Bill Guttentag is a two-time Oscar winning documentary and feature film writer-producer-director.
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Career
In 1988, Guttentag won an Oscar for Best Documentary with his HBO film "You Don't Have to Die," telling the story of one boy's battle against cancer.[1] Guttentag would receive three more Oscar nominations before winning another Oscar for his 2003 documentary "Twin Towers (film)."
In 2007, Guttentag directed two films–Live! (2007_film), which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, starring Eva Mendes, Andre Braugher David Krumholtz, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jay Hernandez; and Nanking, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, a documentary about the Rape of Nanking during World War II.
Nanking was shortlisted for an Academy Award, won awards at Sundance Film Festival and other film festivals, earned Guttentag a Writers Guild of America Award nomination, and went on to become the highest grossing theatrical documentary in Chinese history.[2] Nanking also won a George Foster Peabody award in 2009[3].
Live! had its international Premiere at the Deauville Film Festival and will be distributed in the US by The Weinstein Company. Its international distribution included Lions Gate Entertainment (UK) and Pretty pictures (France).
Guttentag created and executive produced the NBC series Crime & Punishment, which ran from 2002-2004. The show, a reality television spin-off of the Law & Order franchise, followed District Attorneys in San Diego County, California.
Guttentag has recently completed his first novel, Boulevard, which will be published by Pegasus Books in February 2010. [4]
Gutentag's most recent film is Soundtrack for a Revolution, a film about music and the Civil Rights Movement. The film features performances by John Legend, Joss Stone, The Roots, Blind Boys of Alabama, Richie Havens and Wyclef Jean [5]. Soundtrack for a Revolution had its international premiere at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and its US premiere at the Tribecca Film festival.
Guttentag's films have been selected for the Sundance Film Festival three times and have played and won awards at numerous American and international film festivals.
Since 2001, Guttentag has taught a class on the film and television business at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
Selected Filmography
- "Live!" (2007)
- "Nanking (film)" (2007)
- "Soundtrack for a Revolution" (2009)
- "Crime and Punishment" (2002)
- "Twin Towers" (2003)
- "The Cocaine War: Lost in Bolivia" (1992)
- "Assassinated: the Last Days of Kennedy and King" (1998)
- "You Don't Have to Die" (1988)
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