Chuck Workman is a documentary filmmaker from

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, Pennsylvania. His 1986 film '' Precious Images'' won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film; his work has also been nominated for

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awards, and the Taos Talking Film Festival awards. Workman frequently creates the montages seen on the televised

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shows, including the in memoriam segment. He is sometimes credited as Carl Workman. He is the father of filmmaker Jeremy Workman.

Selected filmography

* 1984: ''The Director and the Image'' * 1984: ''The Director and the Actor'' * 1986: '' Precious Images'' (2009

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inductee) * 1986: '' Stoogemania'' * 1987: ''The Best Show in Town'' * 1987: ''Words'' * 1989: ''50 Years of Bugs Bunny in 3½ Minutes'' * 1994: ''100 Years at the Movies'' * 1999: '' The Source'' * 2003: '' A House on a Hill'' * 2010: ''Visionaries'' * 2013: ''What Is Cinema?'' * 2014: '' Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles''

References

External links

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Chuck Workman
at The Film-Makers' Cooperative
King of Condensed Films: Meet Chuck Workman, The Oscars' Montage Master - NPR article
{{DEFAULTSORT:Workman, Chuck Collage filmmakers American documentary filmmakers American film editors Directors of Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners Living people Artists from Philadelphia Year of birth missing (living people)