John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film
director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He is known for writing and directing John Sayles
the films The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Matewan (1987), Eight Men Out
(1988), Passion Fish (1992), The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), Lone Star (1996), and
Men with Guns (1997).

For Eight Men Out, Sayles was nominated for the USC Scripter Award. He has twice
been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for Passion Fish
and Lone Star. At the 56th Golden Globe Awards, Men with Guns was nominated for the
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His directorial debut, Return of
the Secaucus 7 (1980), as well as Matewan were added to the United States National
Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1997 and 2023, respectively.

Early life Sayles in March 2008

Sayles was born on September 28, 1950, in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary Born John Thomas Sayles
(née Rausch), a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator.[1] Both of September 28, 1950
Sayles's parents were Catholic and of half-Irish descent. Sayles has referred to himself as Schenectady, New York, United
a "Catholic atheist".[2] He attended Williams College with frequent collaborators Gordon States
Clapp and David Strathairn, as well as his longtime partner, Maggie Renzi. Sayles Education Williams College
earned a B.A. in psychology in 1972.[3] Occupations Director · screenwriter · editor ·
actor · novelist
Years active 1971–present
Career
After college, Sayles moved to Boston where he worked a variety of blue-collar jobs while writing short stories for The Atlantic.[3] These
writings culminated in his first novel, The Pride of the Bimbos, published in 1975.

Like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, Sayles began his film career working with Roger Corman. He was discovered by Frances
Doel. Sayles has been called "the greatest screenwriter to ever work at New World."[4]

Directorial debut
In 1979, Sayles used $30,000 he earned writing scripts for Corman to fund his first film, Return of the Secaucus 7.[5] To make the film on a
limited budget, he set the film in a large house so that he did not have to travel to or get permits for different locations, set the story over a
three-day weekend to limit costume changes, and wrote about people his age so he could cast his friends in it. The film received near-
unanimous critical acclaim at the time and has held its reputation. In November 1997, the National Film Preservation Board announced that
Return of the Secaucus 7 would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of
Congress.

In 1983, after the films Baby It's You (starring Rosanna Arquette) and Lianna (a story in which a married woman becomes discontented
with her marriage and falls in love with another woman), Sayles received a MacArthur Fellowship. He put the money into the science
fiction feature The Brother from Another Planet,[6] a film about a three-toed humanoid who escapes bondage on another world and crash-
lands in New York harbor; because he is Africanoid in appearance, he finds himself at home among the people of Harlem, being pursued by
European-looking alien enslavers men in black.

In 1989, Sayles created and wrote the pilot episode for the short-lived television show Shannon's Deal about a down-and-out Philadelphia
lawyer played by Jamey Sheridan. Sayles received a 1990 Edgar Award for his teleplay for the pilot. The show ran for 16 episodes before
being cancelled in 1991.

Sayles has funded most of his films by writing genre scripts, such as Piranha, Alligator, The Howling, and The Challenge.[7] Having
collaborated with Joe Dante on Piranha and The Howling, Sayles acted in Dante's movie, Matinee. Sayles gets the rest of his funding by
working as a script doctor; he did rewrites for Apollo 13[8] and Mimic.

A genre script, called Night Skies, inspired what would eventually become the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[9] That film's director, Steven
Spielberg, later commissioned Sayles to write a script (unused) for the fourth Jurassic Park film.
 He has written and directed his own films, including Lone Star, Passion Fish, Eight Men Out, The
Secret of Roan Inish, and Matewan. He serves on the advisory board for the Austin Film Society.[10]
Maggie Renzi has been John Sayles's long-time companion (and collaborator), but they have not
married. Renzi has produced most of his films since Lianna. They met as students at Williams
College.

Sayles works with a regular repertory of actors, most notably Chris Cooper, David Strathairn, and
Gordon Clapp, each of whom has appeared in at least four of his films.

Sayles at the Miami Book Fair In early 2003, Sayles signed the Not In Our Name "Statement of Conscience" (along with Noam
International, 2011 Chomsky, Steve Earle, Brian Eno, Jesse Jackson, Viggo Mortensen, Bonnie Raitt, Oliver Stone,
Marisa Tomei, Susan Sarandon and others) which opposed the invasion of Iraq.[11]

In February 2009, Sayles was reported to be writing an HBO series based on the early life of Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
The drama, tentatively titled Scar Tissue, centers on Kiedis's early years living in West Hollywood with his father. At that time, Kiedis's
father, known as Spider, sold drugs (according to legend, his clients included The Who and Led Zeppelin) and mingled with rock stars on
the Sunset Strip, all while aspiring to get into show business.[12]

In February 2010, Sayles began shooting his 17th feature film, the historical war drama Amigo, in the Philippines. The film is a fictional
account of events during the Philippine–American War, with a cast that includes Joel Torre, Chris Cooper, and Garret Dillahunt.[13]

His novel A Moment in the Sun, set during the same period as Amigo, in the Philippines, Cuba, and the U.S., was released in 2011 by
McSweeney's. It includes an account of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 in North Carolina, the only coup d'état in United States
history in which a duly elected government was overthrown.[14]

Legacy and honors

1983 MacArthur Fellowship
1990 Edgar Award, for teleplay for pilot of Shannon's Deal
 In June 2014, Sayles donated his non-film archive to the University of Michigan. It will be accessible at the Harlan Hatcher
Graduate Library. Sayles's film archive is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[15]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Director Writer Editor

1978 Piranha No Yes No

1979 The Lady in Red No Yes No

Return of the Secaucus 7 Yes Yes Yes

1980 Battle Beyond the Stars No Yes No

Alligator No Yes No
1981 The Howling No Yes No

1982 The Challenge No Yes No

Lianna Yes Yes Yes

1983 Baby It's You Yes Yes No

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute No Yes No

1984 The Brother from Another Planet Yes Yes Yes

1986 The Clan of the Cave Bear No Yes No

Wild Thing No Yes No

1987
Matewan Yes Yes No
1988 Eight Men Out Yes Yes No

1989 Breaking In No Yes No

1991 City of Hope Yes Yes Yes

1992 Passion Fish Yes Yes Yes

The Secret of Roan Inish Yes Yes Yes

1994
Men of War No Yes No
1995 Apollo 13 No Uncredited No

1996 Lone Star Yes Yes Yes

1997 Men with Guns Yes Yes Yes

1999 Limbo Yes Yes Yes

2002 Sunshine State Yes Yes Yes

2003 Casa de los babys Yes Yes Yes

2004 Silver City Yes Yes Yes

2007 Honeydripper Yes Yes Yes

2008 The Spiderwick Chronicles No Yes No

2010 Amigo Yes Yes Yes

2013 Go for Sisters Yes Yes Yes

2018 The Devil's Highway No Yes No

Acting roles

Year Title Role

1980 Return of the Secaucus 7 Howie

1983 Lianna Jerry

1984 The Brother from Another Planet Man in Black #2

1986 Something Wild Motorcycle Cop

1987 Matewan Hardshell Preacher

1988 Eight Men Out Ring Lardner

 1991 City of Hope Carl
1992 Passion Fish Soap Doctor

1993 Matinee Bob

1996 Gridlock'd Cop

2009 In the Electric Mist Michael Goldman

2012 The Normals Dr. Marx

Television
A Perfect Match (1980)
Unnatural Causes (1986) (television film)
Shannon's Deal (1989) (television series; also creator)
The Alienist (2018) (television series)

Bibliography

Novels
Pride of the Bimbos (1975) (novel)
Union Dues (1977) (novel)
Los Gusanos (1991) (novel)
A Moment in the Sun (2011) (novel)
Yellow Earth (2020) (novel)[16]
Jamie MacGillivray (2023) (novel)[17]

Collections and non-fiction

The Anarchists' Convention (1979) (short story collection)
Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie "Matewan" (1987) (non-fiction)
Dillinger in Hollywood (2004) (short story collection)

Music videos
Bruce Springsteen – "Born in the U.S.A."[18]
Bruce Springsteen – "I'm on Fire"[19]
Bruce Springsteen – "Glory Days"

Awards/nominations

Films
Awards for Honeydripper:

Outstanding Independent or Foreign Film (Win) – 2008 NAACP Image Award[20]

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television) (Nominated) – John Sayles – 2008 NAACP Image
Awards[20]
Top 10 Independent Films of 2007 – National Board of Review of Motion Pictures[21]
Best Screenplay (Win) – John Sayles – 2007 San Sebastián International Film Festival (Tied with Gracia Querejeta and
David Planell for Siete mesas de billar francés (2007))[22]
Award for Silver City:

Golden Seashell Award for Best Film (Nominated) – John Sayles – 2004 San Sebastián International Film Festival[23]
Awards for Sunshine State:

Golden Orange Award (Win) – John Sayles – 2002 Florida Film Critics Circle Awards[24]
Special Mention For Excellence In Filmmaking (Win) – 2002 National Board of Review[25]
Awards for Limbo:

Best Director Golden Space Needle Award (Win) – John Sayles −1999 Seattle International Film Festival[26]
Outstanding Indies (Win) – 1999 National Board of Review[27]
Awards for Men with Guns/Hombres armados:

Best Foreign Independent Film (Nominated) – 1998 British Independent Film Awards[28]
Best Foreign Film (Nominated) – 1999 Golden Globes[29]
Peace Award (Nominated) – 1998 Political Film Society[30]
FIPRESCI Prize (Win) – John Sayles – 1997 San Sebastián International Film Festival
OCIC Award (Win) – John Sayles – 1997 San Sebastián International Film Festival
Solidarity Award (Win) – John Sayles – 1997 San Sebastián International Film Festival
Golden Seashell Award for Best Film (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1997 San Sebastián International Film Festival
Awards for Lone Star:

Best Original Screenplay (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1997 Academy Awards[31]

Best Original Screenplay (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1997 BAFTA Awards[32]
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1997 Golden Globes
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1997 Writers Guild of America Award
Best Picture (Nominated) – 1997 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Motion Picture Original Screenplay (Win) – John Sayles – 1997 Golden Satellite Awards
Best Motion Picture – Drama (Nominated) – Maggie Renzi & R. Paul Miller – 1997 Golden Satellite Awards
Best Screenplay (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1997 Independent Spirit Awards
Best Film (Win) – Lone Star – 1996 Lone Star Film & Television Awards
Best Director (Win) – John Sayles – 1996 Lone Star Film & Television Awards
Best Screenplay (Win) – John Sayles – 1996 Lone Star Film & Television Awards
Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Feature Film (Win) – 1996 NCLR Bravo Awards
Best Director (Win) – John Sayles – 1997 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
Awards for The Secret of Roan Inish:

Best Genre Video Release (Nominated) – 1996 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
International Critics Award (Win) – John Sayles – 1996 Gérardmer Film Festival
Best Director (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1996 Independent Spirit Awards
Best Screenplay (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1996 Independent Spirit Awards
Awards for Passion Fish:

Best Original Screenplay (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1993 Academy Awards[33]

Golden Spur Award (Win) – John Sayles – 1993 Flanders International Film Festival
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1993 Writers Guild of America
Awards for City of Hope:

Critics Award (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1991 Deauville American Film Festival
Special Award, Democracy Award (Win) – 1992 Political Film Society[30]
Tokyo Grand Prix Award (Win) – John Sayles – 1991 Tokyo International Film Festival
Awards for Matewan:

Critics Award (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1987 Deauville American Film Festival
Best Director (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1988 Independent Spirit Awards
Best Screenplay (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1988 Independent Spirit Award
Human Rights Award (Win) – 1988 Political Film Society[30]
Awards for The Brother from Another Planet:

Best Screenplay Caixa de Catalunya Award (Win) – John Sayles – 1984 Catalan International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1985 USA Film Festival (later became the Sundance Film
Festival)
Awards for Return of the Secaucus 7:

Best Independent Film (Win) – 1981 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Screenplay (Win) – John Sayles – 1980 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
 National Film Registry – 1997 Library of Congress, National Film Preservation Board
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1981 Writers Guild of America
Best Screenplay (Nominated) – John Sayles – 1980 New York Film Critics Circle
Second Place – 1981 US Film Festival (later became the Sundance Film Festival)

Other recognition
Sayles's first published story, "I-80 Nebraska", won an O. Henry Award; his novel, Union Dues, was nominated for a National Book Award
as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.

In 1983,[34] Sayles received the John D. MacArthur Award, given to 20 Americans in diverse fields each year for their innovative work. He
has also been the recipient of the Eugene V. Debs Award, the John Steinbeck Award and the John Cassavetes Award. He was honored with
the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Writers Guild of America (1999).

Recurring collaborators
Actors who have regularly worked with Sayles include Maggie Renzi, David Strathairn, Joe Morton, Chris Cooper, Mary McDonnell,
Vincent Spano, Kevin Tighe, Josh Mostel, Tom Wright, Gordon Clapp and Angela Bassett.[35]
 1980 1983 1984 1987 1988 1991 1992 1994 1996 1997 1999 2002 2003 2004 2007 2010 2013

The Brother from Another Planet

Return of the Secaucus 7

The Secret of Roan Inish

Work

Casa de los Babys

Actor

Sunshine State
Men with Guns
Eight Men Out

Go for Sisters
Honeydripper
Baby It's You

Passion Fish
City of Hope

Silver City
Lone Star
Matewan
Lianna

Amigo
Limbo
Jace
Alexander

Eliot Asinof

Angela
Bassett
Jesse
Borrego

Leo
Burmester
Gordon
Clapp

Bill Cobbs

Chris
Cooper

Liane
Alexandra
Curtis
Vondie
Curtis-Hall

Richard
Edson
Miguel
Ferrer

Kathryn
Grody
Lisa Gay
Hamilton

Daryl
Hannah
Clifton
James

Kris
Kristofferson

Perry Lang

Susan Lynch

Vanessa
Martinez
Mary
McDonnell

Sam
McMurray

Joe Morton

Josh Mostel

Bill
Raymond
 Maggie
Renzi

John Sayles

Vincent
Spano

Mary
Steenburgen
Fisher
Stevens

David
Strathairn

Kevin Tighe

Ralph Waite

Tom Wright

See also
Night Skies – for a more complete history of how the proposed Close Encounters of the Third Kind sequel became the E.T.
the Extra-Terrestrial story

Further reading
Diane Carson and Heidi Kenaga, eds., Sayles Talk: New Perspectives on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles, Wayne
State University Press, 2006
John Sayles, Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan, Da Capo Press, 2003

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External links
Official site (https://web.archive.org/web/20230204093051/http://johnsaylesblog.com/) (via archive.org)
John Sayles (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000626/) at IMDb
Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database (https://web.archive.org/web/20100402105203/http://archive.senseso
fcinema.com/contents/directors/04/sayles.html)
Interview April 2007 by Cathy Pryor in the London Independent (http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article249
4608.ece)
The Rumpus interview (http://therumpus.net/2011/05/the-rumpus-interview-with-john-sayles/) Archived (https://web.archiv
e.org/web/20110523064837/http://therumpus.net/2011/05/the-rumpus-interview-with-john-sayles/) May 23, 2011, at the
Wayback Machine
Return of the Independent: Sayles on Sayles (5-part interview) (http://www.siffblog.com/other/return_of_the_independent_s
ayles_on_sayles_003909.html) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20070909072404/http://www.siffblog.com/other/retur
n_of_the_independent_sayles_on_sayles_003909.html) September 9, 2007, at the Wayback Machine from siffblog.com
Cinema of Bread and Roses: An Interview with Maggie Renzi and John Sayles (https://filmmakermagazine.com/123934-int
erview-maggie-renzi-john-sayles/) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20231220040915/https://filmmakermagazine.com/
123934-interview-maggie-renzi-john-sayles/) December 20, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, Filmmaker, December 18,
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