Chuck Workman
Chuck Workman is a documentary filmmaker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His 1986 film Precious Images won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film; his work has also been nominated for Emmy Awards, Sundance Film Festival awards, and the Taos Talking Film Festival awards. Workman frequently creates the montages seen on the televised Academy Awards shows, including the in memoriam segment.
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- Name
- Chuck Workman
- Occupation
- Filmmaker
- Known for
- Precious Images, The Source
- Born
- 2000 · Philadelphia.
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
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He is sometimes credited as Carl Workman. He is the father of filmmaker Jeremy Workman.
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Chuck Workman appears in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a director.
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• Name — Chuck Workman • Occupation — Filmmaker • Known for — Precious Images, The Source
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• 1984: The Director and the Image • 1984: The Director and the Actor • 1986: Precious Images (2009 National Film Registry inductee) • 1986: Stoogemania • 1987: The Best Show in Town • 1987: Words • 1989: 50 Years of Bugs Bunny in 3½ Minutes • 1994: 100 Years at the Movies • 1999: The Source • 2003: A House on a Hill • 2010: Visionaries • 2013: What Is Cinema? • 2014: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
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- Philadelphia
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- 1."Precious Images" winning the Oscar® for Live Action Short
- 2.Cohen, Sandy. Oscar's 'In Memoriam' segment is touching to watch, painful to make. USA Today. 2010-03-03.
- 3.The Source. The A.V. Club. 29 March 2002.
- 4.Visionaries|2010 Tribeca Festival|Tribeca
- 5.Harvey, Dennis. Film Review: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles. Variety. Penske Media Corporation. October 20, 2014.
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