Karen Goodman

Karen Goodman is an American film producer and director of documentaries . In 2011 she won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film for Strangers No More .

biography

Karen Goodman began producing and directing short documentary films in the late 1980s and has directed around a dozen films to date. For her debut film The Children's Storefront (1988), she received her first nomination for the Oscar for best documentary short film at the 1989 Academy Awards .

For Chimps: So Like Us (1990) she not only received her second Oscar nomination with Kirk Simon in 1991 , but also won an Emmy in 1990 with Simon for the most outstanding documentary.

Also with Kirk Simon, she was nominated for the 1996 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award for Documentaries for the episode " Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud " from the American Masters series . In 1997 she won the CableACE Award for Special TV Documentaries for Heart of a Child (1997) together with Sheila Nevins, Kirk Simon, Nancy Abraham, Nancy Raydon Roach and Elizabeth Westrate . For the 2006 documentary Rehearsing a Dream , she and Kirk Simon were again nominated for an Oscar in 2007 for best documentary short film.

At the 2011 Academy Awards , she and Kirk Simon won the short documentary film award for her work on Strangers No More .

In addition to the National Geographic Channel documentary The Incredible Human Body (2002), Karen Goodman also produced the nine-part Home Box Office television production Masterclass (2010) about Plácido Domingo , Liv Ullmann , Edward Albee , Jacques d'Amboise , Olafur Eliasson , Frank Gehry , Bill T. Jones , Michael Tilson Thomas and Julian Schnabel .

Web links

• Karen Goodman in the Internet Movie Database (English)