Bill Guttentag

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Bill Guttentag
Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight
Born
United States
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, film producer

Bill Guttentag is an American dramatic and documentary film writer-producer-director. His films have premiered at the

Tribeca film festivals, and he has won two Academy Awards
.

Career

Guttentag won an Oscar for Best Documentary with his HBO film You Don't Have to Die,[1] telling the story of one boy's battle against cancer. Guttentag would receive three more Oscar nominations before winning another Oscar for his 2002 documentary Twin Towers.[2]

In 2007, Guttentag directed two films –

George Foster Peabody Award in 2009.[5]

Live! had its American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and its international premiere at the

Lions Gate Entertainment (UK) and Pretty Pictures (France). Live! was produced by Charles Roven and Atlas Entertainment
.

Guttentag partnered with

CBS All Access, premiered in October, 2020. An episode from the series was part of the official selection of the 2020 Telluride Film Festival.[6]

Guttentag created and executive produced the NBC series Crime & Punishment, which ran for three seasons, 2002–2004. Guttentag was also a director on the series. The show, a non-fiction spin-off of the Law & Order franchise, followed District Attorneys in San Diego County, California. The series was created with Dick Wolf, who was also an executive producer. Over the series' run, most shows were in the Nielsen top 20, and several were in the top 10.

His novel Boulevard, was published by Pegasus Books/W. W. Norton in 2011, and the French edition was published by Éditions Gallimard (2013), where it was a finalist for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He also co-wrote Masters of Disaster: The Ten Commandments of Damage Control, with Democratic political consultant and presidential advisor Chris Lehane, which was published in December 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan. He has also written nonfiction pieces, including for The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.

Guttentag also directed

Tribeca Film festival. The film was produced and distributed internationally by Wild Bunch
and released theatrically in the U.S. by Area 23a, and later aired on PBS. Guttentag was nominated for WGA and Producers Guild Awards for the film, which also won awards at US and international film festivals. The film was short-listed for an Academy Award.

Guttentag's film,

John F. Kennedy School of Government
.

Guttentag has directed commercials and other work for a number of Silicon Valley companies, including Google, Yahoo!, and MasterClass. He has been an advisor to MasterClass since before the company’s launch and he directed the premiere class with author James Patterson. He also directed the third class with tennis star Serena Williams.

He has directed 8 films for HBO or Cinemax, including Nanking and Only the Dead See the End of War.[9]

Guttentag has served on a number of film festival juries, including the Shanghai International Film Festival, The Odesa International Film Festival and the Morelia International Film Festival.

His film Only the Dead See the End of War premiered at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival and premiered on HBO in March 2016. He won an AACTA Award (Australian Academy Award) for Best Directing for a Documentary, and a Walkley Award (Australian Pulitzer) for the film. The film also won an AACTA for Best Documentary and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2017.[10]

Guttentag has shown his films and given lectures at many US and international universities, including: Yale, Harvard, the University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Pennsylvania; Peking University; Tsinghua University; Fudan University; Kyoto University; the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts; HEC Paris; and the Freie Universität Berlin. Other screenings include

The Council on Foreign Relations; the Paley Center for Media; and the Brooklyn Academy of Music
.

Accolades

Guttentag's films have been selected for Sundance three times, Tribeca five times, Telluride twice, and have won awards at numerous American and international film festivals. They have also received a number of special screenings internationally and in the US, including at the

Harvard Kennedy School, and the White House
.

Guttentag has received two Academy Awards, three additional Academy Award nominations, a

Producers Guild Award nomination, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
.

He taught at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school).

Guttentag has been a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2001.

Selected filmography

Eva Mendes and Guttentag at the preview showing of Live! in Paris (January 2008)

References

  1. ^ Documentary Winners: 1989 Oscars
  2. ^ "Twin Towers" winning Documentary Short Subject-Oscars on YouTube
  3. ^ Thielman, Sam; McNary, Dave (February 9, 2008). "Cody, Coens bros. top WGA Awards". Variety. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  4. ^ "Faculty-gsb.stanford.edu". Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2008.
  5. ^ "Peabody.uga.edu". Archived from the original on May 1, 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2009.
  6. ^ Elber, Lynn (October 22, 2020). "Animals, people rescue each other in heartfelt docuseries". Associated Press. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  7. ^ Tribecafilm.com Archived April 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Marinucci, Carla (June 13, 2011). "'Knife Fight' echoes real-life political scandals". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
  9. IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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  10. ^ "News & Documentary Emmy Noms: PBS & CBS Lap Field; Charles Osgood Gets Career Honor". July 25, 2017.
  11. ^ 1989|Oscars.org
  12. ^ 1990|Oscars.org
  13. ^ Documentary Winners: 1990 Oscars
  14. ^ 2003|Oscars.org

External links

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