caption birth_place awards birth_date spouse yearsactive image article_title name occupation
kaufman at the 1991 venice film festival chicago , illinois , u.s. '' 1978 '' invasion of the body snatchers '' '' ` ` kcfcc award for best director '' ' 1983 '' the saturn right stuff '' '' ` nsfc award for best director award '' ' 1988 '' the unbearable lightness of being '' for best direction '' ' 23 october 1936 rose -rrb- kaufman -lrb- 1958 -- 2009 ; her death 1964 -- present philip kaufman 03.jpg philip kaufman
 philip kaufman director , screenwriter , producer , actor
philip kaufman

philip kaufman -lrb- born october 23 , 1936 -rrb- is an american film director and screenwriter .
his movies have adapted novels of widely different types -- from milan kundera 's `` the unbearable lightness of being '' to michael crichton 's `` rising sun '' ; from tom wolfe 's true-life `` the right stuff '' to the erotic writings of anaïs nin 's `` henry & june '' .
his greatest success has been the film `` the right stuff '' which received eight academy award nominations , including best picture .
