Allison Anders

Quick Facts

Full Name	Allison Anders
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	Nov 16, 1954(1954-11-16)
Age	70
Birthplace	Ashland
Country	United States
Birth City	Kentucky
Horoscope	Scorpio

Allison Anders Biography

Allison Anders is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on November 16, 1954 in Ashland, Kentucky, United States. She is a screenwriter, director, producer, best known for her independent films, including 1992’s Gas, Food Lodging. In 2013, she was nominated to the Emmy Award for her TV movie Ring of Fire, about the love story between Screenwriter, director, and producer most known for her independent films including 1992’s Gas, Food Lodging. She was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2013 for directing the TV movie Ring of Fire about the love affair between Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. & June Carter Cash.

Since the 1980s, she has been friends with Duran Duran’s lead singer, She has been friends with the band Duran Duran, including lead singer, Simon LeBon, since the 1980s..

In the late 1980s, Anders had become friends with members of pop group Duran Duran, and frequently inserted small references to the band in her films (character names, posters on walls, and so on). In 1999, after bassist John Taylor had left Duran Duran and was beginning to launch an acting career, she and Voss co-wrote and co-directed Sugar Town, about the Los Angeles film and music industry. The film starred several musical friends of Anders’, including Taylor, X singer John Doe, Spandau Ballet bassist Martin Kemp, and singer/actor Michael Des Barres. Sugar Town followed the interconnected lives of a handful of power brokers, wanna-bes and has-beens. Gwen (played by Jade Gordon), a self-centered would-be rock star, is working as an assistant to production designer Liz (Ally Sheedy); when Gwen discovers Liz has a date with a music producer (Larry Klein), any loyalty she has to her boss disappears. The film received two Independent Spirit Award nominations, for Best Film and Best Newcomer (Jade Gordon). The film also won Anders and Voss the Fantasporto award for Best Screenplay.

In 1986, Anders won a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for a script called Lost Highway that she wrote about her father. She said that after writing the script she shared it with her father, and was able to have a relationship with him again.

When she was four years of age, her father left her and her siblings.

Allison Anders Net Worth

Allison Anders is one of the richest Screenwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Allison Anders 's net worth $2 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

UCLA Film School was her first choice.

At the age of 15, she suffered a severe mental breakdown that required her to be admitted to hospital. Since then, she has been able to recover.

Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American independent film director whose films include Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca and Grace of My Heart. Anders has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate Kurt Voss and has also worked as a television director. Anders’ films have been shown at the Cannes International Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant as well as a Peabody Award.

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Anders’ 1996 film, Grace of My Heart, was a musical drama executive produced by Martin Scorsese, about a songwriter (played by Illeana Douglas) and her career over several years, including work in the early 1960s in music publishing and production offices, a setting based on the Brill Building. This marriage to a songwriting partner and her emergence as a singer-songwriter in the 1970s are among elements paralleling the career of Carole King, but the film is neither a biography nor entirely fiction. The original soundtrack features new songs written in various styles of the era. Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach had their first collaboration composing a song for the film, “God Give Me Strength,” and were nominated for a Grammy Award.

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Allison Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Allison Anders celebrates birthday on November 16 of every year.

Her 2001 autobiographical film, Things Behind the Sun, deals with the long- term aftermath of rape. It was released on the Showtime cable TV network. The film earned an Emmy nomination for actor Don Cheadle as Best Supporting Actor; and three Independent Spirit Award nominations: Cheadle for Best Supporting Actor, Kim Dickens for Best Actress, and Best Film. Anders and co-writer Kurt Voss also received a nomination for an Edgar Award. The film was awarded the SHINE Award as well as the Peabody Award. Things Behind the Sun was inspired by an experience Anders had in 1967 when she was raped by group of boys. Anders actually shot some of the film in the same location in Cocoa Beach, Florida, where the gang rape occurred.