Thomas Lennon (documentary filmmaker)

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Thomas Lennon

Thomas Lennon (* 20th century ) is an American film producer , film director , screenwriter and documentary filmmaker .

Career

Thomas Lennon's career in film began in 1984 when he wrote the script and made his directorial debut for the television documentary To Save Our Schools, to Save Our Children . The documentary aired on ABC and Lennon received a News & Documentary Emmy Award for it . Since 1989 he has also worked as a producer, so he was responsible for the television series American Experience by PBS , for which he received a 1996 Primetime Emmy Awards nomination . He then also worked on the television series Frontline , for which he received a WGA Award in 1991 and 1994 , for four episodes of the television series The Irish in America: Long Journey Home , which was commissioned by Walt Disney Television and Becoming American: The Chinese Experience from PBS with.

For his documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane , the 1996 with the television series American Experience was released, Lennon was with Michael Epstein at the Academy Awards in 1996 his first Oscar nomination in the category " Best Documentary ". The film shows how media mogul William Randolp Hearst tried to stop the Orson Welles film Citizen Kane , because the main character's story was based too much on his own biography. The attempt to buy all the material from the film failed, so Hearst launched a media campaign against Welles.

In Lennon's second Oscar nomination for his participation in The Blood of Yingzhou District , of the lives of orphans in Fuyang shows whose parents through the blood donations to AIDS diseased, he was awarded with Ruby Yang an Oscar at the Academy Awards 2007 in the category " Best Documentary Short film ". Then the two Oscar winners founded the China AIDS Media Project, which is committed to educating people about AIDS in China. He was also nominated for the Oscars for the film The Warriors of Qiugang , which shows the life of the residents near a chemical plant and how they protest against this factory because of the poor environmental conditions.

Lennon received his fourth and final nomination at the 2018 Academy Awards for his contribution to Knife Skills . However, Frank Stiefel received the award for his contribution Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The 68th Academy Awards - 1996. Oscars.org, accessed January 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The 79th Academy Awards - 2007. Oscars.org, accessed January 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Knife Skill. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .
  4. ^ The 83rd Academy Awards - 2011. Oscars.org, accessed January 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ The 90th Academy Awards - 2018. Oscars.org, accessed January 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lennon, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH United States