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词条 Aviva Slesin
释义

  1. Career

     Documentaries 

  2. Films

  3. Awards

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

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Aviva Slesin is a documentary film-maker.

Slesin was awarded the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary for her film The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table in 1987.[1] She is member of the Directors Guild of America and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Slesin has been a MacDowell Fellow [2] and has had a retrospective of her work shown at the Sundance Film Festival [3] She is a member of the faculty at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Slesin is also a painter.[4]

Career

Documentaries

Slesin's career was launched in 1975 as a freelance film editor with A China Memoir,[5] produced by Shirley MacLaine and nominated that year for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Next, she edited Making Television Dance [6] about choreographer Twyla Tharp, followed in 1977 by The Rutles, a Beatles satire directed by Monty Python’s Eric Idle.[7]

In 1980, Slesin made the transition to independent Producer/Director with nine comedy shorts for the original Saturday Night Live.[8] In 1986, she directed and edited Directed by William Wyler,[9] a biography of the late Hollywood director.

In 1987, Slesin won an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary for her film The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table. Then, 1990 marked a shift to dramatic films when Slesin directed and executive produced Stood Up! an ABC Afterschool Special.[10] Then Slesin produced and directed Voices in Celebration,[11] a documentary for the National Gallery’s fiftieth anniversary. And in 1993 and 1994, she produced and directed the documentary, Sex, Love and Romance in the Old West[12] for TBS.

During 1995 to 1998, Slesin produced and directed a series of short segments for The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Kids Talk, John Hockenberry's Edgewise, HBO’s Real Sex, and Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.[13]

In 2003, Slesin produced, directed, and narrated Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII,[14] which was nominated for two Emmys [15] and won a Christopher Award.[16]

Films

  • Directed by William Wyler (1986)
  • The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table (1987)
  • Stood Up (1990)
  • Voices in Celebration (1980)
  • Hot on The Trial: Sex, Love and Romance in the Old West (1993)
  • Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII (2003)

Awards

  • Academy Award (Oscar)
  • Inspirational Film Award, Hamptons International Film Festival
  • Lilian Gish Award, Los Angeles Women in Film Festival
  • Christopher Award

See also

  • Documentary film

References

1. ^[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0805754/awards], "IMDB"
2. ^  {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526052307/http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php |date=2009-05-26 }}, "MacDowell Colony"
3. ^ , "New York University, Tisch School of the Arts"
4. ^ , "Apartment Therapy"
5. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073495/fullcredits#cast], "IMDB - The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir"
6. ^ , "Because Films Inspire"
7. ^ , "Rutle Mania"
8. ^ , "New York University, Tisch School of the Arts - Aviva Slesin"
9. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090947/], "IMDB - Directed by William Wyler"
10. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381623/], "IMDB - Stood Up!"
11. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Celebration-VHS-Aviva-Slesin/dp/B00000F7QL], "Amazon - Voices of Celebration"
12. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322618/], "IMDB - Hot on the Trail"
13. ^ , "New York University, Tisch School of the Arts - Aviva Slesin"
14. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/garden/at-home-with-aviva-slesin-sharing-the-secrets-of-the-hidden-children.html], "New York Times", Witchel, Alex, October 2, 2002.
15. ^[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0805754/awards], "IMDB"
16. ^  {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150304040438/http://www.christophers.org/page.aspx?pid=258 |date=2015-03-04 }}, "The Christophers - Archives"

External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.avivaslesin.com/}}
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