Jamie Uys
Birthday: 30 May 1921, Boksburg, South Africa
Birth Name: Johannes Jacobus Uys
Jamie Uys was an internationally acclaimed film director who completed 24 films. Prizes for his work included the 1981 Grand Prix at the Festival International du Film de Comedy Vevey for 'The Gods Must be Crazy' and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association award for best documentary in 1974 for 'Beautiful People' aka 'Anima...
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Jamie Uys was an internationally acclaimed film director who completed 24 films. Prizes for his work included the 1981 Grand Prix at the Festival International du Film de Comedy Vevey for 'The Gods Must be Crazy' and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association award for best documentary in 1974 for 'Beautiful People' aka 'Animals are Beautiful People'. 'The Gods Must be Crazy' enjoyed three years of uninterrupted screening in the United States. Show less «
[on messages in his films - or the lack thereof] It's just slapstick comedy, with no message. I've b...Show more »
[on messages in his films - or the lack thereof] It's just slapstick comedy, with no message. I've been making comedies most of my life, and I've never put a message in - it's bad for business. It's arrogant to put messages in. You rob your audiences of putting in their own messages. Show less «
Jamie Uys's FILMOGRAPHY
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Annabelle: Creation
IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...