Screenplay, and USC Scripter Award for Best Screenplay. He was also nominated for the AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay, and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay. At 89, Ivory is the oldest person to ever win an Academy Award in competition. Bibliography Ivory, James. Solid Ivory: Memoirs. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. --do.-- Autobiography of a Princess: also being the adventures of an American film director in the land of the maharajahs; screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. London: John Murray, 1975 ISBN 0-7195-3289-2 See also List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees List of LGBTQ Academy Award winners and nominees References External links IMP Poster Gallery James Ivory at Screen Online Biography from Merchant Ivory Productions Guide to the James Ivory papers at the University of Oregon Living people 1928 births American film producers American male screenwriters Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners Best Adapted Screenplay BAFTA Award winners Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres David di Donatello winners Film directors from California Film directors from Oregon Filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award LGBT film directors LGBT people from California LGBT people from Oregon LGBT producers American LGBT screenwriters People from Klamath Falls, Oregon Screenwriters from California University of Oregon alumni USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni Writers from Berkeley, California Writers from Oregon Writers Guild of America Award winners