# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cynthia-scott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:35:25.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cynthia-scott"
name: "Cynthia Scott"
slug: "cynthia-scott"
description: "Cynthia Scott is a Canadian award-winning filmmaker who has produced, directed, written, and edited several films with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Her works have won the Oscar and Canadian Film Award. Scott is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Her projects with the NFB are mainly focused on documentary filmmaking. Some of Scott's most notable documentaries for the NFB feature dancing and the dance world including Flamenco at 5:15 (1983), which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 56th Academy Awards in 1984. She is married to filmmaker John N. Smith; their son is actor Dylan Smith."
tagline: "Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter and editor (b. 1939)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.17
  momentum:             0.5921052631578947
  historical:           7.011592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778993/"
    handle:    "nm0778993"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA%DA%BE%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%B9"
    title: "سنتھیا سکاٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "سينثيا سكوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "سينثيا سكوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Scott"
    title: "Cynthia Scott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Scott"
    title: "Cynthia Scott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Scott"
    title: "Cynthia Scott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Scott"
    title: "Cynthia Scott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2790955"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4508930"
    title: "Cynthia Scott"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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