Robert Greenwald
Mark Robert Greenwald ( born August 28, 1945 in New York City ) is an American film director and film producer. He made his name as a producer of documentary films that deal critically with the administration of George W. Bush, the Iraq war and the media.
Life
Greenwald grew up in New York, the son of a psychologist. After attending the High School of Performing Arts, he became active in the New York theater scene and led in 1975 and 1976 in two plays directed.
He moved then to Los Angeles, where he began a successful career as a television director and producer. In 1977 he was awarded the producer of 21 Hours of Munich, a television film about the kidnapping of Munich with an Emmy. His next nomination for an Emmy Award he received in 1984 for a film adaptation of the book The Burning Bed, which is based on a true case of domestic violence. He still produced until the 1990s a number of television films, which are called by the New York Times later called " Commercially respectable B -list movies ."
In 1980, he ventured to the musical film Xanadu to the movies. The film, in which Greenwald Produced and directed took over, but flopped at the box office and received poor reviews. Only in 1997 he turned to the romantic drama Breaking Up again a movie, who was also a financial failure.
His next produced for the cinema film, the biopic Steal This Movie via the activists Abbie Hoffman, however, received positive reviews and was nominated by the Political Film Society in two categories for a PFS Award.
The early 2000s, he began to produce documentaries that deal critically with the administration of George W. Bush, and the media. He had particular success with Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election, a documentary on the 2000 presidential election and Outfoxed, a film about the media landscape of the United States.
In 2002 founded Greenwald, along with Victor and Danny Goldberg, released the publisher RDV Books, books on political issues.
In the 2008 presidential campaign Greenwald made with viral video sensation who criticize the behavior of the right-wing media.