Matthew O'Neill
Matthew O'Neill (born 20th century in the United States ) is an American documentary filmmaker , film producer and cameraman . With the film Baghdad ER (2010), he and his colleague Jon Alpert won a total of three Emmys .
Life
Matthew O'Neill grew up on Long Island , New York and studied at Yale University . There he obtained a degree in theater studies in 2000 . He then began making documentaries, including for the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) in New York. He created foreign reports from all over the world for PBS , ESPN , Channel 4 and NHK, among others .
Along with Jon Alpert he made a documentary in 2006 Baghdad ER , the everyday life of an emergency Lazarets the United States Army in Baghdad showed. The ambitious project won three Emmys and was nominated for another. In 2007 he shot Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, another report on the foreign deployment of US troops in Iraq , this time focusing on those returning from the war. For this he received another Emmy nomination, also in 2009 for Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery .
In 2010 , together with Alpert, he received his first nomination for Best Documentary Short Film for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province . The second nomination followed at the 2013 Academy Awards for Redemption .
Filmography
- 2002–2006: Wide Angle (documentary series, 3 episodes, production)
- 2003: Bridge to Baghdad I and II (TV film, production)
- 2005: Venezuela: Revolution in Progress (Production, Director)
- 2006: Baghdad ER (Production, Director)
- 2007: Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (Production)
- 2008: Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (Director)
- 2008: Access Denied ?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability (Director)
- 2008: A Woman Among Boys (Director)
- 2009: China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (Producer, Director)
- 2010: No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike (Production, Director)
- 2010: El espiritu de la salsa (production)
- 2010: Wartorn: 1861-2010
- 2012: In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution (Production, Director)
- 2012: Redemption (Director)
- 2015: The Latin Explosion: A New America (Producer, Director)
Awards
- 2006 : three Emmys for Baghdad ER (together with Jon Alpert )
- 2006: Peabody Award for Baghdad ER (together with Jon Alpert)
- 2007: Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for Baghdad ER (together with Jon Alpert)
- 2010 : Oscar nomination for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (with Jon Alpert)
- 2010: Golden Nymph ( Nymphe d'Or ) of the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (together with Jon Alpert)
- 2011: CINE Masters's Series Award for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (together with Jon Alpert and Sheila Nevins )
- 2011: Prism Award for Wartorn: 1861–2010 (together with Jon Alpert, James Gandolfini , Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Sheila Nevins)
- 2013 : Oscar nomination for Redemption (with Jon Alpert)
Web links
- Matthew O'Neill in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Yale Alumni Go to the Oscars. Yale University , March 1, 2010, accessed January 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Matthew O'Neill. DCTVny.org, accessed January 10, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Awards. Internet Movie Database , accessed January 10, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Neill, Matthew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American documentary filmmaker, film producer and cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |