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James Francis Ivory (born June 7 , 1928 ) is an award-winning American Film Director , best known for the results of his long Collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions , which included both Indian-born Producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala . Their films won six Academy Awards . BACKGROUND Ivory was born in '' in 1957 as one of the ten best non-theatrical films of the year. MERCHANT IVORY PRODUCTIONS In 1961, Ivory created the film production company, '' Merchant Ivory Productions '', with Indian-born Producer Ismail Merchant and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala who served as the screenwriter for many of their productions. Until Merchant's death in 2005, the company produced a number of award winning films. Of this collaboration, Ismail Merchant once commented: "IT IS a strange marriage we have at Merchant Ivory...I am an Indian Muslim, Ruth is a German Jew, and Jim is a Protestant American. Someone once described us as a three-headed god. Maybe they should have called us a three-headed monster!" {Link without Title} . Merchant was also Ivory's long-term Gay partner. Their professional and romantic partnership lasted from the early 1960s until Merchant's death in 2005 {Link without Title} . ACCOLADES In 1985 '' A Room With A View '', based on the E. M. Forster novel, was nominated for eight Academy Awards , including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, for Jhabvala’s adaptation of Forster’s novel as well as for Best Costume and Best Production Design. ''A Room With a View'' was also voted Best Film of the year by the Critic’s Circle Film Section Of Great Britain , the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts , the National Board Of Review in the United States and in Italy, where the film won the Donatello Prize for Best Foreign Language Picture and Best Director. In 1987 , '' Maurice '' received a Silver Lion Award for Best director at the Venice Film Festival as well as Best Film Score for Richard Robbins and Best Actor Awards for co-stars James Wilby and Hugh Grant . This was followed in 1990 by '' Mr. And Mrs. Bridge '', which was adapted by Ruth Jhabvala from the novels by Evan S. Connell . This film received an Oscar nomination for best Actress ( Joanne Woodward ), as well as Best Actress and Best Screenplay from the New York Film Critics Circle . In ), Best Screenplay - Adaptation ( Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ), and Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Luciana Arrighi/Ian Whittaker). The film also won Best Picture at the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards, as well as awards for Best Picture, Best Actress for Emma Thompson and Best Director for Ivory from the National Board Of Review . The Directors Guild Of America awarded the D.W. Griffith award, its highest honor, to Ivory for his work. FILMOGRAPHY
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