning an MFA in Film at UCLA. He serves on the boards of the Telluride Film Festival and The Film Foundation.
Born 1961-02-10 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
On ThumbScore, Alexander Payne appears in 7 films with an average audience score of 70.3%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
Sources: TMDB
