Kevin Macdonald
(United States)

Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish director. His films include a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, One Day in September (1999), the climbing documentary Touching the Void (2003), the drama The Last King of Scotland (2006), the political thriller State of Play (2009), and the Bob Marley documentary Marley (2012). He is making a Whitney Houston documentary which is scheduled to be released in 2018. His second feature Touching the Void won a BAFTA for Best British Film in 2003 and went on to become the most commercially successful documentary in the history of British cinema. The director’s feature film debut The Last King of Scotland garnered a BAFTA for Best British Film and Best Adapted Screenplay, and the actor in the lead role, Forest Whitaker, won an Oscar for Best Actor. He has written for the British papers The Guardian, The Observer and The Telegraph, and his book about his grandfather, Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter, was named Film Book of the Year 1994 by the British Film Institute.

Films
Filmography
Whitney
2018
Oasis
2017
11.22.63
2016
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang
2016
Black Sea
2014
Christmas in a Day
2013
How I Live Now
2013
Marley
2012
The Eagle
2011
Life in a Day
2011
State of Play
2009
Shallow Grave: Digging Your Own Grave
2009
My Enemy's Enemy
2007
The Last King of Scotland
2006
Touching the Void: Return to Siula Grande
2004
Touching the Void
2003
Being Mick
2001
A Brief History of Errol Morris
2000
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
2000
One Day in September
1999
Kindertransport
1998
Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance
1998
Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997
The Moving World of George Rickey
1997
Chaplin's Goliath
1996
The Making of an Englishman
1995

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