Biografia
Donald Martin is a citizen of the U.S. and Canada. Donald and his productions have won multiple awards and honors, including a nomination for the 2022 Humanitas Prize for his screenplay "Queen Bees". He was the recipient of the Margaret Collier Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Canadian Screen Awards, in honor of his body of work in television. In 2009, he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for writing CBC's acclaimed "Celine" (the life story of Celine Dion). In 2002, he received Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee Medal for his body of work and his philanthropy. In 2001, he received the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's inaugural Humanitarian Award. In 1996, he was nominated for a Writer's Guild of Canada Award and a Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay for his feature film "Never Too Late", which starred Olympia Dukakis and Cloris Leachman.
In features, his Netflix movie "Brazen", starring Alyssa Milano, premiered in January 2022 and became the #1 Netflix movie for weeks, worldwide. His comedy "Queen Bees", starring Ellen Burstyn and James Caan, was released in theaters in June 2021. When it premiered on Netflix in 2023, "Queen Bees" placed among the Top Ten movies for weeks. His adaptation of Eckhart Tolle's "Milton's Secret", starring Donald Sutherland and Michelle Rodriguez, had its premiere at the 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival. Donald has been commissioned to write features for Paramount, Universal, CBS Films, The Weinstein Company, Miramax, Showtime, Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, for Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Entertainment and for Escape Artists (Sony).
In television, Donald has over 50 produced movies and mini-series, work that has won accolades worldwide, including Prince Albert's Red Cross Award at the Monte Carlo Film & Television Festival, honoring Donald's first TV movie "No Blame", the first movie ever to address the subject of women and AIDS. "No Blame" was invited to screen at the Fifth International AIDS Conference.
Donald's TV series credits include shows for Showtime, ABC, NBC, CBC, CTV, and for syndication.
Donald is a member of the Writers Guild of America West, the Writers Guild of Canada, the Television Academy, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, and the British Academy of Film & Television Arts.
Donald has conducted workshops and given lectures at such prestigious schools as The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, Pepperdine University, the University of Southern California, The Los Angeles Film School, NYU's Tisch School for the Arts Asia in Singapore, The National Academy of Cinema in Bologna, Italy, The Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, and at The National Screen Institute of Canada. He leads the Feature Film Writing Conservatory at UCLA Extension.
