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Cynthia Scott

Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter and editor · Canada · On the map · Directors · Born 1939 · age 87

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.

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Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)1984
Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

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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.

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Directors
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Movie Director
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Born 1939 · age 87

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