# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-nichols
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:21:30.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-nichols"
name: "Bill Nichols"
slug: "bill-nichols"
description: "Bill Nichols is an American film critic and theoretician known for founding the contemporary study of documentary film. His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film for the first time. It was followed by additional books and essays. The first of his two-volume anthology Movies and Methods helped to establish film studies as an academic discipline."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Nichols.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.683190666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bill Nichols (Filmkritiker)"
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    title: "بيل نيكولز"
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    title: "بيل نيكولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nichols"
    title: "Bill Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nichols_(film_critic)"
    title: "Bill Nichols (film critic)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بیل نیکولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10860358"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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