Jim McBride

Jim McBride

Actor · Director · Producer · Writer

New York City, New York, USA
September 16, 1941

Biography

Jim McBride is an American television and film director, film producer and screenwriter. Richard Brody, writing for The New Yorker, named McBride as one of the twelve greatest living narrative filmmakers, citing David Holzman's Diary as a "time capsule of sights and sounds, ideas and moods, politics and history", and "one of the greatest first films." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim McBride, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Representative Works

The Big Easy
The Big Easy
6.2
/ English
Breathless
Breathless
5.9
/ English
Last Embrace
Last Embrace
5.4
/ English
Blood Ties
Blood Ties
4.9
/ English
Uncovered
Uncovered
5.6
/ English
Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul
Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul
No Rating Yet
/ Portuguese
The Wrong Man
The Wrong Man
5.1
/ English
The Informant
The Informant
6.6
/ English
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation
7.0
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

The Big Easy
1986Nominee

Best Director

The Big Easy

Breathless
1983Nominee

Best Writing

Breathless

Great Balls of Fire!
1989Nominee

Best Writing

Great Balls of Fire!

Career Highlights

Last Embrace
1979Highlight

Best Performance

Last Embrace

The Beaches of Agnès
2008Highlight

Best Performance

The Beaches of Agnès