Marshall Curry
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Marshall Curry
| Marshall Curry | |
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 Curry at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival |
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| Born | Summit, New Jersey |
Marshall Curry is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker from New Jersey.
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Filmography
His first feature-length film, Street Fight, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006[1] and a News and Documentary Emmy. His second film, Racing Dreams, won Best Documentary and was runner up for the Audience Award[2] at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009. His third film, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, won the award for Best Documentary Editing at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and earned him his second Academy Award nomination.
Early life
Curry grew up in Summit, New Jersey. graduating from Summit High School in 1988.[3] He attended Swarthmore College, graduating in 1992[4] having majored in comparative religion.[5] He was also a Jane Addams Fellow at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy.[6] Before his film-making success, Curry worked as senior producer at Icon Nicholson, a New York multimedia design firm.[7]
Curry lives in Brooklyn, New York.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Nomination at Oscars[dead link]
- ^ http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/
- ^ The Smartest Guy in Summit?, a March 5, 2006 article from The New York Times
- ^ Marshall Curry '92 Chases Racing Dreams, His Second Award-Winning Documentary from Swarthmore College
- ^ [1], a January 25, 2012 article from Swarthmore College News
- ^ Street Fight press kit from Human Rights Watch
- ^ http://www.pbs.org/pov/streetfight/bio.php
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