D. A. Pennebaker
American filmmaker (1925-2019) · United States · On the map · Directors · Died at 94
Donn Alan Pennebaker was an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of direct cinema. Performing arts and politics were his primary subjects. In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.
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Unlocking the CageFilm, Director2013Academy Honorary AwardAward2008
The Return of the War RoomFilm, Director2006
Al Franken: God SpokeFilm, Producer2002
Monterey Pop - The Outtake PerformancesFilm, Director1997
StoryvilleSeries, Director
Moon Over BroadwayFilm, 1997Director1993
The War RoomFilm, Director1991
Jerry Lee Lewis: The Story of Rock and RollFilm, Director1987
Jimi Plays MontereyFilm, Director1980Guggenheim FellowshipAward1979
The Energy WarSeries, Director
Town Bloody HallFilm, 1979Director, Producer1970
Original Cast Album: CompanyFilm, Director1967
Bob Dylan - Don't Look BackFilm, Director, Writer1961
Adventures on the New FrontierFilm, Director1960
ABC Close-Up!Series, Director1957
Daybreak ExpressFilm, Director, Writer1925Born15 July 1925People around D. A. Pennebaker
- Alan Douglas Produced Sweet Toronto and Jimi Plays Monterey
Richard Leacock Also in Adventures on the New Frontier (1961)- Bob Neuwirth D. A. Pennebaker directed 65 Revisited (2007)
Robert Drew Produced Adventures on the New Frontier (1961)
R. J. Cutler Produced The War Room (1993)
Joan Baez D. A. Pennebaker directed 65 Revisited (2007)
John Phillips Produced Monterey Pop (1968)
Norman Mailer Directed Wild 90 (1968)
Bob Dylan D. A. Pennebaker directed 65 Revisited (2007)
Martin Scorsese Directed American Masters
Robert Wuhl D. A. Pennebaker directed Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl
Lou Adler Produced Monterey Pop (1968)
T Bone Burnett Produced Down from the Mountain (2001)- Shirley Clarke Produced Skyscraper (1959)
Ethan Coen Produced Down from the Mountain (2001)
Joel Coen Produced Down from the Mountain (2001)
Daniel Miller Produced Depeche Mode: 101 (1989)
Willard Van Dyke Produced Skyscraper (1959)
Robert B. Weide Directed American Masters
Morgan Neville Directed American Masters
Perry Miller Adato Directed American Masters
Chuck Workman Directed American Masters
Hiro Narita Directed American Masters- Karen Goodman Directed American Masters
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan 2005
Monterey Pop 1968
Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back 1967
Janis: Little Girl Blue 2015
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 1983
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The Independent called Pennebaker "arguably the pre-eminent chronicler of Sixties counterculture".
