Thomas Lennon

 

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Thomas F. Lennon is a documentary filmmaker. Thomas F. Lennon has alternated between historical and contemporary subject matter. His work, broadcast on PBS and HBO, has been nominated three times for an Academy Award, winning once, and has received major television awards including two George Foster Peabody Awards, two national Emmys and two DuPont-Columbia Journalism awards. He co-directed the HBO film Unchained Memories, along with Ed Bell, based on readings from the WPA slave narratives. For years, his work focused on ethnicity and race; recently he has focused on health, mounting, with filmmaker Ruby Yang, a vast multi-year AIDS prevention campaign seen over 900 million times on Chinese television. He and Ruby Yang made a trilogy of short documentary films about modern China, including The Blood of Yingzhou District, which won an Oscar in 2007, and The Warriors of Qiugang, nominated in 2011

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Thomas Lennon

Awards
Award Ceremony Year Awarded for
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject (The Blood of Yingzhou District) 79th Academy Awards 2006 The Blood of Yingzhou District
WGA Award for Best Documentary - Current Events - Television (The Choice '92) Writers Guild of America Awards 1993 1994 The Choice '92
WGA Award for Best Documentary - Current Events - Television (Seven Days in Bensonhurst) Writers Guild of America Awards 1990 1991 Seven Days in Bensonhurst
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing (Bell & Howell Close-Up!) 6th News & Documentary Emmy Awards 1985 Bell & Howell Close-Up!
Nominated for awards
Award Ceremony Year Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject (The Warriors of Qiugang) 83rd Academy Awards 2010 The Warriors of Qiugang
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject (The Blood of Yingzhou District) 79th Academy Awards 2006 The Blood of Yingzhou District
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form (Becoming American: The Chinese Experience) 25th News & Documentary Emmy Awards 2004 Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
WGA Award for Best Documentary - Other Than Current Events - Television (Between Two Worlds) Writers Guild of America Awards 2003 2004 Between Two Worlds
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing (Becoming American: The Chinese Experience) 25th News & Documentary Emmy Awards 2004 Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Research (Becoming American: The Chinese Experience) 25th News & Documentary Emmy Awards 2004 Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special (Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives) 55th Primetime Emmy Awards 2003 Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special (American Experience) 48th Primetime Emmy Awards 1996 American Experience
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (The Battle Over Citizen Kane) 68th Academy Awards 1995 The Battle Over Citizen Kane
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing (Bell & Howell Close-Up!) 6th News & Documentary Emmy Awards 1985 Bell & Howell Close-Up!

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Thomas F. Lennon is a documentary filmmaker.

Thomas F. Lennon has alternated between historical and contemporary subject matter. His work, broadcast on PBS and HBO, has been nominated three times for an Academy Award, winning once, and has received major television awards including two George Foster Peabody Awards, two national Emmys and two DuPont-Columbia Journalism awards. He co-directed the HBO film Unchained Memories, along with Ed Bell, based on readings from the WPA slave narratives. For years, his work focused on ethnicity and race; recently he has focused on health, mounting, with filmmaker Ruby Yang, a vast multi-year AIDS prevention campaign seen over 900 million times on Chinese television. He and Ruby Yang made a trilogy of short documentary films about modern China, including The Blood of Yingzhou District, which won an Oscar in 2007, and The Warriors of Qiugang, nominated in 2011. This most recent film profiles an Anhui Province farmer's multi-year campaign to halt the poisoning of his village water by a nearby factory.

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