Neil Jordan won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.
22 Facts About Neil Jordan
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Neil Jordan has won three Irish Film and Television Awards, as well as the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival for Michael Collins and the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy.
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Neil Jordan was born in Sligo, the son of Angela, a painter, and Michael Neil Jordan, a professor.
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Later, Neil Jordan attended University College Dublin, where he studied Irish history and English literature.
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Neil Jordan graduated in 1972 with a BA in History.
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Neil Jordan became involved in student theatre there, where he met Jim Sheridan, who was later to become an important Irish film director.
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Neil Jordan's career began in the late 1970s working for the Irish television channel, RTE.
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Neil Jordan was the driving force behind the cable TV series The Borgias.
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The Crying Game and Breakfast on Pluto both concern a transgender character, both concern The Troubles, and both feature frequent Neil Jordan leading man Stephen Rea.
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Neil Jordan frequently tells stories about children or young people, such as The Miracle and The Butcher Boy.
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Neil Jordan later returned home to make the more personal The Crying Game, which was nominated for six Academy Awards.
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Neil Jordan won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film.
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Neil Jordan directed the crime drama The Brave One starring Jodie Foster.
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Neil Gaiman announced during his Today show appearance on 27 January 2009, that Neil Jordan would be directing the film of his Newbery Medal-winning book The Graveyard Book.
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Neil Jordan wrote and directed the 2009 Irish-made film Ondine, starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda-Curus.
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Neil Jordan directed Byzantium, an adaptation of the vampire play of the same name starring Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton and Jonny Lee Miller.
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Neil Jordan directed the thriller Greta, starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz.
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Neil Jordan said he has no idea who rewrote these episodes.
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Neil Jordan has five children: Anna and Sarah from his marriage to solicitor Vivienne Shields; Dashiel and Daniel from his current marriage to Brenda Rawn, and Ben, from a relationship with architect Mary Donohoe.
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In 1996, Neil Jordan was honoured with receiving the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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Neil Jordan has received many honorary doctorates, most notably from Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and Queen's University Belfast.
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Neil Jordan's donation included TV and film scripts, production files, notebooks, storyboards and personal correspondence with artists and political figures.