# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ross-mcelwee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:36:37.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ross-mcelwee"
name: "Ross McElwee"
slug: "ross-mcelwee"
description: "Ross McElwee is an American documentary filmmaker known for his autobiographical films about his family and personal life, usually interwoven with an episodic journey that intersects with larger political or philosophical issues. His humorous and often self-deprecating films refer to cultural aspects of his Southern upbringing. He received the Career Award at the 2007 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival."
tagline: "American documentary filmmaker (born 1947)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/h0hGY95OYCC5g0JF0aLCyY6dish.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1947-07-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.47
  momentum:             25
  historical:           7.34668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568478/"
    handle:    "nm0568478"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://rossmcelwee.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "راس میکلوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "روس مكيلوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_McElwee"
    title: "Ross McElwee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%DA%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "راس مک الوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_McElwee"
    title: "Ross McElwee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ロス・マケルウィー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_McElwee"
    title: "Ross McElwee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3442775"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126620"
    title: "Ross McElwee"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump