DeWitt Sage

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DeWitt Sage (* 6. August 1942 ) is an American film producer , screenwriter and film director , who in 1974 for his documentary - short film Princeton: A Search for Answers with an Oscar was awarded.

biography

Early in his career in film, Sage co-produced, wrote and directed the film The Other Americans with filmmaker Julian Krainin for ABC , a documentary that shows both the creative potential and the devastating effects of childhood and adolescent poverty. The duo Eartha Kitt and Gordon Parks was able to win over for this project . Other projects were Oceans: The Silent Crisis with Jacques-Yves Cousteau ; News and Princeton: A Search for Answers , which won the 1974 Oscar for best short documentary, for which the team was nominated in 1972 with the film Art Is ... with Jerome Robbins , Leonard Bernstein and members of the New York City Ballet .

In 1986 Sages wrote the screenplay for the film Pinto, about the prosecution of the Ford Motor Company for Warner Brothers . With his documentary Distant Harmony - Pavarotti in China , a portrait of the opera star Luciano Pavarotti from 1987, Sage won the gold plaque at the Chicago Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival . The episode Broken Minds (1990) within the documentary television series Frontline , in which Sage takes a look at the scientific and social struggle against the disease schizophrenia - which affects many Americans - and its consequences, was provocative in the New York Times Dealing with social policy and its moving human history praised. In 1994, Sage took on a similar topic and created the documentary A Place for Madness . It was about the decision by the state of Massachusetts in the late 1970s to discharge more than 90 percent of the residents of a Northampton mental hospital into the community service.

Within the documentary series American Masters , the episode Winter Dreams about the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald was created in 2001 and the episode Mitten im Leben about Ernest Hemingway in 2005 . Sage won the Peabody Award for Winter Dreams .

DeWitt Sage is a member of the Academy's Documentary-Feature branch.

Filmography (selection)

Screenwriter = D; Director = R; Producer = P

  • 1969: The Other Americans (Documentation; D)
  • 1972: Art Is ... (short documentation; D, R, P)
  • 1974: Princeton: A Search for Answers (short documentary; D, R, P)
  • 1977: First Edition (short documentation; D, P)
  • 1982: The Quiet Collector: Andrew Mellon Remembered (D, R)
  • 1984: Madness (documentary, D, R, P)
  • 1986: Pinto
  • 1987: Distant Harmony - Pavarotti in China (Documentation; D, R, P)
  • 1988: Depression (Documentation; D, R, P)
  • 1990, 1995: Frontline (television documentary series; episodes Broken Minds and The Vanishing Father ; D, R, P)
  • 1992: Faith Under Fire (documentary television film; R, P)
  • 1994: A Place for Madness (documentary; D, R, P)
  • 2001, 2005: American Masters (television documentary;

Awards

year Award Category, work along with Result
1972 Oscar "Best Documentary Short Film" : Art Is ... Julian Krainin Nominated
1974 Oscar "Best Documentary Short": Princeton: A Search for Answers Julian Krainin Won
1978 Oscar “Best Documentary Short Film”: First Edition Helen Whitney Nominated
1987 Gold plaque Chicago International Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival : Distant Harmony Won
1988 Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival : Distant Harmony Nominated
1995 Robert Kennedy Journalism Award A place for madness Nominated
2002 Peabody Award "Special Quality": American Masters: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams Won
2006 Primetime Emmy "Excellent Screenplay": American Masters: Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea Nominated

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DeWitt Sage sS rateyourmusic.com (English)
  2. ↑ The 46th Academy Awards | 1974 sS oscars.org (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d DeWitt Sage: These Films include sS dewittsage.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Say, DeWitt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, screenwriter, and film director
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1942