Mira Nair
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 15, 1957, Rourkela, Orissa, India
- Movies
- 43
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.
She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nair used the proceeds to establish an organisation for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard.
Nair has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards. She was also awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year-2007, which was presented by Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc, and India Abroad Person of the Year-2006.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2024 | Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior | Self - director |
| 2024 | The Many Miracles of Household Saints | Self |
| 2019 | This Changes Everything | Self |
| 2017 | Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life | Self |
| 2016 | Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses | Self |
| 2016 | The 4%: Film's Gender Problem | Self |
| 2015 | Restoring the Apu Trilogy | Self |
| 2013 | Femme | Self |
| 2011 | Solace in the Dark | Self |
| 2011 | Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded | Herself |
| 2007 | Lights, Action, Music | Self |
| 2004 | Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers | Self |
| 2001 | Bollywood Calling | Mira |
| 1998 | My Own Country | Saryu Joshi |
| 1995 | The Perez Family | Woman Buying Flowers |
| 1991 | Mississippi Masala | Gossip Aunty #1 |
| 1985 | India Cabaret | Interviewer |
| 1983 | So Far from India | Interviewer/Narrator |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2016 | Queen of Katwe | Director |
| 2015 | A Fork, a Spoon & a Knight | Director, Writer |
| 2014 | Words with Gods | Director |
| 2013 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Director |
| 2009 | Amelia | Director |
| 2008 | 8 | Director, Producer |
| 2008 | How Can It Be | Director |
| 2008 | New York, I Love You | Director |
| 2008 | Migration | Director |
| 2007 | The Namesake | Director, Producer |
| 2004 | Vanity Fair | Director |
| 2002 | 11’09”01—September 11: India | Director |
| 2002 | September 11 | Director |
| 2002 | Hysterical Blindness | Director |
| 2001 | The Laughing Club of India | Director |
| 2001 | Monsoon Wedding | Director, Producer |
| 1998 | My Own Country | Director, Producer |
| 1997 | Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 1995 | The Perez Family | Director |
| 1993 | The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat | Director, Writer |
| 1991 | Mississippi Masala | Director, Producer |
| 1988 | Salaam Bombay! | Director, Producer |
| 1985 | India Cabaret | Director |
| 1983 | So Far from India | Director, Producer |
| 1979 | Jama Masjid Street Journal | Director |
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