Bill Couturié

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William "Bill" D. Couturié (born June 27, 1950 ) is an American documentary filmmaker (director, producer, screenwriter) and Oscar winner.

Life

Since the 1970s, Couturié began to be interested in socially relevant topics that dealt with US sensitivities. Not yet 30 years old, Couturié started his work as a producer, starting with a short Apocalypse Now film parody called Porklips Now . But then he concentrated on serious documentary films and soon became active as a director and screenwriter. The Vietnam War problem and the consequences on the mental state and emotions of American soldiers during the war (three so-called Letters films) examined Couturié productions and stagings again and again. His work also dealt with the death of farms in rural America or the (then) new popular epidemic AIDS as well as with softer topics such as the recipe for a successful Hollywood film ( Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters ) and the life of John F. Kennedy based on Letters to his wife Jacqueline ( Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy ). In 1982 Bill Couturié also produced an animated entertainment film ( John Korty's Twice Upon a Time ), and in 1995 he also directed a classic entertainment film; with a chimpanzee in the lead role ( Ed - The strong monkey sports cannon ).

Awards and nominations

Bill Couturié has received numerous film and television awards. For the film Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, produced by him and Robert Epstein in 1989, about a memorial project in memory of the AIDS dead (the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt ), both men received the 1990 Oscar for best full-length documentary . Another commemorative project, the 19-minute Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers staged by Couturié , this time about US soldiers deployed abroad in five wars, earned its maker another Oscar nomination in 1992, this time in the category of Best Short Documentary . Further prizes were three Primetime Emmys , which Couturié received in 1988 (for Dear America - Letters from Vietnam ), 1993 (for Earth and the American Dream ) and 2002 (for The West Wing Documentary Special ). He was also awarded two CableACE Awards (for Dear America - Letters from Vietnam and Earth and the American Dream ), an IDA Award (again for Dear America - Letters from Vietnam ), and a News and Documentary Emmy (for Vietnam Requiem ) and at the Sundance Film Festival with the special jury award (again for Dear America - Letters from Vietnam ).

Filmography

Long and short documentaries, unless otherwise stated:

  • 1980: Can't It Be Anyone Else (Production)
  • 1980: Porklips Now (production, feature film)
  • 1982: Vietnam Requiem (Director, Production)
  • 1983: Twice Upon a Time (Production, Screenplay)
  • 1987: Dear America - Letters from Vietnam ( Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam ) (director, production, screenplay)
  • 1989: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (Production)
  • 1991: Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers (Direction, Production)
  • 1992: Earth and the American Dream (Direction, Production, Screenplay)
  • 1994: Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (line producer)
  • 1995: Ed - Die apenstarke Sportskanone ( Ed ) (feature film. Director, line producer)
  • 2001: A Place at the Table (line producer)
  • 2002: Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (line producer)
  • 2002: The West Wing Documentary Special (Director, Screenplay)
  • 2004: Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq (Director, Production)
  • 2005: Into the Fire (Director, Screenplay)
  • 2006: Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (Direction, Production, Screenplay)
  • 2009: The Alzheimer's Project (director, producer; one episode)
  • 2010: 30 for 30: Guru of Go (Director, Production)
  • 2011: Thumbs (Director)
  • 2013: Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy (Production)
  • 2016–2019: Saving Eden from the Sixth Extinction (Director)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to mylife.com

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personal data
SURNAME Couturié, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Couturié, William D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1950