Marc Smerling

Marc Smerling, 2018

Marc Smerling (* before 1996) is a screenwriter , film producer and film director who was awarded an Emmy .

Career

Smerling's film career began in 1996 with The Score ... Bootleg Versions , where he was responsible as a producer and made his directorial debut. For the documentary he produced, Capturing the Friedmans , he and director Andrew Jarecki received an Oscar nomination at the 2004 Academy Awards in the category of “best documentary”. Smerling wrote the screenplay for Jarecki's crime film All Beauty Must Die with Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst in the leading roles. Smerling received a Primetime Emmy and a PGA Award for the six-part documentary series Der Unglücksbringer: The Life and Death of Robert Durst .

2003: Capturing the Friedmans (documentary)
2010: Catfish (documentary)
2010: All Beauty Must Die (All Good Things)
2012–2015: Catfish - Lovers on the Net ( Catfish: The TV Show , TV series, 59 episodes)
2015: The jinx: The life and death of Robert Durst ( The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst , mini-series)

2004 : Oscar nomination in the “ best documentary ” category for Capturing the Friedmans
2004: OFTA Film Award in the “Best Documentary” category for Capturing the Friedmans
2015 : Emmy in the “Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series” category for Der Unglücksbringer: The Life and Death of Robert Durst
2016: PGA Award in the “Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television” category for The Bad Luck: The Life and Death of Robert Durst

personal data
SURNAME	Smerling, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American film producer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century