Terry Sanders
Terry Sanders (born December 20, 1931) is an American filmmaker having produced and/or directed more than 70 dramatic features, televisions specials, documentaries and portrait films. He co-heads the American Film Foundation and has produced and photographed the Oscar-winning dramatic short A Time Out of War. He also received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.[1] He also produced and co-directed Crime & Punishment, USA with his brother Denis Sanders. The debuting actors in "War Hunt" are Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack, and Tom Skerritt, which he also produced with Denis Sanders.
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Spouse(s) | Freida Lee Mock |
Currently in development is a dramatic feature film, Tokyo Rose/American Patriot, a World War II true-life story of Iva Ikuko Toguri who was wrongly convicted of treason.
Archive
The moving image collection of Terry Sanders is housed at the Academy Film Archive.[2]
Selected filmography
- The Eyes of Don Bachardy
- Return with Honor, presented by Tom Hanks
- Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
- Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (Oscar win) [3]
- Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age, narrated by Robert MacNeil (includes an interview with Tim Berners-Lee and Peter Norton of Norton Utilities)
- Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember, narrated by Edward Kennedy (Oscar nomination) [4]
- Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
- Screenwriters: Words Into Image
- War Hunt
- Crime & Punishment, USA
- A Time Out of War
- Copland Portrait, American Composer with Aaron Copland
- The Japan Project: Made in Japan
- Portrait of Zubin Mehta
- Fighting for Life
- Four Stones for Kanemitsu (Oscar nomination) [5]
- To Live or Let Die
See also
- American Film Foundation (Co-founder of)
- Denis Sanders
References
- "Winners & Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- "Terry Sanders Collection". Academy Film Archive.
- Documentary Winners: 1995 Oscars
- Documentary Winners: 1991 Oscars
- Documentary Winners: 1974 Oscars