on a Jane Austen story, was a box-office success, grossing more than $20 million worldwide against a production budget of $3 million. Favorite films In 2012, Stillman participated in the Sight & Sound film polls of that year. Held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary directors were asked to select ten films of their choice. The Awful Truth (USA, 1937) Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italy, 1958) The Gay Divorcee (USA, 1934) Howards End (UK, 1992) Miracle of Morgan's Creek (USA, 1943) The Shop Around the Corner (USA, 1940) Stolen Kisses (France, 1968) Stranger Than Paradise (USA, 1984) Strangers on a Train (USA, 1951) Wagon Master (USA, 1950) Filmography Film Television Awards & Nominations Honors and legacy 25-Year Wexner Center film retrospectiveThe Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University held a 25-year retrospective of the career and films of Stillman including his film titled Love & Friendship. At the time of the retrospective, Stillman was asked: "Your films all have a sort of costume drama sensibility, but without the costumes, and now you've made a costume drama, period dress and all." Stillman responded by stating that: "Love & Friendship doesn't loom as a costume drama, because it's a pretty funny comedy, so it's really not what you might anticipate. It's not Downton Abbey in any way, shape or form. There are a lot of very good English comic actors who have done the supporting parts and really shine. I love Jane Austen. I sort of wanted something of my own to work on between paid script writing assignments. It's good that I had so much time with no producer or studio executive wanting delivery quickly because it's an incredibly funny novella she wrote, but hard to read and hard to dramatize. It's an epistolary form from the 18th century and there are all these very funny ideas and lines buried within. It's kind of an inaccessible format and it was a long process of adaptation." Criterion Collection Release 'In April 2016, The Criterion Collection released a retrospective box set edition of Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco, available on Blu-ray and DVD. Stillman himself oversaw the digital transfers of the films and recorded audio commentaries along with members of the casts and crews. Bibliography Stillman wrote a novelization of The Last Days of Disco published by Farrar, Straus and