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Draft screenplay for Call me by your name, 2015 February 9 : photocopy typescript.

BIB_ID
454048
Accession number
MA 23841.5
Creator
Ivory, James, author.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2018.
Description
1 item (106 numbered pages; 67 unnumbered) ; 28 x 22.1 cm
Notes
Title page reads: Call Me by Your Name / Screenplay by / James Ivory / & / Luca Guadagnino / Based on the novel by / André Aciman, February 9, 2015.
Improvised red paper covers (made from a file folder).
The screenplay for Call Me By Your Name was adapted by James Ivory from the novel of the same title by André Aciman. The film was directed by Luca Guadagnino and produced by Guadagnino, Ivory, and Emile Georges, and starred Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer. The screenplay won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making Ivory at 89 the oldest winner of a competitive Oscar in the Academy's history.
Part of a collection of film director James Ivory's heavily annotated shooting scripts, editing notebooks, and small scripts. Each of the thirty-one films he directed for Merchant Ivory Productions is represented in the collection, beginning with the production company's first film, The Householder (1963), and including, among others, The Europeans (1979), A Room with A View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), The Golden Bowl (2000), and The City of Your Final Destination (2010). The collection also includes two films directed by Ivory's partner, Ismail Merchant (In Custody (1994) and The Mystic Masseur (2002)). Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on title page in Ivory's hand: My script sent from [unreadable] after typing, with my corrections. 2015.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Screenplay draft for "Call Me By Your Name," with James Ivory's corrections to the typist.