# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adam-benzine
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:23:35.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adam-benzine"
name: "Adam Benzine"
slug: "adam-benzine"
description: "Adam Benzine is a British filmmaker and journalist. He is known for his HBO documentary Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, which examined the life and work of French director Claude Lanzmann. The film received critical appraisal and widespread acclaim including an Oscar nomination in the Best Documentary category at the 88th Academy Awards, and nominations from the Grierson Awards, the Canadian Screen Awards, the IDA Documentary Awards, the Banff Rockie Awards and the Cinema Eye Honors.The documentary took four years to complete. Benzine's interview with Lanzmann was Lanzmann's first since 1985, the year Shoah was finished."
tagline: "British filmmaker and journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1982-05-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.335961333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/adambenzine"
    handle:    "adambenzine"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6887155/"
    handle:    "nm6887155"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%88%D9%85_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%86"
    title: "ایڈم بینزائن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Benzine"
    title: "Adam Benzine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Benzine"
    title: "Adam Benzine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "آدام بنزین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Benzine"
    title: "Adam Benzine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Benzine"
    title: "Adam Benzine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22075560"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1563238"
    title: "Adam Benzine"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump