Oscar-Winning 'Call Me By Your Name' Screenwriter James Ivory Upset Film Lacks Frontal Male Nudity

James Ivory, who won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on "Call Me By Your Name," recently told The Guardian he wasn't happy the gay coming-of-age film didn't feature full frontal male nudity.

In his original script, Ivory called for the film's two leads - Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet - to be fully nude. But due to the actors' contracts, full frontal nudity was off the table.

"When [director] Luca [Guadagnino] says he never thought of putting nudity in, that is totally untrue," Ivory told The Guardian. "He sat in this very room where I am sitting now, talking about how he would do it, so when he says that it was a conscious aesthetic decision not to-well, that's just bullshit."

Ivory, who is gay, said seeing the actors cover themselves up with sheets after having sex looks "phony."

"I never liked doing that," he said. "And I don't do it, as you know."

Guadagnino, who is also gay, spoke about the sex scenes in "Call Me By Your Name" in the past, saying he wasn't "interested at all" in showing explicit sex.

"The tone would've been very different from what I was looking for. I wanted the audience to completely rely on the emotional travel of these people and feel first love," he told The Hollywood Reporter last year. "I didn't want the audience to find any difference or discrimination toward these characters. It was important to me to create this powerful universality, because the whole idea of the movie is that the other person makes you beautiful - enlightens you, elevates you."