1. Bill Guttentag is an American dramatic and documentary film writer-producer-director.
17 Facts About Bill Guttentag
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Bill Guttentag's films have premiered at the Sundance, Cannes, Telluride and Tribeca film festivals, and he has won two Academy Awards.
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Bill Guttentag would receive three more Oscar nominations before winning another Oscar for his 2002 documentary Twin Towers.
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Bill Guttentag directed, co-wrote and co-produced the dramatic feature Rule Breakers, which will be theatrically released by Angel Studios in Spring 2025.
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Bill Guttentag partnered with Richard Linklater on That Animal Rescue Show, on which they were executive producers and directors.
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Bill Guttentag 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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Bill Guttentag has written nonfiction pieces, including for The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
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Bill Guttentag directed Soundtrack for a Revolution, a film about music and the Civil Rights Movement.
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Bill Guttentag was nominated for WGA and Producers Guild Awards for the film, which won awards at US and international film festivals.
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Bill Guttentag 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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Bill Guttentag directed the third class with tennis star Serena Williams.
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Bill Guttentag has directed 8 films for HBO or Cinemax, including Nanking and Only the Dead See the End of War.
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Bill Guttentag has served on a number of film festival juries, including the Shanghai International Film Festival, The Odesa International Film Festival and the Morelia International Film Festival.
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Bill Guttentag won an AACTA Award for Best Directing for a Documentary, and a Walkley Award for the film.
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Bill 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 Universitat Berlin.
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Bill 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.
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Bill Guttentag has been a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2001.