Jim Sheridan (b. February 6th, 1949)
Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan emulated his stage-director father by working in Dublin-based children's theater, then with the "alternate theater" Project Art Centre, an organization Sheridan co-founded. He left the Centre over a dispute concerning a gay-themed production, then moved to New York, where he briefly enrolled in the N.Y.U. film school and served as artistic director of the Irish Arts Center. With his movie directorial debut, the Oscar-nominated My Left Foot (1989), Sheridan inaugurated a harmonious working relationship with Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis, which has yielded such excellent projects as In the Name of the Father (1993). One of Sheridan's most ambitious film projects has been Into the West (1992), a child's-eye-view affair that juggles reality and fantasy with dizzying expertise. Hal Erickson
Awards & Nominations
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Director in The Boxer |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Screenplay in In America |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay in My Left Foot |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay in In the Name of the Father |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Director in My Left Foot |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Director in In the Name of the Father |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Original Screenplay in In America |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Picture in In the Name of the Father |
| Writers Guild of America award nominee for Best Original Screenplay in In America |
1997 
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