Jon Alpert

 

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Jon Alpert (born c. 1948) is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. A native of Port Chester, New York, Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University, and has a black belt in karate. Alpert has traveled widely as an investigative journalist, and has made films for NBC, PBS, and HBO. Over the course of his career, he has won 15 Emmy Awards and three DuPont-Columbia Awards. He has been nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province. He has reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Cuba, China, and Afghanistan. In 1972, Alpert and his wife, Keiko Tsuno, founded the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the country's first community media centers

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Jon Alpert

Born 1948 in Port Chester.

Awards
Award Ceremony Year Awarded for
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Music & Sound (HBO Documentary Film Series) 34th News & Documentary Emmy Awards 2013 HBO Documentary Film Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming - Single-Camera Productions (Baghdad ER) 58th Primetime Emmy Awards 2006 Baghdad ER
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Nonfiction Programming (Baghdad ER) 58th Primetime Emmy Awards 2006 Baghdad ER
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking (Baghdad ER) 58th Primetime Emmy Awards 2006 Baghdad ER
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Camerawork (Today) 9th News & Documentary Emmy Awards 1988 امروز
Nominated for awards
Award Ceremony Year Nominated for
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Music & Sound (HBO Documentary Film Series) 34th News & Documentary Emmy Awards 2013 HBO Documentary Film Series
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject (Redemption) 85th Academy Awards 2012 杀戒
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject (China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province) 82nd Academy Awards 2009 China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking (Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery) 61st Primetime Emmy Awards 2009 Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special (Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq) 60th Primetime Emmy Awards 2008 Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary (America Undercover) 27th News & Documentary Emmy Awards 2006 America Undercover
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking (Baghdad ER) 58th Primetime Emmy Awards 2006 Baghdad ER
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming - Single-Camera Productions (Baghdad ER) 58th Primetime Emmy Awards 2006 Baghdad ER
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Nonfiction Programming (Baghdad ER) 58th Primetime Emmy Awards 2006 Baghdad ER
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Programming - Sound Mixing (Baghdad ER) 58th Primetime Emmy Awards 2006 Baghdad ER
Relationships
Name From To Relationship type
Keiko Tsuno(Gifta) Gifta

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Jon Alpert (born c. 1948) is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. A native of Port Chester, New York, Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University, and has a black belt in karate.

Alpert has traveled widely as an investigative journalist, and has made films for NBC, PBS, and HBO. Over the course of his career, he has won 15 Emmy Awards and three DuPont-Columbia Awards. He has been nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province. He has reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Cuba, China, and Afghanistan.

In 1972, Alpert and his wife, Keiko Tsuno, founded the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the country's first community media centers. He has interviewed Fidel Castro several times, and was one of the few Western journalists to have conducted a videotaped interview with Saddam Hussein since the Persian Gulf War.

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