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Thomas Lennon

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Thomas Lennon’s work in documentary film has earned him an Academy Award and four Academy nominations, as well as national Emmys, two duPont-Columbia awards and two George Foster Peabody awards.

In 2017, Lennon completed Knife Skills, a film about a high-end French restaurant staffed almost entirely by men and women with criminal records, which was nominated for an Academy Award. His film Sacred, which explored the role of prayer and ritual in daily life, drew on contributions of 40 filmmaking teams around the world. After premiering at the Tokyo Film Festival, and screening at 25 international festivals, it is due to air on PBS in 2018.

Lennon, in partnership with Ruby Yang, made a trilogy of films set in China, including The Blood of Yingzhou District, which won an Oscar in 2007, and The Warriors of Qiugang, nominated for an Oscar in 2011. This film follows a farmer’s multi-year campaign to halt the poisoning of his village’s water and land; two weeks after the film’s nomination, the local authorities announced a massive multi-year cleanup of the toxic site that averted untold numbers of deaths. He and Yang founded the China AIDS Media Project; their groundbreaking AIDS awareness messages were seen over a billion times on Chinese television and the Internet, probably the largest AIDS campaign in the history of the disease.

He created two documentary series for PBS: Becoming American, with Bill Moyers, tracing the Chinese experience from the early 19th century to the present-day, and The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (1998.) made for the Disney Co. His first Oscar nomination was for the feature documentary The Battle over Citizen Kane (1996), which screened at Sundance and Berlin.

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Filmography

Actor

5

Type

Year

The Oscars Poster

The Oscars TV Special2018

Festival Road Trip Poster

Festival Road Trip TV Series2008

The 79th Annual Academy Awards Poster

The 79th Annual Academy Awards TV Special2007

Doc Talk Poster

Doc Talk TV Series2006

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Poster

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson TV Series2005

Producer

17

Type

Year

We Are Suns Short Film2022

Knife Skills Poster

Knife Skills Documentary2017

Sacred Documentary2016

Angle of Attack: How Naval Aviation Changed the Face of War Poster

Angle of Attack: How Naval Aviation Changed the Face of War Documentary2011

The Warriors of Qiugang Poster

The Warriors of Qiugang Documentary2010

Tongzhi in Love Poster

Tongzhi in Love Documentary2008

Terry Sanford and the New South Poster

Terry Sanford and the New South Documentary2007

Chung to: Close Up & Personal Poster

Chung to: Close Up & Personal Documentary2006

The Blood of Yingzhou District Poster

The Blood of Yingzhou District Short Film2006

Julia's Story Poster

Julia's Story Documentary2005

Yao Ming and Children Affected b HIV/AIDS Poster

Yao Ming and Children Affected b HIV/AIDS Documentary2005

Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Poster

Becoming American: The Chinese Experience TV Series2003

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives Poster

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives Documentary2003

The Irish in America: Long Journey Home Poster

The Irish in America: Long Journey Home Mini-Series1998

American Experience Poster

American Experience Mini-Series1988

Frontline Poster

Frontline TV Series1983

ABC News Close-Up Poster

ABC News Close-Up TV Series1960

Director

13

Type

Year

Knife Skills Poster

Knife Skills Documentary2017

Sacred Documentary2016

The Trail from Xinjiang Poster

The Trail from Xinjiang Documentary2013

Angle of Attack: How Naval Aviation Changed the Face of War Poster

Angle of Attack: How Naval Aviation Changed the Face of War Documentary2011

Terry Sanford and the New South Poster

Terry Sanford and the New South Documentary2007

The Supreme Court Poster

The Supreme Court TV Series2007

Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Poster

Becoming American: The Chinese Experience TV Series2003

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives Poster

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives Documentary2003

The Irish in America: Long Journey Home Poster

The Irish in America: Long Journey Home Mini-Series1998

The Irish in America Poster

The Irish in America Documentary1995

American Experience Poster

American Experience Mini-Series1988

To Save Our Schools, to Save Our Children Documentary1984

Frontline Poster

Frontline TV Series1983

Writer

9

Type

Year

Angle of Attack: How Naval Aviation Changed the Face of War Poster

Angle of Attack: How Naval Aviation Changed the Face of War Documentary2011

The Warriors of Qiugang Poster

The Warriors of Qiugang Documentary2010

Terry Sanford and the New South Poster

Terry Sanford and the New South Documentary2007

Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Poster

Becoming American: The Chinese Experience TV Series2003

RKO 281 TV Movie1999

The Irish in America: Long Journey Home Poster

The Irish in America: Long Journey Home Mini-Series1998

American Experience Poster

American Experience Mini-Series1988

To Save Our Schools, to Save Our Children Documentary1984

Frontline Poster

Frontline TV Series1983

Thanks

4

Simple as Water Poster

Simple as Water Documentary2021

Angels Are Made Of Light Poster

Angels Are Made Of Light Documentary2018

China in Three Words Poster

China in Three Words Documentary2013

Constantine's Sword Poster

Constantine's Sword Documentary2007

Cinematographer

2

Knife Skills Poster

Knife Skills Documentary2017

Angle of Attack: How Naval Aviation Changed the Face of War Poster

Angle of Attack: How Naval Aviation Changed the Face of War Documentary2011

Other Crew

1

RKO 281 TV Movie1999

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