Awards & Winners

Perry Miller Adato

Profession Film Director
Perry Miller Adato is an award-winning American documentary film producer and director and writer. She won an Emmy in 1968 for her first film, Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe and won two Emmy nominations for Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me in 1970. In 1980 she won an Emmy nomination for Picasso-A Painter's Diary. She was the first woman ever to win the coveted Directors Guild of America Award for Georgia O'Keeffe. Adato was born Lillian Perry Miller in Yonkers, New York. At age 18 she moved to Greenwich Village. She married Neil M. Adato on September 11, 1955. They had two children, Lauren and Michelle.

Awards by Perry Miller Adato

Check all the awards nominated and won by Perry Miller Adato.

1986


Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries
Honored for : Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts

1982


Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries
Honored for : Echoes and Silences

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries Echoes and Silences

1980


Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries
Honored for : Picasso: A Painter's Diary

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries Picasso: A Painter's Diary
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Program Picasso: A Painter's Diary

1977


Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries
Honored for : Georgia O'Keeffe

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries Georgia O'Keeffe