# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-a-robertson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:04:03.040Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-a-robertson"
name: "Hugh A. Robertson"
slug: "hugh-a-robertson"
description: "Hugh A. Robertson was an American film director and editor, born in Brooklyn, of Jamaican parents. While Robertson was credited as an editor for only three films, Midnight Cowboy earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing, making him the first African American person to be nominated for an Oscar in the editing category."
tagline: "Film director and editor (1932-1988)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bnaQ9TAoCBRN1fsZI6nQJEgWyTj.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1932-05-28"
deathDate: "1988-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.55
  momentum:             0.05376344086021506
  historical:           7.673398666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731867/"
    handle:    "nm0731867"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump