Jim Sheridan

 ( 1949 Births ) 

In 1981, Sheridan emigrated to Canada, but eventually settled in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City in the United States. He enrolled in the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and became the artistic director of the Irish Arts Center.

Sheridan returned to Ireland in the late 1980s. In 1989, he directed My Left Foot (with Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker), which became a critical and commercial success and won Day-Lewis and Fricker Academy Awards. He followed that with The Field (with Richard Harris) in 1990; then with In the Name of the Father in 1993, a fictionalised re-telling of the case of the Guildford Four. The film won the Golden Bear at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1996 he co-wrote Some Mother's Son with Terry George. The Boxer was nominated for a Golden Globe for best film drama in 1997. The film was Sheridan's third collaboration with Day-Lewis after My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, making him the only director to work with Day-Lewis on three films. In 2003, he released the semi-autobiographical In America, which tells the story of a family of Irish immigrants trying to succeed in New York. The film received positive reviews and earned Samantha Morton and Djimon Hounsou Academy Award nominations. In 2005 he released Get Rich or Die Tryin', a film starring rap star 50 Cent.

Sheridan directed the 2009 film Brothers, starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman, which was shot in New Mexico. He also directed the thriller Dream House, which starred Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, and Rachel Weisz.

Executive producer

• Borstal Boy (2000)
• On the Edge (2001)
• Bloody Sunday (2002)
• Where's Daddy! (2006) (Short film)
• Dollhouse (2012)
• Omar Sharif's Tribute (2015) (Documentary)
• Shelter Me: Apollo House (2018) (Documentary)
• First Disco (2019) (Short film)

Acting credits

• "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart" by Sinéad O'Connor (1994)

• Best Adapted Screenplay – My Left Foot (1990), nomination (as co-writer)
• Best Director – My Left Foot (1990), nomination (as director)
• Best Adapted Screenplay – In the Name of the Father (1994), nomination (as co-writer)
• Best Director – In the Name of the Father (1994), nomination (as director)
• Best Picture – In the Name of the Father (1994), nomination (as producer)
• Best Original Screenplay – In America (2004), nomination (as co-writer)

Berlin International Film Festival

• 1994, Golden Bear – In the Name of the Father, winner
• 1998, Golden Bear – The Boxer, nomination

British Academy Film Awards

• Best Adapted Screenplay – My Left Foot (1990), nomination (as co-writer)
• Best Adapted Screenplay – In the Name of the Father (1993), nomination (as co-writer)

European Film Awards

• European Director of the Year – My Left Foot (1989), nomination

Golden Globe Awards

• Best Director – The Boxer (1997), nomination
• Best Screenplay – In America (2002), nomination (as co-writer)

Gregory Peck Award

• Lifetime Achievement - Dingle International Film Festival (2009)

Independent Spirit Awards

• Best Director – In America (2002), nomination
• Best Director - Brothers (2009), winner
• Lifetime Achievement Award - (2015), Winner
• Best Director - The Secret Scripture (2016), nomination

National Board of Review

• Best Original Screenplay – In America (2002), winner (as co-writer)

Writers Guild of America

• Best Original Screenplay – In America (2002), nomination (as co-writer)

Awards and nominations received by Sheridan's features

• List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Ireland

• Jim Sheridan's official website
• Jim Sheridan's official website - Hell's Kitchen Limited
• Jim Sheridan Bibliography (via UC Berkeley)