Louie Psihoyos

Louie Psihoyos N. ( born April 15, 1957 in Dubuque, Iowa) is an American photographer and director of documentary films. For his film The Bay in 2010, he won an Oscar.

Life

Psihoyos was born in 1957 as the son of Greek immigrants in Dubuque in the U.S. state of Iowa. Already as a teenager he became interested in photography and took pictures for the local newspaper Telegraph Herald. As a 17 -year-old, he took a small role as Sylvester Stallone's wedding photographer in the movie FIST - A man goes his way. Later he studied photojournalism at the University of Missouri. During his studies he worked, inter alia, for the Los Angeles Times.

From 1980 to 1997 he worked for National Geographic. For his work he has won numerous awards, including first places in the World Press Contest, the. Hearst Awards and the National Press Photographers Association Several of his works were exhibited in museums, including museums in New York and Washington, as well as the Musée de l' Elysée in Lausanne. Also for numerous other newspapers he photographed, these included, for example, GEO, TIME, New York Times Magazine and many others. In 1994 he published the book Hunting Dinosaurs in which he reported on his trips to dinosaur localities. Because he re-discovered the bones of the paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in a museum archive, he learned brief celebrity including a cover story in the Wall Street Journal. According to him even discovered by Charlie Magovern dinosaur Baby Louie was named in 1996, the photographed Psihoyos for the National Geographic.

2005 Psihoyos was co-founder of the marine protection organization Oceanic Preservation Society.

For the documentary The Cove of animal rights activists Richard O'Barry, who documented the annual mass killing of about 2,000 dolphins in a Japanese bay and directed the Psyhoyos Director, he won with producer Fisher Stevens at the Academy Awards 2010 Oscar for Best Documentary. More prices, the film won the largest film festival for documentaries in Amsterdam, at the Directors Guild of America Award, the Sundance Film Festival and at various film festivals in Galway, Toronto, Nantucket, Newport Beach, Seattle, Silver Spring and at the Sydney Film Festival and the Stockholm International Film Festival.

Currently (as of October 2012) Psihoyos working on the documentary The Singing Planet.

Filmography

  • 2009: The Bay (English: The Cove )
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