14 Facts About Ezra Edelman

Ezra Benjamin Edelman was born on August 6,1974 and is an American documentary producer and director.

Ezra Edelman won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming for directing OJ.

Ezra Edelman has directed The Book of Prince, a documentary on the musician Prince, that remains unreleased.

Ezra Edelman is the son of Marian Wright Edelman, former civil rights leader and aide to Martin Luther King Jr.

Ezra Edelman has two brothers, Joshua, an educational administrator, and Jonah, co-founder and CEO of Stand for Children.

Ezra Edelman's parents were the third interracial marriage in Virginia after the US Supreme Court overturned the state's anti-miscegenation law in Loving v Virginia.

Ezra Edelman's paternal great-grandfather was a Polish rabbi who was killed during the Holocaust and his maternal grandfather was a Baptist minister; he was raised in both faiths.

Ezra Edelman is best known for producing and directing the Academy Award-winning 2016 documentary film OJ.

Ezra Edelman wrote and directed a special on the former Big East Conference called Requiem for the Big East, a part of the 30 for 30 series.

Ezra Edelman produced Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas, an HBO documentary series that ran for two seasons.

In 2024, Ezra Edelman produced Stax: Soulsville USA for HBO, revolving around Stax Records.

In 2018, it was reported that Ezra Edelman would be developing a biopic with writer Rowan Ricardo Phillips for Legendary Entertainment, based on the life of baseball player Roberto Clemente.

Over five years Ezra Edelman developed The Book of Prince a nine-hour, six-part documentary about the musician Prince.

Ezra Edelman was recruited to the project for Netflix in 2019 by Lisa Nishimura, then vice president of independent film and documentary features, with the promise of access to "the vault," Prince's archive of unreleased material.