Bill Guttentag is an American dramatic and documentary film
writer-producer-director. His films have premiered at the Sundance,
Cannes, Telluride and Tribeca film festivals, and he has won two
Academy Awards.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. Guttentag would receive three more Oscar nominations
before winning another Oscar for his 2002 documentary Twin Towers.In
2007, Guttentag directed two films â€" Live!, 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 featured Woody Harrelson,
Mariel Hemingway and Jürgen Prochnow. It was shortlisted (and
eventually nominated) for an Academy Award, won awards at Sundance
Film Festival and other film festivals, earned Guttentag a Writers
Guild of America Award nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay, and
went on to become the highest grossing theatrical documentary in
Chinese history. Nanking also won an Emmy Award and a George Foster
Peabody Award in 2009.
writer-producer-director. His films have premiered at the Sundance,
Cannes, Telluride and Tribeca film festivals, and he has won two
Academy Awards.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. Guttentag would receive three more Oscar nominations
before winning another Oscar for his 2002 documentary Twin Towers.In
2007, Guttentag directed two films â€" Live!, 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 featured Woody Harrelson,
Mariel Hemingway and Jürgen Prochnow. It was shortlisted (and
eventually nominated) for an Academy Award, won awards at Sundance
Film Festival and other film festivals, earned Guttentag a Writers
Guild of America Award nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay, and
went on to become the highest grossing theatrical documentary in
Chinese history. Nanking also won an Emmy Award and a George Foster
Peabody Award in 2009.
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