Thomas Lennon (filmmaker) explained

Thomas Furneaux Lennon (born November 3, 1951) is a documentary filmmaker.[1] He was born in Washington, D.C., graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1968 [2] and Yale University in 1973.

Thomas F. Lennon's films, broadcast on PBS and HBO, have won an Academy Award and have been nominated for the Oscar four times. He has also received two George Foster Peabody Awards, two national Emmys and two DuPont-Columbia Journalism awards. With filmmaker Ruby Yang, he mounted a vast multi-year AIDS prevention campaign seen over a billion times on Chinese television. Together they 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, which profiles an Anhui Province farmer's multi-year campaign to halt the poisoning of his village water by a nearby factory. Three weeks after the Oscar nomination, the local government of Bengbu, in Anhui, announced a 200 million yuan (US$30 million) clean-up of the toxic site shown in the film. He produced two historical series on PBS: The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (1998) and Becoming American: The Chinese Experience with Bill Moyers (2003). The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996) co-written with the late Richard Ben Cramer, marked his first Oscar nomination. It premiered at Sundance and was adapted into a fiction film, RKO 281, starring John Malkovich and Melanie Griffith.

In 2017, he completed Knife Skills about the launch of Edwins, an haute cuisine French restaurant in Cleveland, staffed by men and women recently released from prison; in January 2018, this was nominated for an Oscar. "Sacred" (2016) explores the use of prayer and ritual in daily life. More than 40 filmmakers around the world contributed scenes to the film, which premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival, showed at 25 festivals worldwide and aired on PBS in December 2018.

Since 2018, Thomas Lennon has served as the Director of the Documentary Film Lab at Rutgers University.[3] In 2021, Variety profiled him as one of the "top 50 film instructors from around the world."[4]

Lennon lives and works in New York City. He is married to the medical researcher Joan Reibman, best known for her work on the health of 9/11 survivors.[5] He is at times confused with the writer-comedian Thomas Lennon and has twice had to send back large royalty checks.

Filmography

Readings from the Slave Narratives, HBO (2003) – producer, director (Sundance Film Festival (premiere), Emmy nominations (two);[13] [14] Christopher Award)

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lennon, Thomas F. 1951- (Thomas Lennon, Thomas Furneaux Lennon, Tom Lennon) . Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television . The Gale Group, Inc. . 2004 . encyclopedia.com .
  2. Book: The Pean . . 1968.
  3. https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/bio/Thomas-Lennon/
  4. Web site: Ferme . Antonio . 2021-04-15 . 2021’s Top 50 Film Schools Around the World . 2024-05-31 . Variety . en-US.
  5. Web site: Joan Reibman . 2024-05-31 . med.nyu.edu . en.
  6. We Are Suns (2022) - IMDb . 2024-05-31 . www.imdb.com.
  7. Web site: We Are Suns . 2024-05-31 . Sarasota Film Festival . en-US.
  8. Web site: We are Suns Montclair Film . 2024-05-31 . montclairfilm.org . en-US.
  9. Web site: Academy. Awards. Oscar Nominations 2018: Full List of Nominated Movies. oscar.go.com.
  10. Web site: SACRED - a global documentary PBS. 2021-01-20. SACRED - a global documentary.
  11. Web site: 2011 Academy Awards Oscars.org Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . 2024-05-31 . www.oscars.org . en.
  12. Web site: Academy Awards Acceptance Speeches - Search Results Margaret Herrick Library Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. 2021-01-19. aaspeechesdb.oscars.org.
  13. Web site: Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special Nominees / Winners 2003. 2021-01-19. Television Academy. en.
  14. Web site: Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming Nominees / Winners 2003. 2021-01-19. Television Academy. en.
  15. Web site: RKO 281. 2021-01-20. www.tcm.com. en.
  16. Web site: Outstanding Informational Special Nominees / Winners 1996. 2021-01-19. Television Academy. en.
  17. Web site: The American Experience: The Battle Over Citizen Kane. 2021-01-19. www.peabodyawards.com. en.
  18. Web site: Battle of the Bulge American Experience PBS. 2021-01-20. www.pbs.org. en.
  19. Web site: The American Experience: The Battle of the Bulge. 2021-01-19. www.peabodyawards.com. en.

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