Terry Sanders
Terry Sanders (born December 20, 1931 in New York City ) is an American film producer , film director , cameraman and screenwriter who won the Oscar for best short film at the 1955 Academy Awards for A Time Out of War and in 1995 for Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision won the Oscar for Best Documentary .
Life
Terry Sanders was the son of a New York architect and designer and film producer Altina Schinasi . Sanders, younger brother of the film producer, film director and screenwriter Denis Sanders , studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and worked with his brother at the beginning of his career in the film industry, for example on his first short film Subject: Narcotics (1951 ). Together with his brother, he won the 1955 Oscar for the two-reel film A Time Out of War (1954), which is based on the short story The Pickets by Robert W. Chambers and the two were both for a Master of Arts degree best short film. Also in 1955 he was second unit director of Charles Laughton's famous film classic The Night of the Hunter , for which he filmed, among other things, the aerial shots of the Ohio River .
In 1974 he and June Wayne were nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film for Four Stones for Kanemitsu (1973) .
He later worked with Freida Lee Mock on a number of films such as Emmy- nominated Screenwriters / Word into Image (1983) and the Emmy-winning television documentary Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me (1989). In 1988, Sanders was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Documentary Directing for the television film Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record (1987) . For Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember (1990) he and Mock were again nominated for an Oscar in 1991 for best documentary short film.
In 1995 he and Freida Lee Mock won the Oscar for best documentary for Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994).
At the 1996 Academy Awards , he was nominated again for an Oscar with Mock - this time for Best Documentary Short Film, for Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper (1995), before joining her in 1999 at Cleveland International Film Festival for Return with Honor (1998) won the Best Picture Award. This film also won the jury award at the DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival in 1999 .
Sanders, who also directed films for the National Geographic Society , was most recently the producer, director and screenwriter of the documentary Fighting For Life in 2008 .
Web links
- Terry Sanders in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sanders, Terry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film producer, director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |