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Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne (born 1961) is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven comedies and dramas such as Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska and Downsizing.

Two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay (Sideways, The Descendants). Studied at Stanford University and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Alexander Payne is a director-screenwriter known for dry, character-driven comedies and dramas that mix bitterness and tenderness. DeBaser reviews highlight recurring themes: family, aging, ordinary people and moral ambiguity. His films often balance gentle cynicism with humane performances and precise cinematography.

For:Fans of character-driven, bittersweet comedies and dramas; cinephiles who prefer human stories over spectacle.

 Alexander Payne has never been the kind of director cinephiles foam at the mouth for.

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 Alexander Payne did a great job.

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 The film is poetic and profound, managing to strike the viewer with good moments of flat everyday life alternated with dramatic events and cases of pure schizophrenia.

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