Mira Nair
Directing
1957-10-15 · Rourkela, Orissa, India
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. Nair is married to political scientist Mahmood Mamdani. Their son, Zohran Mamdani, is Mayor of New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mira Nair, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior
2024 · Movie
The Many Miracles of Household Saints
2024 · Movie
National Treasure: Edge of History
2022 · Series
A Suitable Boy
2020 · Series
This Changes Everything
2019 · Movie
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017 · Movie
Queen of Katwe
2016 · Movie
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
2016 · Movie
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016 · Movie
Restoring the Apu Trilogy
2015 · Movie
A Fork, a Spoon & a Knight
2015 · Movie
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Series
Words with Gods
2014 · Movie
Femme
2013 · Movie
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013 · Movie
Solace in the Dark
2011 · Movie
Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
2011 · Movie
Amelia
2009 · Movie
8
2008 · Movie
How Can It Be
2008 · Movie
New York, I Love You
2008 · Movie
Migration
2008 · Movie
Positive
2007 · Movie
Lights, Action, Music
2007 · Movie
The Namesake
2007 · Movie
Koffee with Karan
2004 · Series
Vanity Fair
2004 · Movie
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004 · Movie
11’09”01—September 11: India
2002 · Movie
September 11
2002 · Movie
Hysterical Blindness
2002 · Movie
Bollywood Calling
2001 · Movie
The Laughing Club of India
2001 · Movie
Monsoon Wedding
2001 · Movie
My Own Country
1998 · Movie
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
1997 · Movie
The Perez Family
1995 · Movie
The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat
1993 · Movie
Mississippi Masala
1991 · Movie
Salaam Bombay!
1988 · Movie
India Cabaret
1985 · Movie
So Far from India
1983 · Movie
Jama Masjid Street Journal
1979 · Movie
Amri
Movie