---
name: "Alexandre Rockwell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alexandre-rockwell"
fi1m_id: "alexandre-rockwell"
imdb_id: "nm0734319"
tmdb_id: 3111
wikidata_id: "Q549956"
roles: []
born: "18 August 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:27:56.993983+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alexandre Rockwell

## Identity

Alexandre Rockwell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alexandre-rockwell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alexandre-rockwell
- **IMDb ID:** nm0734319
- **TMDB ID:** 3111
- **Wikidata ID:** Q549956
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Rockwell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q549956, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734319/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3111

Director. Born 18 August 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 18 August 1956, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Also known as:** Alexandre Alexeieff
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Rockwell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q549956, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734319/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3111

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Caro diario*](https://film.one/film/caro-diario.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Alexandre Rockwell is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 18 August 1956, he is the grandson of the animator Alexandre Alexeieff.

His early features include *Lenz* (1982) and *Hero* (1983). He directed *In the Soup* (1992), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and the segment 'The Wrong Man' in the anthology *Four Rooms* (1995). Other credits include *Somebody to Love* (1994), *Louis & Frank* (1998), *13 Moons* (2002), *Pete Smalls Is Dead* (2010) and *Sweet Thing* (2020). In 2017 he was appointed head of directing at the graduate film department of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, tvinsider.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Caro diario* (1993), Fi1m 77, as Alexandre Rockwell — [page](https://film.one/film/caro-diario.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Big Daddy’s Flowers* (2026), Executive Producer
- *The Projectionist* (2026), Director
- *Lump* (2024), Director, Writer
- *Sweet Thing* (2020), Writer, Director
- *In the Same Garden* (2016), Director
- *Little Feet* (2013), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Pete Smalls Is Dead* (2010), Writer, Director, Producer
- *A Perfect Place* (2008), Co-Producer
- *13 Moons* (2002), as Man · Director, Writer, Producer
- *Louis & Frank* (1998), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Four Rooms* (1995), Executive Producer, Director, Writer
- *Somebody to Love* (1994), Writer, Director
- *Caro diario* (1993), as Alexandre Rockwell — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/caro-diario.md)
- *In the Soup* (1992), Director, Writer
- *Sons* (1990), Director, Writer
- *Hero* (1983), Cinematography, Editor, Director, Writer
- *Lenz* (1982), as Lenz · Director, Producer, Writer, Camera Operator, Editor
- *I Miss My Mom & Dream of Our New Home*, Thanks

## Gallery

- ![Alexandre Rockwell](https://film.one/media/person/3929597/gallery-381f3f1a6f04.jpg) Alexandre Rockwell — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Alexandre_Rockwell_%2841412%29.jpg/1280px-Alexandre_Rockwell_%2841412%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexandre Rockwell during the In the Soup (1992) panel at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/3929597/gallery-7edbd1c6dce4.jpg) Alexandre Rockwell during the In the Soup (1992) panel at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Alexandre_Rockwell_%2841418%29.jpg/1280px-Alexandre_Rockwell_%2841418%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexandre Rockwell and Steve Buscemi during the In the Soup (1992) panel at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/3929597/gallery-adb865bf8a9f.jpg) Alexandre Rockwell and Steve Buscemi during the In the Soup (1992) panel at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Alexandre_Rockwell_and_Steve_Buscemi_%2841400%29.jpg/1280px-Alexandre_Rockwell_and_Steve_Buscemi_%2841400%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexandre Rockwell and Steve Buscemi during the In the Soup (1992) panel at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/3929597/gallery-75901e4643ef.jpg) Alexandre Rockwell and Steve Buscemi during the In the Soup (1992) panel at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Alexandre_Rockwell_and_Steve_Buscemi_%2841451%29.jpg/1280px-Alexandre_Rockwell_and_Steve_Buscemi_%2841451%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexandre Rockwell and Steve Buscemi during the In the Soup (1992) panel at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/3929597/gallery-abed3dd3586a.jpg) Alexandre Rockwell and Steve Buscemi during the In the Soup (1992) panel at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Alexandre_Rockwell_and_Steve_Buscemi_%2841425%29.jpg/1280px-Alexandre_Rockwell_and_Steve_Buscemi_%2841425%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexandre Rockwell and Steve Buscemi during the In the Soup (1992) panel at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Rockwell is taking a video of the crowd saying "We l](https://film.one/media/person/3929597/gallery-35facb8f2871.jpg) Alexandre Rockwell and Steve Buscemi during the In the Soup (1992) panel at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Rockwell is taking a video of the crowd saying "We l — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Alexandre_Rockwell_and_Steve_Buscemi_%2841410%29.jpg/1280px-Alexandre_Rockwell_and_Steve_Buscemi_%2841410%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award 1992: Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award (won), for *In the Soup*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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