In 1988, Bill Guttentag won an Oscar for Best Documentary with the HBO film about a boy’s battle with cancer, You Don’t Have to Die. He obtained three Oscar nominations before winning another Oscar for his 2003 documentary Twin Towers and is the recipient of numerous awards, among them two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and a Robert Kennedy Journalism Award. His films have screened and garnered awards at numerous American and international film festivals, and have enjoyed special screenings internationally and in the U.S., including at the White House. He is the creator and executive producer (along with Dick Wolf ) of the NBC series Crime and Punishment, which ran from 2002-2004. In 2007, Guttentag directed two films: Live!, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, starring Eva Mendes, Andre Braugher David Krumholtz, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jay Hernandez; and Nanking, a documentary about the Rape of Nanking during World War II, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Nanking won awards at Sundance and other film festivals, earned Guttentag a Writers Guild of America Award nomination, and went on to become the highest grossing theatrical documentary in Chinese history. Guttentag’s most recent film is Soundtrack for a Revolution, a film about music and the Civil Rights Movement. The film had its international premiere at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Since 2001, Guttentag has taught a course on the film and television business at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He recently completed his first novel, Boulevard, which will be published in 2010.
In 1988, Bill Guttentag won an Oscar for Best Documentary with the HBO film about a boy’s battle with cancer, You Don’t Have to Die. He obtained three Oscar nominations before winning another Oscar for his 2003 documentary Twin Towers and is the recipient of numerous awards, among them two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and a Robert Kennedy Journalism Award. His films have screened and garnered awards at numerous American and international film festivals, and have enjoyed special screenings internationally and in the U.S., including at the White House. He is the creator and executive producer (along with Dick Wolf ) of the NBC series Crime and Punishment, which ran from 2002-2004. In 2007, Guttentag directed two films: Live!, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, starring Eva Mendes, Andre Braugher David Krumholtz, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jay Hernandez; and Nanking, a documentary about the Rape of Nanking during World War II, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Nanking won awards at Sundance and other film festivals, earned Guttentag a Writers Guild of America Award nomination, and went on to become the highest grossing theatrical documentary in Chinese history. Guttentag’s most recent film is Soundtrack for a Revolution, a film about music and the Civil Rights Movement. The film had its international premiere at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Since 2001, Guttentag has taught a course on the film and television business at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He recently completed his first novel, Boulevard, which will be published in 2010.
