Awards & Winners

Timothy Grucza

Date of Birth 01-July-1976
Place of Birth Melbourne
(Victoria, Australia, Oceania)
Nationality Australia
Also know as Tim Grucza
Profession Film Producer, Cinematographer, Documentary Filmmaker
Timothy Grucza is a cameraman and documentary film maker. He is best known for his work in conflict zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently based in Paris, France. Grucza began his career in Australia, working on issues in the South Pacific including civil unrest in West Papua. In 1999 he documented repatriated Kosovan Australian refugees, who had escaped the war in Kosovo and were granted safe haven in Australia. He began covering Iraq in 2002 when he entered the Kurdish enclave in the north of the country. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq Grucza worked as a correspondent for the French network Canal+. Since then he has worked extensively in Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Pakistan and Afghanistan for PBS Frontline. In 2006, along with Yuri Maldavsky, Grucza released his first feature length documentary film named White Platoon. The film is a unique look at a platoon of soldiers who spend one year in Baghdad, entering as idealistic young men and leaving as cynical, sometimes bitter, veterans. The film won best Feature Length Documentary at the Banff World Television Festival and was selected for the Hot Docs Canadian international documentary film festival.

Awards by Timothy Grucza

Check all the awards nominated and won by Timothy Grucza.

2009


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography – News Coverage/Documentaries
Honored for : Frontline
(The War Briefing, Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematography)