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Robert Greenwald is an American television, feature film and documentary filmmaker. Greenwald is founder and president of Brave New Films, a "new media company that uses moving images to educate, influence, and empower viewers to take action around issues that matter". He has produced and/or directed more than 65 TV movies, miniseries and films as well as major theatrical releases. His early body of work includes Steal This Movie, starring Vincent D'Onofrio as 60s radical Abbie Hoffman; Breaking Up, starring Russell Crowe and Salma Hayek; The Burning Bed with Farah Fawcett; and A Woman of Independent Means with Sally Fields. With BNF, he has made investigative documentaries such as Uncovered: The War on Iraq, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, Rethink Afghanistan, Koch Brothers Exposed, and War on Whistleblowers, as well as many short investigative films and internet campaigns. His eighth feature-length documentary, Unmanned: America's Drone Wars, was released in October 2013.
His work has earned him 25 Emmy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, the Peabody Award and the Robert Wood Johnson Award. He was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute. He has been honored for his investigative film work by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California; the Liberty Hill Foundation; the Los Angeles chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; Physicians for Social Responsibility; Consumer Attorney's Association of Los Angeles; Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and the Office of the Americas.
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