Editing Mira Nair (section)

===Feature films===
In 1983 with her friend [[Sooni Taraporevala]], Nair co-wrote ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''. Nair sought out real "street children" to more authentically portray the lives of children who survived in the streets and were deprived of a true childhood.<ref name="Applause Theater & Cinema Books"/> Though the film did not do well at the [[box office]], it won 23 international awards, including the Camera D’or and Prix du Public at the 1998 [[Cannes Film Festival]]. It was nominated at the 1989 [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Crossette |first=Barabara |date=23 December 1990 |title=Homeless and Hungry Youths of India |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DA1531F930A15751C1A966958260 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 October 2008 }}</ref>

Nair and Taraporevala next worked together on the 1991 film ''[[Mississippi Masala]],'' which told the story of Ugandan-born Indians displaced in [[Mississippi]].<ref name="Mira Nair"/> The film centers on a carpet-cleaner business owner ([[Denzel Washington]]) who falls in love with the daughter ([[Sarita Choudhury]]) of one of his Indian clients. The film revealed the prejudice in African-American and Indian communities. It was well received by critics, earned a standing ovation at the 1992 [[Sundance Film Festival]], and won three awards at the [[Venice Film Festival]].<ref name="voices.cla.umn.edu"/>

Nair went on to direct four more films before she produced ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]''. Released in 2001, the film told the story of a [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] Indian wedding, written by [[Sabrina Dhawan]]. Employing a small crew and casting some of Nair's acquaintances and relatives, the film grossed over $30 million worldwide. The film was awarded the [[Golden Lion]] award at the Venice Film Festival, making Nair the first female recipient of the award.<ref>{{cite news |last=Whitney |first=Anna |date=10 September 2001 |title=Indian director is first woman to win Golden Lion |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/indian-director-is-first-woman-to-win-golden-lion-9225222.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220515/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/indian-director-is-first-woman-to-win-golden-lion-9225222.html |archive-date=15 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |access-date=8 December 2009}}</ref> Nair then directed the Golden Globe-winning ''[[Hysterical Blindness (film)|Hysterical Blindness]]'' (2002), followed by making [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]'s epic ''[[Vanity Fair (2004 film)|Vanity Fair]]'' (2004).

In 2007, Nair was asked to direct ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', but turned it down to work on ''[[The Namesake (film)|The Namesake]]''.<ref name="Mira Nair"/> Based on the book by [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winner [[Jhumpa Lahiri]], Sooni Taraporevala's screenplay follows the son of Indian immigrants who wants to fit in with New York City society, but struggles to get away from his family's traditional ways. The film was presented with the Dartmouth Film Award and was also honored with the Pride of India award at the [[Bollywood Movie Awards]].<ref>{{cite news |date=23 April 2007 |title=Bollywood to honour Mira Nair with 'Pride of India' award |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a8b47023-270e-47f0-a6c2-399a750ab572& |newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]]|agency=Press Trust of India (PTI) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930055840/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a8b47023-270e-47f0-a6c2-399a750ab572& |archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=28 May 2007 |title=Mira Nair, Asha Parekh honoured at Bollywood awards in New York |url=http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/f825b92e19df636a/id/252152/cs/1/ |newspaper=Malaysia Sun |agency=Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207004720/http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/f825b92e19df636a/id/252152/cs/1/ |archive-date=7 February 2012 |access-date=8 December 2009}}</ref>

This was followed by the [[Amelia Earhart]] biopic ''[[Amelia (2009 film)|Amelia]]'' (2009), starring [[Hilary Swank]] and [[Richard Gere]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/114003628|website=NPR|title=Mira Nair, Discovering A Very Modern 'Amelia'|first=Melissa|last=Block|date=October 22, 2009|access-date=September 14, 2021}}</ref> The film received predominantly negative reviews.<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/amelia_2009/ " 'Amelia' Reviews, Pictures."] ''Rotten Tomatoes, IGN Entertainment''.</ref><ref>[https://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/amelia " 'Amelia' (2009): Reviews."] ''Metacritic''.</ref> It was also a [[box-office bomb]], grossing $19.6 million against a budget of $40 million.<ref>[https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=amelia.htm "Amelia."] ''Box Office Mojo,'' January 10, 2010.</ref>

In 2012, Nair directed ''[[The Reluctant Fundamentalist (film)|The Reluctant Fundamentalist]]'', a thriller based on the best-selling novel by Mohsin Hamid. It received mixed reviews from critics, and was a box office bomb, earning only $2.1&nbsp;million worldwide on a $15&nbsp;million budget.<ref name="New York Times budget">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/movies/mira-nair-on-the-reluctant-fundamentalist.html|title=Crossing Dangerous Borders: Mira Nair on 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=19 April 2013 |accessdate=12 October 2013|last1=Kaplan |first1=Fred }}</ref><ref name="film budget">{{cite web|url=http://gulfnews.com/about-gulf-news/al-nisr-portfolio/weekend-review/indian-director-mira-nair-on-the-reluctant-fundamentalist-1.1181142|title=Indian director Mira Nair on 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'|work=Weekend Review|date=9 May 2013 |accessdate=24 July 2013}}</ref><ref name="film box office">{{cite web|title=The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) – International|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=reluctantfundamentalist.htm|accessdate=10 December 2015}}</ref>  It opened the 2012 Venice Film Festival to critical acclaim and was released worldwide in early 2013. ''The Journal of Commonwealth Literature'' questioned "how the ambivalence and provocativeness of the 'source' text translates into the film adaptation, and the extent to which the film format makes the narrative more palatable and appealing to wider audiences as compared to the novel’s target readership."<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lau|first1=Lisa|last2=Mendes|first2=Ana Cristina|year=2018|title=Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid's and Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist|journal=The Journal of Commonwealth Literature|language=en|volume=53|issue=1|pages=80|doi=10.1177/0021989416631791|s2cid=148197670|issn=0021-9894|url=http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/1559/8/lau_jcl_2016.pdf}}</ref>

Nair's 2016 film ''[[Queen of Katwe]]'', a [[Walt Disney Pictures]] production, starred [[Lupita Nyong'o]] and [[David Oyelowo]] and was based on the story of Ugandan chess prodigy [[Phiona Mutesi]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/08/lupita-nyongo-disney-d23-star-wars-jungle-book-queen-of-katwe|magazine=Vanity Fair|title=Why Lupita Nyong'o, Not the Superheroes, Represents the Future of Disney|first=Joanna|last=Robinson|date=August 16, 2015|access-date=September 14, 2021}}</ref> It had a budget of $15&nbsp;million, and grossed $10.4&nbsp;million.<ref name=DeadlineKatwe>{{cite news | last1=Fleming | first1=Mike Jr. | title=David Oyelowo & Lupita Nyong'o In Talks To Star In 'Queen Of Katwe' For Disney | url=https://deadline.com/2015/01/david-oyelowo-lupita-nyongo-queen-of-katwe-chess-movie-1201345794/# | access-date=April 27, 2015 | website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] | date=January 9, 2015}}</ref><ref name="BOM">{{cite web | url= https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=queenofkatwe.htm | title=Queen of Katwe (2016) | website=Box Office Moj}}</ref>