Deborah Dickson

Deborah Dickson (born before 1985) is an American director and film producer .

Life

Dickson studied at Barnard College and New York University Film School . She began her career in 1985 with a television documentary about Seiji Ozawa, co-produced by ZDF . She directed and was also responsible for the film editing; the film was later nominated for the Sundance Film Festival jury award. In the same year she edited a television documentary about Vladimir Horowitz . In 1988 she was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Documentary Short Film, but received nothing with the short film Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller, which she directed, produced and edited . She was also nominated for the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1988 for Karajan in Salzburg through Herbert von Karajan .

In 1997 and 2002 she was again nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary , but could not win the award in any of her nominations with Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse and LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton .

Filmography (selection)

• 1987: Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
• 1989: Dancing for Mr. B: Six Balanchine Ballerinas
• 1996: Letting Go: A Hospice Journey
• 1996: Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse
• 2001: LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
• 2002: Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House
• 2009: Witnesses to a Secret War
• 2012: The Lost Bird Project
• 2014: Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in the House, Special Edition

Awards (selection)

• 1988 : Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short Film for Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
• 1997 : Oscar nomination for Best Documentary for Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse
• 2002 : Oscar nomination for Best Documentary for LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

Web links

• Deborah Dickson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Deborah Dickson in the All Movie Guide (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rocky Mountains Women's Film Institute (English)