Bill Couturié
William Couturié is a film director and producer, best known for his work in the field of documentary film.
Accolades[]
He won the 1989 Academy Award-winning documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt[1] that he produced with Rob Epstein[2] and multiple Emmy-Awards for his 1987 film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, which he wrote, produced, and directed.[3]
Other works[]
Couturié was an early collaborator of filmmaker John Korty, working on his 1983 animated feature, Twice Upon a Time alongside George Lucas. He recently co-produced and directed the film Guru of Go, a documentary for the ESPN 30 for 30 series about Paul Westhead' s unorthodox fast break basketball offense at Loyola Marymount University called "The System" featuring Gregory "Bo" Kimble and the late Hank Gathers.
Filmography[]
- Can't It Be Anyone Else (1980); producer
- Porklips Now (1980): producer
- Twice Upon a Time (1983); producer and writer
- Vietnam Requiem (1984); director and producer
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987); director, producer and writer[4]
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989); producer
- Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers (1991); director and producer
- Earth and the American Dream (FI) (1992); director, producer and writer[5]
- Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (1994); executive producer
- Ed (1996); director and executive producer
- A Place at the Table (2001); executive producer
- Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (2002); executive producer
- The West Wing Documentary Special (2002); director and writer
- Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq (2004); director and producer[6]
- Into the Fire (2005); director and writer
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); director, producer and writer
- The Alzheimer's Project (2009); director and producer (1 episode)
- Guru of Go (2010); director and producer (featured on 30 for 30)[7]
- Thumbs (2011); director
References[]
- ^ 1990|Oscars.org
- ^ Documentary Winners: 1990 Oscars
- ^ Bill Couturie|Television Academy
- ^ Review/Film; Words Bearing Witness: 'Letters Home From Vietnam' - The New York Times
- ^ Earth and the American Dream (DVD) - Direct Cinema Limited
- ^ Familoies Share Soldiers' 'Last Letters Home' : NPR
- ^ Guru of Go - ESPN Films: 30 for 30
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- Living people
- American film directors
- American film producers
- American documentary filmmakers