Cannes 2013: Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska' is very minor Payne (but still a pleasure). Plus, my Palme d'Or prediction 'The Artist' wins big at the Directors Guild Awards Toronto: 'The Descendants ...

Payne's latest, the acclaimed “The Holdovers,” started, years ago, with an old film. The 62-year-old, Omaha, Nebraska-based director caught a restoration of the 1935 French comedy “Merlusse." ...

“Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film,” a compilation of author-journalist Leo Adam Biga’s decade-and-a-half of reporting on the director and his work, is a comprehensive look at one of ...

Alexander Payne's first feature, "Citizen Ruth," was a scathing satire of abortion politics that took on pro-life and pro-choice shibboleths with equal amounts of skepticism and well-aimed bile ...

While Payne grew up in Nebraska, filming his newest movie in Massachusetts led him to fall in love with Bostonians. "I began to call them Eastern Midwesterners,” he said.

Alexander Payne is voting for his "Election" (1999) sequel to get a theatrical release, despite it being set up at streamer Paramount+. While discussing the followup film "Tracy Flick Can't Win ...

Alexander Payne ('The Holdovers' director): 'The gods would curse me if I asked for more.' He places star Paul Giamatti in the same class as Meryl Streep, Gene Hackman and Laurence Olivier in ...

“Throughout my career, I’ve been blessed to work with wonderful people,” says Alexander Payne. The 60-year-old filmmaker is best known for his dark comedies like Election (1999), Sideways ...

Alexander Payne told UNL graduates on Saturday that his parents pushed him to become a lawyer. He became an Oscar-winning filmmaker instead. MATT DIXON/THE WORLD-HERALD ...

Director Alexander Payne poses for a portrait to promote the film "The Holdovers" on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP) Gift this article ...