John Korty

Directing

Born: 1936-06-22

Died: 2022-03-09

From: Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Gender: Male

Popularity: 0.4

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Korty (born July 22, 1936 – March 9, 2022) is an American film director and animator, best known for the television film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the documentary Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, as well as the theatrical animated feature Twice Upon a Time. He has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (for Who Are the DeBolts?) and several other major awards. He is described by the film critic Leonard Maltin as "a principled filmmaker who has worked both outside and within the mainstream, attempting to find projects that support his humanistic beliefs". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Korty,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & Nominations4 won · 4 nominated

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1986

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

1978

🏆 Won

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

1978

Nominated

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

1978

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

1974

Nominated

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

The People

1973

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Breaking the Habit

1965

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

John Korty

Biography

Awards & Nominations4 won · 4 nominated

Acting3 titles

Slaying the Dragon

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

The Animators

Directing48 titles

Forever

Oklahoma City: A Survivor's Story

Breaking the Habit

Winnie

They

Imogen Cunningham, photographer

Second Sight: A Love Story

Cast the First Stone

The Music School

Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story

Eye on the Sparrow

Twice Upon a Time

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Redwood Curtain

Keeping Secrets

Long Road Home

A Son's Promise

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

Resting Place

The Haunting Passion

Class of '63

Farewell to Manzanar

A Deadly Business

The Language of Faces

The Ewok Adventure

Ms. Scrooge

Riverrun

A Christmas Without Snow

The People

Go Ask Alice

Deadly Matrimony

The Crazy-Quilt

Getting Out

Funnyman

Oliver's Story

Alex & the Gypsy

Angry Annie

A Scrap of Paper and a Piece of String

The Owl and the Pussycat

The Dragon's Tears

Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn

Q for Quiet

T for Typewriter, Toe

Bark in the Dark

Pat the Pilot

Crocodile eating crackers

Join a Daisy

Any, Many, and Man

Writing10 titles

Imogen Cunningham, photographer

The Music School

Twice Upon a Time

Farewell to Manzanar

Riverrun

A Christmas Without Snow

The Crazy-Quilt

Funnyman

Oliver's Story

Pat the Pilot

Production6 titles

Vietnam Requiem

Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

A Christmas Without Snow

The Dragon's Tears

Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn

Camera2 titles

The Ewok Adventure

Funnyman

Visual Effects2 titles

Twice Upon a Time

Funnyman