Kevin Macdonald

Biography

Kevin Macdonald (born 28 October 1967) is a Scottish film director. His films include  One Day in September (1999), a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the climbing documentary Touching the Void (2003), the drama The Last King of Scotland (2006), the political thriller State of Play (2009), the Bob Marley documentary Marley (2012), the post-apocalyptic drama How I Live Now (2013), the thriller Black Sea (2014), the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney (2018), and the legal drama film The Mauritanian (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin Macdonald (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

• ☆European Film Award — Best Director · 2007 · nominated
• ☆European Film Award — Best Film · 2007 · nominated
• ☆European Film Award – People's Choice Award — Best European Film · 2007 · nominated
• ☆European Film Award — Best Documentary · 2000 · nominated