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[[File:ismailmerchant.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Ismail Merchant]]

==Country==

India

==Birth - Death==

1936 - 2005

==Occupation==

Entertainment

==Notable Achievements==

Academy Award, Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

==Description==

Film director, noted for Merchant-Ivory films which won six Academy Awards. His first short film, 'The Creation of Woman' (1961), was nominated for an Academy Award.  Personal partner was [[James Ivory]].  Author of several best-selling cookbooks on Indian cuisine along with books on filmmaking and his autobiography ' My Passage from India: A Filmmaker's Journey from Bombay to Hollywood and Beyond' (2018).  Notable films include 'A Room with a View', 'Howards End', 'Maurice', and 'The Remains of the Day'.  He was made an honorary fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts; he received the Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and in 2002 he received the Padma Bhusan from the Indian government, which is the equivalent of a knighthood.

==See Also==

* [[

==Further Reading/Research==

* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580337/
* https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/may/26/guardianobituaries.film
* https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/27/james-ivory-ismail-merchant-love-secret-call-me-by-your-name-nudity
* http://gayinfluence.blogspot.ca/2012/05/james-ivory-ismael-merchant.html

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