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Cynthia Scott

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Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter and editor (b. 1939)

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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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Filmography 2

The Jews of Winnipeg1973
Ruth and Harriet: Two Women of the Peace1973

Awards 2

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

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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.

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Canada
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
living
Dates
Born 1939 · age 87
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