Producer · Actor · Director · 1936 to 2005

Ismail Merchant

Best rated (producing): Maurice (7.6)

Producing films: 32
Producing avg: 6.09
Peak run: 1987’93
7+ run: 2 films

Producing films: 32
Producing avg: 6.09
Peak run: 1987’93
7+ run: 2 films

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Producing films, by TMDB rating

The career

Ismail Merchant, producing career by TMDB rating5-film averagePeak eraLongest 7+ run

Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.

Ismail Merchant's career barcodecoolhot

196132 films2005

Current formLast 5: 5.85 vs career 6.09 (−0.24)

As a producer, films with 25+ votes

Ismail by the numbers

Average

6.09

16 rated films

Vote weighted

6.23

bigger films count more

Median

6.0

half are better

Consistency

±0.79

rating spread

Career

45y

1961 to 2005

Total votes

4.7K

across every film

Best

7.6

Maurice

Worst

4.9

Le Divorce

Newest first

Filmography

Producing filmography

2005	The White Countess	6.2	88
2005	Heights	6.3	46
2003	Thank You, Doctor Rey	·	8
2003	Le Divorce	4.9	174
2000	The Golden Bowl	6.0	72
1998	A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries	·	24
1996	Surviving Picasso	5.8	109
1995	Feast of July	·	12
1995	Jefferson in Paris	5.1	50
1993	The Remains of the Day	7.4	1,559
1992	Howards End	7.0	613
1991	The Ballad of the Sad Cafe	·	14
1990	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge	6.1	82
1989	Slaves of New York	·	17
1988	The Deceivers	5.2	35
1988	The Perfect Murder	·	9
1987	Maurice	7.6	637
1986	My Little Girl	·	10
1986	A Room with a View	6.9	866
1984	The Bostonians	5.5	51

Better together?

Ismail Merchant's regulars

The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.

Films together: Ismail Merchant and Richard Robbins movies · Ismail Merchant and Om Puri movies · Ismail Merchant and Zakir Hussain movies · Ismail Merchant and Larry Pizer movies

Takes

On Ismail Merchant

4 nominations, 0 wins

Awards record

Best Picture · Academy Awards 1994
Mike Nichols, John Calley and Ismail Merchant, Producers
Nominated
Best Picture · Academy Awards 1993
Ismail Merchant, Producer
Nominated
Best Picture · Academy Awards 1987
Ismail Merchant, Producer
Nominated
Best Live Action Short · Academy Awards 1961
Charles F. Schwep and Ismail Merchant, Producers
Nominated