CW
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American film editor and documentary filmmaker
A.K.A.
Carl Workman
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Male
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(Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA)
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
The details
Biography
Introduction
Chuck Workman is a documentary filmmaker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. His 1986 film Precious Images won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film ; his work has also been nominated for Emmy Awards, Sundance Film Festival awards, and the Taos Talking Film Festival awards.
Workman frequently creates the montages seen on the televised Academy Awards shows, including the in memoriam segment. He is sometimes credited as Carl Workman.He is the father of filmmaker Jeremy Workman.
Select filmography
- 1986: Precious Images (2009 National Film Registry inductee)
- 1987: Words
- 1989: 50 Years of Bugs Bunny in 3½ Minutes
- 1994: 100 Years at the Movies
- 1999: The Source
- 2003: A House on a Hill
- 2010: Visionaries
- 2013: What Is Cinema?
- 2014: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles