--- name: "Ramin Bahrani" canonical: "https://film.one/person/ramin-bahrani" fi1m_id: "ramin-bahrani" imdb_id: "nm1023919" tmdb_id: 45730 wikidata_id: "Q3418487" roles: ["Editor","Director"] born: "20 March 1975" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_over: 0 updated: "2026-10-03T01:51:48.221835+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." --- # Ramin Bahrani ## Identity Ramin Bahrani - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ramin-bahrani - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** ramin-bahrani - **IMDb ID:** nm1023919 - **TMDB ID:** 45730 - **Wikidata ID:** Q3418487 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramin_Bahrani, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3418487, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1023919/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/45730 Editor and director. Born 20 March 1975 in North Carolina, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Editor, Director - **Born:** 20 March 1975, North Carolina, USA - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramin_Bahrani, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3418487, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1023919/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/45730 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*The White Tiger*](https://film.one/film/the-white-tiger.md) (78) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Ramin Bahrani > Ramin Bahrani is an editor who notices how much effort obedience takes. His work can be brisk and bitterly funny, though *The White Tiger* suggests he could be firmer about cutting his own explanations. In *The White Tiger* (2021), Balram Halwai wants to escape poverty, but obedience remains a habit he struggles to discard. Bahrani pays attention to the effort involved in serving other people, particularly those who barely notice the power they have. As co-editor with Tim Streeto, he gives the early stretches enough pace to carry a substantial amount of explanation. It is good, bitterly funny work, attentive to human behaviour even while there is considerable information to get through. Bahrani edited his first feature, *Man Push Cart* (2005), and continued to cut the films he wrote and directed with *Chop Shop* (2007) and *Goodbye Solo* (2008). Those early films favoured real locations and non-professional performers. The working day mattered, as did the places in which it was spent. Long takes allowed everyday routines to occupy the screen. Cinematographer Michael Simmonds, an early collaborator, supplied unobtrusive compositions that suited these character-led films. The move towards larger-scale stories, through *At Any Price* (2013) and *99 Homes* (2015), retained his interest in work and moral compromise. He also edited *99 Homes*, continuing to shape the material after writing and directing it. In *The White Tiger*, his adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s novel, the difficulty of doing all three jobs becomes apparent: the editing keeps material lively that the writing has begun to repeat. We were angered by the humiliations in *The White Tiger*, because Bahrani makes us notice how casually the people being served impose them. Adarsh Gourav’s absorbing performance gives that anger someone specific to care about. The music by Saunder Jurriaans and Danny Bensi sustains the unease, while the rap-heavy soundtrack makes the pursuit of wealth sound attractive. The middle is less convincing. Streeto and Bahrani cannot keep the pace up when the screenplay repeats its points, and the narration sometimes explains what the performances already convey. We would like him to leave more of those explanations out. Start with *The White Tiger*; Gourav is worth staying with through the slower passages. ## Biography Ramin Bahrani is an American director, screenwriter and producer. He was born on 20 March 1975 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to Iranian immigrant parents, and graduated from Columbia University in 1996. He later studied filmmaking in Iran and has served as a professor of film directing at Columbia University's School of the Arts. Bahrani's early feature films include *Man Push Cart* (2005), *Chop Shop* (2007) and *Goodbye Solo* (2008). He is also known for *At Any Price* (2012), *99 Homes* (2015) and the Netflix adaptation *The White Tiger* (2021), on which he served as director, writer and editor. Other credits include directing the television film *Fahrenheit 451* (2018). Bahrani received the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2021 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for *The White Tiger*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The White Tiger* (2021), Fi1m 78, Editor, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-white-tiger.md) ## Complete filmography (34) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Zejtune* (2026), Producer - *Extremist* (2025), Executive Producer - *A Little Prayer* (2025), Executive Producer - *The End* (2024), Executive Producer - *If Dreams Were Lightning* (2023), Director, Producer - *The Audition Tape* (2023), Thanks - *2nd Chance* (2022), Producer, Director, Writer - *Joyland* (2022), Executive Producer - *The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey* (2022), series, Executive Producer - *7 Prisoners* (2021), Producer - *Luzzu* (2021), Producer - *The White Tiger* (2021), Director, Editor, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-white-tiger.md) - *Treadstone* (2019), series, Executive Producer, Director - *Socrates* (2018), Producer - *Blood Kin* (2018), Writer, Producer, Director - *Fahrenheit 451* (2018), Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay - *99 Homes* (2015), Director, Writer, Story, Producer, Editor - *Lemonade War* (2014), Director, Writer, Producer - *Lift You Up* (2014), Director, Writer, Producer - *Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment* (2013), Director - *At Any Price* (2012), Director, Screenplay, Producer - *Plastic Bag* (2009), Director, Story, Screenplay, Producer, Editor - *Goodbye Solo* (2009), Editor, Screenplay, Director, Producer - *Chop Shop* (2008), Director, Editor, Writer - *Man Push Cart* (2006), Producer, Screenplay, Editor, Director - *Dogs* (2005), Director - *11’09”01—September 11: India* (2002), Extras Casting - *Strangers* (2000), as Kaveh Dalaki · Casting Director, Director, Writer, Producer - *Backgammon* (1998), Director - *Gheddis* (1981), Actor - *Amnesty*, Director, Screenplay - *Last Meals*, Director - *Vegas: A Love Story*, Director, Screenplay, Producer - *The Rancher*, Director, Screenplay ## Gallery - ![Ramin Bahrani](https://film.one/media/person/4194841/gallery-d5e8362f5a29.jpg) Ramin Bahrani — Alice Barigelli, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ramin_Bahrani%2C_2014_Venice_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Ramin_Bahrani%2C_2014_Venice_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Writer and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani in Atlanta, Georgia. (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/4194841/gallery-de6a3385ab24.jpg) Writer and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani in Atlanta, Georgia. (2008) — Dominick Brady from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Ramin_Bahrani.jpg/1280px-Ramin_Bahrani.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Ramin Bahrani at Columbia GSAPP (Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York City) (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/4194841/gallery-c8ed2ed2366a.jpg) Ramin Bahrani at Columbia GSAPP (Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York City) (2015) — Columbia GSAPP, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Ramin_Bahrani_%282015%29.jpg/1280px-Ramin_Bahrani_%282015%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Writer and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani in Atlanta, Georgia. (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/4194841/gallery-38f9acd745a7.jpg) Writer and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani in Atlanta, Georgia. (2008) — Dominick Brady from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Ramin_Bahrani_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Ramin_Bahrani_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Friday, April 10, 2015 12:00pm Wood Auditorium In recent decades, debates on slums and the future of urban life have raged. Novelists, filmmakers, academics, cu](https://film.one/media/person/4194841/gallery-8e95ced329ee.jpg) Friday, April 10, 2015 12:00pm Wood Auditorium In recent decades, debates on slums and the future of urban life have raged. Novelists, filmmakers, academics, cu — Columbia GSAPP, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Ramin_Bahrani_-_Housing_the_Majority_%2817050522430%29.jpg/1280px-Ramin_Bahrani_-_Housing_the_Majority_%2817050522430%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 2021: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The White Tiger* ### Other awards — 1 won - Guggenheim Fellowship 2009: Guggenheim Fellowship (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/ramin-bahrani