Terry Zwigoff

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Nationality: American
Birthdate: 00/00/1948

biography

San Francisco-based documentarian Terry Zwigoff is best known for his 1994 film "Crumb", a frankly intimate portrait of the legendary underground artist Robert Crumb and his extended family. The film was not only hailed by critics and dissected by pundits and psychologists for exposing an intensely dysfunctional family unit, it also won virtually every major award for documentaries in 1995, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival as well as citations from the New York and Los Angles Film Critics and the Directors Guild of America. Its failure to earn an Oscar nomination Continued

Credits

Director
2006
Director
2003
Director
2001
screenplay
2001
Producer
1995
Director
1995
Producer
Director

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Raised in Chicago
1976 
Zwigoff joined Robert Crumb's band The Cheap Suit Serenaders (date approximate)
 
During the 1970s, published several of Robert Crumb's comics
1985 
First won attention with documentary "Louie Bluie"
1994 
Directed documentary, "Crumb"
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