Awards & Winners

Gordon Quinn

Date of Birth 1942
Place of Birth Washington, D.C.
(United States of America, United States, with Territories, Contiguous United States, Area code 202)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Cinematographer, Film Producer, Film director, Television Producer, Film Editor
Gordon Quinn is Artistic Director and founding member of Kartemquin Films, a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Gordon Quinn has been making documentaries for over 45 years and has produced or directed over 30 films. His recent directing credits include Prisoner of Her Past and A Good Man. His producing credits include the films Hoop Dreams; In the Family;Vietnam, Long Time Coming; Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes; 5 Girls; Refrigerator Mothers; and Stevie. Most recently, Gordon executive produced Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita and The New Americans, for which he directed the Palestinian segment. Currently, he is Executive Producing several new films for Kartemquin. Gordon has been a long-time supporter of public media and community-based independent media groups, and served on the boards of several organizations including the National Coalition of Public Broadcast Producers, the Citizens Committee on the Media, the Chicago Access Corporation, the Illinois Humanities Council, the Public Square Advisory Committee and the Illinois Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Awards by Gordon Quinn

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gordon Quinn.

2013


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form
Honored for : Frontline
(The Interrupters)

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form Independent Lens
As Goes Janesville
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form Frontline
The Interrupters

1998


Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries
Honored for : Vietnam, Long Time Coming

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries Vietnam, Long Time Coming
Seventh Arts Releasing

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special Higher Goals