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Ramin Bahrani
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In 2009, legendary film critic Roger Ebert declared "Ramin Bahrani is the new great American director.".
His parents were Iranian immigrants.
In the documentary,
Life Itself (2014)
,
Roger Ebert
gave Bahrani a jigsaw puzzle, with the instructions that one day, "You have to give it to someone else who deserves it." It once belonged to
Alfred Hitchcock
,
Marilyn Monroe
,
Lee Strasberg
&
Laura Dern
.
Subject of a 3 film retrospective at the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in March 2009 in New York City.
Recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Member of the 'Best Debut Feature' jury in the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009.
Member of the 'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) since 2016.
Named as "US Stars of Tomorrow" by Screen International, January 2006.
Subject of a retrospective at the Harvard Film Archives in April 2009.
Subject of a 2009 career retrospective at the International Film Festival of La Rochelle International in France.
Subject of a 2009 career retrospective at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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