Jonathan Demme filmography explained

Jonathan Demme was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of film and television

Feature films

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
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1971	Angels Hard as They Come
1972	The Hot Box
1973	Black Mama White Mama
1974	Caged Heat
1975	Crazy Mama
1976	Fighting Mad
1977	Handle with Care				originally titled Citizens Band
1979	Last Embrace
1980	Melvin and Howard
1984	Swing Shift
1986	Something Wild
1987	Swimming to Cambodia
1988	Married to the Mob
1991	The Silence of the Lambs				Academy Award for Best Director^[1] BAFTA Award for Best Direction Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Director^[2]
1993	Philadelphia
1998	Beloved
2002	The Truth About Charlie
2004	The Manchurian Candidate
2008	Rachel Getting Married
2013	A Master Builder
2015	Ricki and the Flash

Executive producer Amos & Andrew (1993) (uncredited) Household Saints (1993) Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) Shadrach (1998) The Opportunists (1999) (2001) Crude Independence (2009) The Center (2015)

Producer Miami Blues (1990) Women & Men 2 (1991) That Thing You Do! (1996) Adaptation. (2002) Gimme the Loot (2012) Song One (2014)

Second unit director

• Fly Me (1972)
• The Hot Box (1972)

Documentary

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
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1984	Stop Making Sense
1987	Haiti: Dreams of Democracy
1992	Cousin Bobby
1994	The Complex Sessions
	One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room 1994^[3]
1996	Mandela
1998	Storefront Hitchcock
2003	The Agronomist				Also cinematographer
2006
2007	Man from Plains
	Right to Return: New Home Movies From the Lower 9th Ward^[4]
2009	Neil Young Trunk Show
2011	I'm Carolyn Parker^[5]				Also cinematographer
2012	Neil Young Journeys
	Enzo Avitabile Music Life^[6]
2015	What's Motivating Hayes^[7]				Short film
2016	Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids^[8]

Television

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
		width=65	Director	width=65		Writer	width=65	Producer
1978	Columbo				Episode "Murder Under Glass"
1980–86	Saturday Night Live^[9]				3 episodes
1982	American Playhouse				Episode "Who Am I This Time?"
1987	Trying Times				Episode "A Family Tree"
1997	Subway Stories				Segment "Subway Car from Hell"
2011	Enlightened				2 episodes
	A Gifted Man				Episode "Pilot"
2013–14	The Killing^[10]				2 episodes
2017	Shots Fired				Episode "Hour Six: The Fire This Time"
2018	Seven Seconds				Episode "Brenton's Breath" (Posthumous release)

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist
1979	"Gidget Goes to Hell"	Suburban Lawns
1985	"The Perfect Kiss"^[11]	New Order
1985	"Everybody's Young"	Sandra Bernhard
1987	"Solitude Standing"	Suzanne Vega
1988	"Away"	The Feelies^[12]
1995	"Murder Incorporated"	Bruce Springsteen

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	The Incredible Melting Man	Matt Winters
1979	Last Embrace	Man on Train
1985	Into the Night	Federal Agent
1996	That Thing You Do!	Producer of That Thing You Do! Director of Weekend At Party Pier
2000	Oz	Commercial Director
2015	I Thought I Told You to Shut Up	Narrator^[13]	Short documentary

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pristin. Terry. 'Silence of the Lambs' Sweeps 5 Major Oscars. Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. March 15, 2014. March 31, 1992.
2. Web site: Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director of 'Silence of the Lambs,' Dies at 73. April 26, 2017.
3. News: Jonathan Demme Biography & Filmography. Hollywood.com. April 27, 2017.
4. Book: Kapsis . Robert . Jonathan Demme:Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi . January 1, 2001 . xiv . introduction . 978-1-60473-118-7.
5. News: A Steely Fighter From the City That Care Forgot. New York Times. April 27, 2017.
6. Web site: Enzo Avitabile Music Life. RogerEbert.com. April 27, 2017.
7. Web site: What's Motivating Hayes. Mountainfilm.org. April 27, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170428142240/https://www.mountainfilm.org/media/what%E2%80%99s-motivating-hayes. April 28, 2017. dead.
8. News: Brent . Lang . Carmel . Dagan . Jonathan Demme, Silence of the Lambs director, dies at 73 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20170426185021/https://variety.com/2017/film/news/jonathan-demme-dead-silence-of-the-lambs-1202399122/ . live . April 26, 2017 . April 26, 2017 . April 26, 2017 .
9. Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director of 'Silence of the Lambs,' Dies at 73. The Hollywood Reporter. April 27, 2017.
10. News: The Killing gets it exactly right in season four, just in time to end. AV Club. April 27, 2017.
11. Web site: Jonathan Demme. https://web.archive.org/web/20160416093548/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba143d8d9. dead. April 16, 2016. BFI. April 27, 2017.
12. Web site: Lieberman. Josh. The Feelies at Maxwell's. The Paris Review. February 24, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303040509/http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/07/16/the-feelies-at-maxwells/. March 3, 2016. dead.
13. Web site: Jonathan Demme Narrates I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!!," a Short Film About the Counterculture Cartoon Reid Fleming. Open Culture. April 26, 2017. February 6, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124513/http://www.openculture.com/2017/04/jonathan-demme-narrates-i-thought-i-told-you-to-shut-up-a-short-film-about-the-counterculture-cartoon-reid-fleming.html. February 9, 2019. dead.