Richard Rowley (film director) explained

Richard Rowley (also known as Rick Rowley) is a documentary filmmaker. His films and TV shows have received three Emmy awards, an Oscar nomination, and other awards and nominations, as well as recognition at film festivals around the world.

Rowley's Oscar-nominated feature Dirty Wars was the culmination of ten years as a war reporter in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the lesser-known battlegrounds of America's war on terror. Since then, Rowley has turned his lens on racial injustice in the United States. His 2019 feature for Showtime, 16 Shots, won Television Academy honors and a Peabody nomination for its unflinching look at the police murder of Laquan McDonald and the cover-up that followed. His Emmy-winning series Documenting Hate unmasked an underground Nazi fight club and a terrorist cell. The series received a DuPont Award and prompted an FBI investigation that led to dozens of arrests. His latest film, Kingdom Of Silence, is the story of the life and death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.^[1]

Awards

• 2014 Academy Award Nomination – Best Documentary^[2]
• 2013 Sundance Film Festival – Documentary Cinematography Award
• 2022 Emmy Nominee – Outstanding Current Events Documentary
• 2021 Emmy Winner – Outstanding Politics Documentary
• 2020 Emmy Winner – Outstanding Investigative Documentary
• 2019 Emmy Winner – Outstanding Investigative Documentary
• 2020 Television Academy Honors Winner – Documentary
• 2020 DuPont Columbia Award^[3]
• 2022 DuPont Columbia Award^[4]
• 2022 George Polk Award^[5]
• 2022 Peabody Award^[6]
• 2022 Edward R Murrow Award^[7]
• 2023 Scripps Howard Award

Selected filmography

Rick Rowley directed or co-directed these documentary films:

• Zapatista (1999) – about the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico^[8]
• This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000) – about the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle^[9]
• Black and Gold (2001) – about the Latin Kings in New York City^[10]
• The Fourth World War (2003) – about resistance movements around the world^{[11] [12]}
• Dirty Wars (2013) – about the war on terror and the Joint Special Operations Command^{[13] [14] [15] [16]}
• The Blue Wall (2018) – about the murder of Laquan McDonald and subsequent events^{[17] [18] [19]}
• 16 Shots (2019) – an updated and expanded version of The Blue Wall^{[20] [21] [22]}
• Kingdom of Silence (2020) – about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi^{[23] [24] [25]}
• American Insurrection (2021) – about the 2021 United States Capitol attack^{[26] [27]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fleischer. Victoria. February 27, 2014. Oscar-Nominated Dirty Wars Aims to Make a Covert War More 'Real'. May 11, 2018. PBS NewsHour.
2. Web site: Rick Rowley . 2023-06-09 . IMDb . en-US.
3. Web site: Winners of the 2020 duPont-Columbia Awards Columbia Journalism School . 2023-06-09 . journalism.columbia.edu.
4. Web site: Three FRONTLINE Reports Honored as 2022 duPont-Columbia Award Finalists . 2023-06-09 . FRONTLINE . en-US.
5. Web site: FRONTLINE Wins George Polk Award for “American Insurrection” . 2023-06-09 . FRONTLINE . en-US.
6. Web site: FRONTLINE: Michael Flynn’s Holy War . 2023-06-09 . The Peabody Awards . en-US.
7. Web site: FRONTLINE (PBS) Wins 3 Edward R. Murrow Awards . 2023-06-09 . FRONTLINE . en-US.
8. Web site: Marjorie . Baumgarten . November 1, 2000 . Zapatista . The Austin Chronicle . May 11, 2018.
9. Web site: Dennis . Harvey . December 14, 2000 . This Is What Democracy Looks Like . Variety . May 11, 2018.
10. Web site: Mark . Deming . Black & Gold (1999) . AllMovie . May 11, 2018.
11. Web site: Amy . Goodman . Juan . Gonzalez . August 26, 2004 . The Fourth World War: An Unembedded View of Global Resistance . Democracy Now . May 11, 2018.
12. Web site: Ramona . DeNies . February 2004 . Film Review: The Fourth World War: Nothing Subtle About It . The Portland Alliance . October 4, 2020.
13. Web site: R. Kurt . Osenlund . June 7, 2013 . Richard Rowley on Dirty Wars . Filmmaker Magazine . May 11, 2018.
14. Web site: Ella . Taylor . June 6, 2013 . Covert Conflicts, Decried In 'Dirty Wars' . NPR . October 4, 2020.
15. Web site: Stephen . Holden . June 6, 2013 . From the Front Lines, If You Can See Them . New York Times . October 4, 2020.
16. Web site: Steven . Boone . June 13, 2013 . Dirty Wars . RogerEbert.com . October 4, 2020.
17. Web site: Eric . Zorn . May 4, 2018 . Coming Soon: A Laquan McDonald Documentary That Makes the Story Even Worse . Chicago Tribune . May 11, 2018.
18. Web site: Norman . Wilner . April 25, 2018 . Hot Docs review: The Blue Wall . Now Magazine . September 13, 2018.
19. Web site: C.J. . Prince . May 5, 2018 . Hot Docs 2018: The Blue Wall . The Cinessential . September 13, 2018.
20. Web site: Tracy . Swartz . June 11, 2019 . 5 Things to Know About '16 Shots,' the New Documentary About Laquan McDonald's Killing . Chicago Tribune . June 13, 2019.
21. Web site: Ken . Jaworowski . June 6, 2019 . '16 Shots' Review: Chicago's Rage After a Killing by the Police . The New York Times . June 13, 2019.
22. Web site: Frank . Scheck . June 7, 2019 . '16 Shots': Film Review . The Hollywood Reporter . June 13, 2019.
23. Web site: Ben . Kenigsberg . October 1, 2020 . 'Kingdom of Silence' Review: A Spotlight on Jamal Khashoggi . New York Times . October 2, 2020.
24. Web site: Melanie . McFarland . October 2, 2020 . "Kingdom of Silence": A Wrenching Look at How Jamal Khashoggi's Life Is a Story as Big as His Death . Salon.com . October 3, 2020.
25. Web site: Carlos . Aguilar . October 2, 2020 . Kingdom of Silence . RogerEbert.com . October 3, 2020.
26. Web site: Jacob . Oller . April 13, 2021 . American Insurrection Attempts to Shine a Light on Hate Groups Operating In Broad Daylight . Paste Magazine . July 31, 2022.
27. Web site: Frontline: American Insurrection . PBS . July 31, 2022.