Brett Morgen
Brett Morgen | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | October 11, 1968
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Occupation(s) | Film director, producer |
Spouse | Debra Eisenstadt |
Children | 3 |
Brett D. Morgen (born October 11, 1968)[1] is an American documentary filmmaker. His directorial credits include The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002), Crossfire Hurricane (2012), Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015), Jane (2017), and Moonage Daydream (2022).
Early life
Morgen was born October 11, 1968, in
Morgen attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he earned a B.A. in history in 1987, before graduating with an MFA in filmmaking from New York University in 1991.[4]
Career
Morgen made Ollie's Army while a student at New York University. The film focuses on the exploits of the James Madison University College Republicans during Oliver North's senatorial campaign of 1994.[5][6][7]
June 17th, 1994 aired on ESPN as an episode of 30 for 30 and featured on-air commentary by Morgen. It was the only 30 for 30 episode to date that included no interviews or voice-overs, consisting solely of the actual TV footage on June 17, 1994. This was the date of the O. J. Simpson slow-moving police chase, and the other important sports stories of that day that were mostly ignored, due to the American public's fascination with Simpson.[citation needed]
Next, Morgan directed Crossfire Hurricane (2012), a documentary on The Rolling Stones, followed by the Kurt Cobain documentary film Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015).[8] His next film was Jane (2017), which follows the life of primatologist Jane Goodall, produced by National Geographic.[9]
Morgen began working on the David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream in 2017.[10] The film was released theatrically in 2022 after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.[10]
Personal life
Morgen is married to filmmaker Debra Eisenstadt, with whom he has three children: Sky, Max and Jasper.[3]
On January 5, 2017, while working on the film Moonage Daydream, Morgen suffered a near-fatal heart attack and flatlined three times while receiving medical care.[10] The heart attack resulted in Morgen being in a coma for a week, but he survived.[11][12] In a 2022 interview, Morgen attributed his heart attack to years of smoking, stress, and lack of exercise.[11]
Filmography
Feature-length films
- Ollie's Army (1996)
- Academy Award for Best Documentary Featurenomination)
- The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
- The Sweet Science (2003)
- Chicago 10 (2007)
- Truth in Motion (2010)
- June 17th, 1994 (2010) (30 for 30)
- Crossfire Hurricane (2012)
- Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) (Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program nomination)
- Jane (2017) (Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program winner) [13]
- Moonage Daydream (2022)
Television series
- On Tour (1997)
- Say It Loud (2001)
- "Nimrod Nation" (2007) Won Peabody Award (2008)
- Marvel's Runaways(2017)
Awards and nominations
Year | Title | Award | Result |
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2018 | Jane | Cinema for Peace International Green Film Award | Won |
BAFTA Film Award for Best Documentary | Nominated [14] | ||
Cinema Eye Audience Choice Award | Won [15] | ||
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival Politiken's Audience Award | Nominated | ||
Gold Derby Award for Best Documentary Feature | Nominated | ||
International Online Cinema Award for Best Documentary | Nominated | ||
OFTA Best Documentary Picture | Nominated | ||
Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming | Won [16] | ||
Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program | Nominated | ||
Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming | Nominated | ||
Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking | Nominated | ||
Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures | Nominated | ||
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival WWF Award | Nominated | ||
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay | Won[17] | ||
2017 | Amsterdam International Film Festival Audience Favorite Award | Nominated | |
Awards Circuit Community Award for Best Documentary Feature | Nominated | ||
BFI London Film Festival Grierson Award for Best Documentary | Won | ||
Zelda Penzel Giving Voice to the Voiceless Award | Nominated | ||
Philadelphia Film Festival Student Choice Award | Won | ||
2016 | Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck | American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary Feature | Nominated |
Cinema Eye Audience Choice Award | Nominated | ||
Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing | Nominated | ||
Seattle Film Critics Award | Nominated | ||
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay | Nominated | ||
2015 | Ashland Independent Film Award for Best Editing: Feature Length Documentary | Won | |
International Documentary Association Creative Recognition Award for Best Editing | Won | ||
Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming | Nominated | ||
Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming | Nominated | ||
Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special | Nominated | ||
Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming | Nominated | ||
2013 | Crossfire Hurricane | FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage in a Production Featuring Music | Won |
2009 | Chicago 10 | Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay | Nominated |
2008 | Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Production | Nominated | |
SLFCA Award Best Animated Film | Nominated | ||
2007 | Silver Hugo Award for Best Documentary Feature | Won | |
2003 | The Kid Stays in the Picture | International Online Cinema Award for Best Documentary | Nominated |
OFTA Film Award | Nominated | ||
2000 | On the Ropes | Academy Awards Best Documentary Feature | Nominated [18] |
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary | Won | ||
Film Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award | Nominated | ||
1999 | International Documentary Association Award for Best Documentary Feature | Won | |
Silver Spire Award for Film & Video - Society and Culture | Won | ||
Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Documentary | Won | ||
Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Documentary | Nominated[19] | ||
Taos Talking Picture Festival Land Grant Award | Nominated | ||
Urbanworld Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Documentary | Won | ||
1996 | Ollie's Army | UFVA Film Festival First Prize | Won |
References
- ^ a b "Brett D Morgen, Born 10/11/1968 in Los Angeles County, California". The California Birth Index. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
- ^ a b c d Rushfield, Richard (May 1, 2015). "Brett Morgen: The Making of 'Montage of Heck's Mad Scientist". Uproxx. Archived from the original on September 30, 2018.
- ^ a b Levine, Edward (November 13, 2009). "Director's Suite". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 26, 2018.
- ^ "Filmmaker: Morgen, Brett". DCEFF. Archived from the original on March 16, 2022.
- ^ "Movie Reviews". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- Austin ChronicleSeptember 27, 1996
- ^ Ollie's Army (1996) - Overview - TCM.com
- ^ Welch, Andy (January 4, 2013). "'Crossfire Hurricane' director reveals first details of Kurt Cobain film". NME. Archived from the original on December 29, 2016.
- ^ O'Falt, Chris (August 22, 2018). "'Jane': Why 50-Year Old 16mm Archival Footage of Goodall and the Chimps Looks So Good". IndieWire. Archived from the original on November 3, 2021.
- ^ a b c Blyth, Antonia (May 23, 2022). "Brett Morgen Reveals He Flatlined After Heart Attack While Making 'Moonage Daydream', Felt Bowie "Was Guiding Me Through Recovery" — Cannes Studio". Deadline. Archived from the original on June 28, 2022.
- ^ a b Parker, Lyndsey (September 8, 2022). "'Moonage Daydream' director Brett Morgen nearly died making Bowie doc: 'I can't talk about the messaging of the film without talking about the heart attack'". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on September 9, 2022.
- ^ Dwyer, Michael (August 25, 2022). "'I want to live': The hidden tears that unlocked an epic David Bowie movie". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on August 27, 2022.
- ^ 2018 Creative Arts Emmys: Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program-Television Academy
- ^ 2018 Film Documentary-BAFTA Awards
- ^ "The Results Are In!". 12 January 2018.
- ^ "2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards: The Complete List of Winners". Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
- ^ Brett Morgen wins the 2018 Writers Guild Documentary Screenplay Award for Jane-WGA West
- ^ Documentary Winners: 2000 Oscars
- ^ CNN - Winners at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival - February 1, 1999
External links
- Official website
- Brett Morgen at IMDb