Biografia
Tom Hurwitz, ASC, is one of America's most acclaimed documentary cinematographers. He has won two Emmy Awards, as well as the Sundance and Jerusalem Film Festival Awards for Best Cinematography. Hurwitz has shot films that have earned four Academy Awards and several additional nominations, including recent nods for Dancemaker and Killing in the Name. Over the past 25 years, his features and television projects have garnered numerous honors such as Emmy, Dupont, Peabody, Directors Guild, and various film festival awards for Best Documentary. His latest accolades include Emmy Awards for Best Documentary Specials for the PBS program Jerome Robbins and the PBS series Franklin, along with Sundance Awards for Queen of Versailles and Love Free or Die, all of which he photographed.
Other notable award-winning films and programs Hurwitz has shot include Tiger-Tiger, Koch, Valentino: The Last Emperor, Harlan County USA, Wild Man Blues, My Generation, Down and Out in America, The Turandot Project, Liberty, Dolley, Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero for PBS; I Have a Dream for ABC; and Killing in the Name and Questioning Faith for HBO. Additionally, films he has directed have received the Cine Golden Eagle Award (for Bombs Will Make the Rainbow Break) and have been showcased at festivals worldwide. He is a founding member of the faculty of the MFA Program in Social Documentary at New York's School of Visual Arts. For 30 years, Hurwitz has served as a verger, or lay liturgist, at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. He resides in Manhattan with his wife, Jungian analyst Margaret Klenck, and has three adult children and five grandchildren.
