Awards & Winners

Bill Couturié

William "Bill" Couturié is a film director and producer, best known for the Academy Award-winning documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt which he produced and his multi-Emmy-Award-winning film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, which he wrote, produced, and directed. Couturié was an early collaborator of filmmaker John Korty, working on his 1983 animated feature, Twice Upon a Time alongside George Lucas. He recently co-produced and directed the film Guru of Go, a documentary for the ESPN 30 for 30 series about Paul Westhead' s unorthodox fast break basketball offense at Loyola Marymount University called "The System" featuring Gregory "Bo" Kimble and the late Hank Gathers.

Awards by Bill Couturié

Check all the awards nominated and won by Bill Couturié.

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking Last Letters Home
Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking

2002


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Programs
Honored for : The West Wing
(Documentary Special)

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Programs The West Wing
Documentary Special

1993


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming
Honored for : Earth and the American Dream

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming Earth and the American Dream

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

1989


Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
Honored for : Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

1988


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special
Honored for : Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming
Honored for : Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
(Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational)

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam