Martyn Burke

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Martyn Burke
documentary films

Martyn Burke (born 1952) is a Canadian director, novelist and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario.[1]

Biography

Born in

Books in Canada First Novel Award
.

In 2018, the BBC listed the Paramount Pictures film Top Secret!, which Burke co-wrote, as one of the top one hundred film comedies of all time.

In 2012 he won the Peabody Award and was short-listed for an Academy Award for the film Under Fire: Journalists In Combat; in 2015 he was named winner of the Auteur Award by the International Press Association in Los Angeles; and in 2018 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.[2]

Burke lives in Santa Monica, California with his wife, Laura Morton.

Career

After Viet Nam, Burke started writing, directing and producing documentaries for

Genie Award
for his documentary, Witnesses, filmed inside the conflict zones of Afghanistan. Other conflict zone documentaries include The Week That Paddy Died, about the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.

Often Burke's work as a documentary filmmaker inspired his novels or films. His documentary The KGB Connections, resulted in his later novel, The Commissar's Report, a satirical story about

Rock and Roll
.

While still living in Canada, Burke began writing and directing theatrical films, such as

Coup d'Etat which starred Peter O'Toole and David Hemmings. He emigrated to California when Columbia Pictures optioned his book The Commissar's Report and brought him to Los Angeles
to write the screenplay.

Continuing to produce and direct documentaries - his 2012 documentary Under Fire: Journalists in Combat was short-listed for an

Madeline Stowe
.

Films

Documentaries

[3]

Novels

[4]

Awards and nominations

  • International Press Academy Special Achievement Auteur Award - 2015
  • Peabody Award
    - 2012 Under Fire: Journalists in Combat
  • Academy Award
    short-list for Best Feature Documentary Under Fire: Journalists in Combat
  • DGA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television nomination Pirates of Silicon Valley[5]
  • Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing - TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley[6]
  • Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley[6]
  • Edgar Allan Poe Award
    nomination for Best Television Sugartime

Feature or Miniseries

  • ACTRA Award for Best Screenplay Power Play a.k.a. Coup d'Etat
  • Genie Award
    for Best Documentary Witnesses
  • Gemini Award
    for Best Documentary Connections
  • ANIK Award for Best Film Connections
  • Prix Gemeaux
    for Best Documentary Cinq Defis

References

  1. ^ The New York Times
  2. ^ "Spring Convocation ceremonies to present honorary degrees to ten distinguished figures". dailynews.mcmaster.ca.
  3. ^ Library and Archives Canada
  4. ^ Amazon book and film page for Martyn Burke
  5. ^ "DGA: Winner and Nominee Search". Directors Guild of America. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  6. ^
    Emmy Awards
    . 1999. Retrieved 2015-12-12.

Sources

  • [1], November 23, 2011 Globe and Mail article
  • [2], McMaster University Alumni
  • [3], CBC news radio interview
  • [4], 72nd Annual George F. Peabody Awards Announcement
  • [5], IMDb Sugartime Award Page
  • [6] International Press Academy Award Page

External links

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