1. Jon Alpert was born on c December 13,1948 and is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinema verite approach in his films.
10 Facts About Jon Alpert
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Jon Alpert has won four DuPont-Columbia Awards and a Peabody Award.
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Jon Alpert has been nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province.
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Jon Alpert was nominated for a 2013 Academy Award in the same category for Redemption.
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Between 1979 and 1991, Jon Alpert was the sole freelance video documentarist regularly featured on network television.
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In 1991, while employed by NBC, Jon Alpert was the first American journalist to bring back uncensored video footage from the first Persian Gulf War.
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The footage, much of it focusing on civilian casualties, was cancelled three hours before it was supposed to be aired, and Jon Alpert was fired soon after.
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Jon Alpert was one of the few Western journalists to have conducted a videotaped interview with Saddam Hussein since the Persian Gulf War.
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Jon Alpert has been nominated for an Oscar award on two occasions, once in 2010 for Documentary short, China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province and again in 2013 for Redemption.
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Jon Alpert has broken almost every bone in his body pursuing his hobbies of playing hockey, doing karate and getting bucked off horses.