Robert Stone (director)
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Robert Stone is a British-American
Life and career
Stone was born in
His only foray into fiction filmmaking was a counter-factual fake historical documentary for German television called
Accolades
His debut work was the Academy Award-nominated
Entertainment Weekly film critic Owen Gleiberman stated that Stone "may be the most under-celebrated great documentary filmmaker in America."[7] His films Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004) and Oswald's Ghost (2008) both received Emmy nominations for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking; Gleiberman hailed them as "two of the most explosively insightful documentaries of the last decade".[8] For Earth Days (2009), Stone received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay.[9]
Filmography
- Radio Bikini (1988)
- The Satellite Sky (1990)
- Farewell, Good Brothers (1992)
- World War Three (1998) aka Der Dritte Weltkrieg
- American Babylon (2000)
- Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004) aka Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army
- Hollywood Vietnam (2005)
- Oswald's Ghost (2008)
- The Civilian Conservation Corps (2009; broadcast by PBS's American Experience)
- Earth Days (2009)
- Pandora's Promise (2013)
- Cold War Roadshow (2014)[10][11]
- Chasing the Moon (2019)[12]
- Taken Hostage (2022)
An Ecomodernist Manifesto
In April 2015, Stone joined with a group of scholars in issuing An Ecomodernist Manifesto.
References
- ^ a b Robert Stone interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
- ^ Mroz, Jacqueline. "Sundance Honor for Film of Early Save-the-Earth Activists", The New York Times, February 13, 2009. Accessed December 10, 2018. "When he was just 11 years old and living in Princeton, Robert Stone borrowed his parents’ Super 8 camera and made his first film, about the pollution he saw around him.... After attending Princeton High School, Mr. Stone studied history in college."
- ^ Porter, Eduardo (14 April 2015). "A Call to Look Past Sustainable Development". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ^ "The 60th Academy Awards (1988) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
- ^ The Ten-Year Lunch Wins Documentary Feature: 1988 Oscars
- ^ Ahern, Sarah (April 27, 2017). "TV News Roundup: Nasim Pedrad Joins TBS Comedy 'People of Earth' as Series Regular". Variety.
PBS' American Experience has greenlit a new four-hour docu-series "Chasing the Moon"
- ^ Gleiberman, Owen (24 Jan 2013). "Sundance: What makes 'The Way, Way Back' a crowd-pleaser? Plus 'Pandora's Promise,' a radically sane and important documentary about how nuclear power could save us". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ^ Gleiberman, Owen (18 April 2010). "40 years after Earth Day, 'Earth Days' reveals that much of what you think you know about the modern environmental movement is wrong". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ^ "2010 Writers Guild Award Winners". TV Source Magazine. 21 February 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ^ "American Experience: Cold War Roadshow". PBS.
- ^ Robert Stone. "Filmography". Robert Stone Productions. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
- ^ "American Experience: Chasing the Moon". PBS.
- ^ "An Ecomodernist Manifesto". ecomodernism.org. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
A good Anthropocene demands that humans use their growing social, economic, and technological powers to make life better for people, stabilize the climate, and protect the natural world.
- ^ Eduardo Porter (April 14, 2015). "A Call to Look Past Sustainable Development". The New York Times. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
On Tuesday, a group of scholars involved in the environmental debate, including Professor Roy and Professor Brook, Ruth DeFries of Columbia University, and Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute in Oakland, Calif., issued what they are calling the "Eco-modernist Manifesto."
- ^ "Authors An Ecomodernist Manifesto". ecomodernism.org. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
As scholars, scientists, campaigners, and citizens, we write with the conviction that knowledge and technology, applied with wisdom, might allow for a good, or even great, Anthropocene.
External links
- Robert Stone at IMDb
- Robert Stone Productions