Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne, the award-winning director of "Nebraska" and "The Descendants", is set to hit the road to direct the Norwegian travel tale "My Saga". Payne was handpicked for this job by Bona Fide Productions’ Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, with whom...

The 2015 Munich Film Festival will be honoring the great Alexander Payne with a retrospective showcasing every single movie of the director's career. Payne was previously honored at the film festival in 1997 with the High Hopes Award for his feature...

For Alexander Payne, 2015 has brought a lot of stellar developments for his latest film "Downsizing", scheduled to go into production in early 2016. Today, Annapurna Pictures, the company that co-produced critically and commercially successful movies such as "American Hustle," "Her"...

Academy Award winner Alexander Payne is onto his next project and his film has also locked in an impressive lead. Hot off the heels of "Nebraska," the Greek-American filmmaker worked with his "Sideways" screenwriting partner, Jim Taylor, on the upcoming...

It's hard to believe it's been ten years since Greek-American filmmaker Alexander Payne won his first Oscar for adapting the screenplay to 2004's "Sideways." A decade after the film hit theaters, 20th Century Fox is celebrating with a special...

Ten years after the wine-infused hit "Sideways" had viewers reaching for the nearest bottle of Pinot Noir, the film's director, Greek-American Alexander Payne, and its star Paul Giamatti, celebrated at a California charity benefit this week. At the ranch of the winemaker...

Like anyone else who is Greek American, some peoples’ names don’t immediately give them away as being of Greek heritage. There are many prominent Greek American celebrities who you might not have guessed are Greek. They are talented, philanthropic,...

Before Alexander Payne was winning Oscars for "The Descendants" and "Sideways," the Greek-American filmmaker honed his talents at UCLA Film School, where he made a 15-minute short, "Carmen," that recently hit the internet. Made in 1985, "Carmen" is one of Payne's...

Upon hearing of Greeks and Oscars, the first name that comes to one’s mind is the name of famous Greek actress Katina Paxinou. In 1943, Paxinou was the first Greek to have brought home a little golden statuette for...

Greek-American filmmaker Alexander Payne will be taking part in Film Independent's Directors Close-Up in Los Angeles, Calif. The event, which runs once a week from February 11-March 12, offers filmmakers and film lovers the chance to hear directly from the best...