Bill Guttentag is an American dramatic and documentary film writer-producer-director. His films have premiered at the
Sundance,
Cannes
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,
Telluride and
Tribeca
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film festivals, and he has won two
Academy Awards
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.
Career
Guttentag won an Oscar for Best Documentary with his HBO film ''
You Don't Have to Die
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Production
Some scenes were animated by John Canemaker ...
'', telling the story of one boy's battle against cancer. Guttentag would receive three more Oscar nominations before winning another Oscar for his 2002 documentary ''
Twin Towers''.
In 2007, Guttentag directed two films – ''
Live!'', which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, starring
Eva Mendes
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,
Andre Braugher
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David Krumholtz
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Ear ...
,
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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,
Michelle Krusiec
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Early life
Krusiec was born in 1974 in Taiwan. She was adopted at age five and raised in America by her father's elder sister, who ha ...
, and
Jay Hernandez
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; and
Nanking
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, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, a documentary about the Rape of Nanking during World War II. ''Nanking'' featured
Woody Harrelson
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,
Mariel Hemingway
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,
Rosalind Chao
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,
Stephen Dorff
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, and
Jürgen Prochnow
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He is also known f ...
. It was shortlisted for an Academy Award, won awards at Sundance Film Festival and other film festivals, earned Guttentag a
Writers Guild of America Award
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Eligibility
Th ...
nomination for
Best Documentary Screenplay. The film went on to become the highest grossing theatrical documentary in Chinese history. ''Nanking'' was nominated for 3
Emmy Award
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s and won one Emmy Award. The film also won a
George Foster Peabody Award
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in 2009.
''Live!'' had its American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and its international premiere at the
Deauville Film Festival
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It was established by Lionel Cho ...
, and was distributed in the US by
The Weinstein Company
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. Its international distribution included
Lions Gate Entertainment
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(UK) and Pretty Pictures (France). ''Live!'' was produced by
Charles Roven
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and
Atlas Entertainment
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History
In 1990, Charles Roven and partner Bob Cavallo formed Roven/Cavallo Entertainment. At the same tim ...
.
Guttentag partnered with
Richard Linklater
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on
That Animal Rescue Show, on which they were executive producers and directors. The 10-part series, made for
CBS All Access
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, premiered in October, 2020. An episode from the series was part of the official selection of the 2020
Telluride Film Festival
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History
First held on 30 August 1974, th ...
.
Guttentag created and executive produced the NBC series ''
Crime & Punishment
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'', which ran for three seasons, 2002–2004. Guttentag was also a director on the series. The show, a non-fiction spin-off of the
Law & Order
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''Law & Order'' aired its entire run on NBC, premiering on ...
franchise, followed District Attorneys in San Diego County, California. The series was created with
Dick Wolf
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, who was also an executive producer. Over the series' run, most shows were in the Nielsen top 20, and several were in the top 10.
His novel ''Boulevard'', was published by Pegasus Books/W. W. Norton in 2011, and the French edition was published by
Éditions Gallimard
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Founded by Ga ...
(2013), where it was a finalist for the
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. He also co-wrote ''Masters of Disaster: The Ten Commandments of Damage Control'', with Democratic political consultant and presidential advisor
Chris Lehane, which was published in December 2012 by
Palgrave Macmillan
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. He has also written nonfiction pieces, including for ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'' and the ''
Los Angeles Times
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''.
Guttentag also directed ''
Soundtrack for a Revolution
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'', a film about music and the Civil Rights Movement. The film features performances by
John Legend
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,
Joss Stone
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,
The Roots
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,
Blind Boys of Alabama
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,
Richie Havens
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,
Mary Mary
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,
Anthony Hamilton and
Wyclef Jean
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. Soundtrack for a Revolution had its international premiere at the 2009
Cannes Film Festival
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, and its US premiere at
Tribeca Film festival
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. The film was produced and distributed internationally by
Wild Bunch
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and released theatrically in the U.S. by Area 23a, and later aired on PBS. Guttentag was nominated for WGA and Producers Guild Awards for the film, which also won awards at US and international film festivals. The film was short-listed for an Academy Award.
Guttentag's film, ''
Knife Fight
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'', which he directed and also wrote (with political consultant
Chris Lehane), stars
Rob Lowe
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,
Jamie Chung
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,
Julie Bowen
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,
Carrie-Anne Moss
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,
David Harbour
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,
Eric McCormack
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,
Jennifer Morrison
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,
Michelle Krusiec
Michelle Jacqueline Krusiec (born Ya-Huei Yang; ; October 2, 1974) is an American actress, writer and producer.
Early life
Krusiec was born in 1974 in Taiwan. She was adopted at age five and raised in America by her father's elder sister, who ha ...
, and
Saffron Burrows
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. The film is about a Democratic political consultant and was released by IFC in January 2013. The film premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, and also had special screenings at the
2012 Democratic National Convention
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and the
John F. Kennedy School of Government
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.
Guttentag has directed commercials and other work for a number of Silicon Valley companies, including
Google
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,
Yahoo!
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, and
MasterClass
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. He has been an advisor to MasterClass since before the company’s launch and he directed the premiere class with author
James Patterson
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. He also directed the third class with tennis star
Serena Williams
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.
He has directed 8 films for
HBO
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or
Cinemax
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, including
Nanking
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and Only the Dead See the End of War.
Guttentag has served on a number of film festival juries, including the
Shanghai International Film Festival
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"China's biggest film festival" according to the Hollywood Reporter. Nex ...
, The
Odesa International Film Festival
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and the
Morelia International Film Festival
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F ...
.
His film ''Only the Dead See the End of War'' premiered at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival and premiered on
HBO
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in March 2016. He won an
AACTA Award
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(Australian Academy Award) for Best Directing for a Documentary, and a
Walkley Award
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(Australian Pulitzer) for the film. The film also won an AACTA for Best Documentary and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2017.
Guttentag has shown his films and given lectures at many US and international universities, including: Yale, Harvard, the University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Pennsylvania; Peking University; Tsinghua University; Fudan University; Kyoto University; the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts; HEC Paris; and the Freie Universität Berlin. Other screenings include
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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;
The Council on Foreign Relations
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; the
Paley Center for Media
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; and the
Brooklyn Academy of Music
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.
Accolades
Guttentag's films have been selected for Sundance three times, Tribeca five times, Telluride twice, and have won awards at numerous American and international film festivals. They have also received a number of special screenings internationally and in the US, including at the
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
in New York, the
Stanford Law School
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, the
Harvard Kennedy School
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, and the
White House
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.
Guttentag has received two Academy Awards, three additional Academy Award nominations, a
Peabody Award
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, three Emmy Awards, two additional Emmy nominations, two
Writers Guild Award
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The ...
nominations, a
Producers Guild Award
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nomination, and a
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
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.
He taught at the
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school).
Guttentag has been a lecturer at the
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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since 2001.
Selected filmography
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*''
You Don't Have to Die
''You Don't Have to Die'' is a 1988 American short documentary film about a young boy (Jason Gaes) and his successful battle against cancer, directed by Malcolm Clarke and Bill Guttentag.
Production
Some scenes were animated by John Canemaker ...
'' (1988)
*''
Crack USA: County Under Siege'' (1989)
*''The Cocaine War: Lost in Bolivia'' (1992)
*''Assassinated: the Last Days of Kennedy and King'' (1998)
*''
Crime & Punishment
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'' (2002)
*''
Twin Towers'' (2002)
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*'' Live!'' (2007)
*''Nanking
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'' (2007)
*''Soundtrack for a Revolution
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'' (2009)
*''Knife Fight
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'' (2012)
*''Only the Dead'' (2015)
*''Sublime'' (2019)
* '' That Animal Rescue Show'' (2020)
* '' Groomed'' (2021)
References
External links
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American film producers
Living people
Directors of Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
American film directors
Year of birth missing (living people)