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Biography
Peter Watkins was an English filmmaker, documentarian, writer and film theorist. He is known as a pioneer of the docudrama and the mockumentary genres, typically with heavy political content. His films present pacifist and radical ideas in a nontraditional style. He mainly concentrated his works and ideas around the mass media and viewers' relation to and participation in a movie or television documentary.
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Awards & recognition
- Berliner Kunstpreis · 1976
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 1966
