Gregory James Nava (born April 10, 1949) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Nava was born in San Diego, of Mexican and Basque heritage. Nava graduated from St. Augustine High School in San Diego and attended film school at UCLA where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in 1976.

Gregory Nava was born on 10 April 1949 in San Diego, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Selena (1997).

2021年4月15日 · For nearly 40 years, Gregory Nava has been one of the leading lights in the Latino film community. Long before Robert Rodriguez or Guillermo del Toro or Alejandro González Iñárritu chose to tell larger-than-life stories, Nava opted to tell human-sized stories.

2019年9月10日 · Nava recently spoke at length with RogerEbert.com about his extraordinary behind-the-scenes adventures, why it was worth risking his life to make this movie and the important role it can play in the modern discourse regarding immigration.

2012年12月14日 · “That’s what life is really like,” Nava told me, the day after his movie’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last January. He is a tall, demonstrative man whose presence seems to express the exuberance in his films. Roller-coaster life

2025年1月28日 · Forty years after it first earned writer-director Gregory Nava and co-writer Anna Thomas an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay, the film remains a new American classic.

2019年9月10日 · Like the Mayan teenagers whose quiet lives are upended by forces beyond their control at the beginning of Gregory Nava’s 1984 debut, El Norte is an unassuming film of unexpected depth.