Nigel Noble
Nigel Noble (* 15. June 1943 in Blackpool , England ) is a British sound engineer , documentary , film director and film producer , who at the 54th Academy Awards in 1982 with an Oscar for his documentary - short film Close Harmony has been excellent.
biography
Nigel Nobel came to the United States from England in 1965, where he had only intended to stay for six months, but stayed forever. He was previously a stage manager at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon , Shakespeare's birth town .
Nigel Noble won an Oscar for his first film, Close Harmony, from 1981, which he directed and was also his own producer. The theme of the film is the interaction of very young and very much older people who give a concert together. He was inspired by his son, who was a student at the Brooklyn Friends School at the time.
Noble received a CableACE Award for his musical film The Big Apple Circus from 1991, which was made for the 15th anniversary of the Big Apple Circus . In 1999 he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for his outstanding directorial work in the episode Porgy and Bess: An American Voice of the documentary series Great Performances .
The moving documentary They Killed Sister Dorothy, produced by Nigel in 2008, which focuses on the murder of the 73-year-old Catholic nun and activist Sister Dorothy in the Brazilian rainforest, won seven film awards and was nominated for two more. Among other things, Nigel Noble was nominated for an Emmy for the production .
Nigel said in a 2001 interview that he was trying to make films about people who would normally never be in public. For every good documentary film, if people learn something from it that they did not know beforehand, they could see the world differently. The biggest challenge in making a documentary is to be honest.
Filmography (selection)
Sound department
- 1965: Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon (TV documentary)
- 1966: Unkissed Bride
- 1967: The Big Land (television documentary)
- 1968: The Queen (documentary)
- 1970: The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy (TV documentary)
- 1971: Mad Dogs & Englishmen (Documentation)
- 1972: Fillmore (documentary)
- 1974: Lialeh
- 1975: Eiskalt (Deadly Hero)
- 1976: The Money
- 1977: Between the Lines
- 1978: Rockers
- 1979: Baby Snakes (concert film)
- 1980: Miracles in San Francisco (A Christmas Without Snow ; TV movie)
- 1981: We're Fighting Back (TV movie)
- 1983: He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin '(Documentary)
- 1984: Over the Brooklyn Bridge
- 1986: American Masters (TV documentary series, episode Eugene O'Neill : A Glory of Ghosts )
Director
- 1981: Close Harmony (documentary short film; also producer)
- 1987: A Stitch for Time (documentary)
- 1988: Voices of Sarafina (documentary; also producer)
- 1991: The Big Apple Circus (TV movie)
- 1998: Great Performances (TV series, episode Porgy and Bess: An American Voice )
- 2000: Os Carvoeiros (The Charcoal People; documentary)
- 2000: Code Blue: New Orleans (TV series documentary, also producer)
- 2002: Gangs: Escaping the Life (documentary television film)
- 2004: Farmingville (co-director)
- 2007, 2009: Craft in America (TV documentary series, episodes Memory and Origins )
- 2010: Generation 9/11 (documentation)
- 2013: The Porch Light Project
producer
- 1999, 2000: Trauma: Life in the ER (TV series documentary, episodes Handle with Care and Teachable Moments , also as a video journalist)
- 2000: A Little Curious (TV series, episode Push Pull Rock )
- 2002: Code Blue: Savannah (TV series documentary, 8 episodes, also as a video journalist)
- 2003: Doctors Without Borders (TV series documentary, episode Life in the Field: Bang, Bang )
- 2004: The Beauty Academy of Kabul (documentary)
- 2005: Lifeline (TV series)
- 2008: They Killed Sister Dorothy (Documentary)
Awards (selection)
| year | Award | Category, work | along with | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Christopher Award | “Documentary competition”: Close Harmony | Won | |
| 1982 | Interfilm Award | Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg "Honorable Mention": Close Harmony | Won | |
| 1982 | Oscar | “Best Documentary Short Film” : Close Harmony | Won | |
| 1993 | CableACE | Cultural or performing arts special or series: The Big Apple Circus | Frank Doelger, Howard Meltzer, Bruce Harmon | Won |
| 1999 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America : Outstanding Documentary Directing Great Performances, Episode Porgy and Bess: An American Voice | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Primetime Emmy Awards | "Excellent Investigative Journalism (Long Form)": They Killed Sister Dorothy | Daniel Junge , Henry Ansbacher, Marcela Bourseau | Nominated |
Web links
- Nigel Noble in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nigel Noble sS ht2ff.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 54th Academy Awards | 1982 sS oscars.org (English)
- ↑ a b c Carissa Katz: Nigel Noble: Documentary Filmmaker In: The East Hampton Star, October 4, 2001 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noble, Nigel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nobel, Nigel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sound engineer, documentary filmmaker, film director and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blackpool , England |