Morgan Neville
Morgan Neville is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. For over twenty years he has been making films about music and cultural subjects including Troubadours, Search and Destroy and three Grammy-nominated films: Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, Muddy Waters Can’t Be Satisfied, and Johnny Cash’s America. His non-music films include The Cool School, Steinbeck and Shotgun Freeway: Drives Thru Lost L.A.. Neville has also produced many documentaries, including Pearl Jam Twenty, Crossfire Hurricane and Beauty is Embarrassing. In 2014, 20 Feet From Stardom, won numerous awards including the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary. Most recently, Best of Enemies won an Emmy Award for Best Historical Documentary at the 2017 News and Documentary Emmy Awards. The film was also shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Other recent projects include Keith Richards: Under the Influence (Director), Chelsea Does (Executive Producer), a series of four documentaries with Chelsea Handler for Netflix, and Abstract: The Art of Design, also for Netflix.
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DirectingBirthday
October 10, 1967Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
39Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USACast credits
Crew credits
Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan: 'Cowboy' Jack Clement's Home Movies
Director, ProducerBeauty Is Embarrassing
ProducerJames Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Writer, ProducerTroubadours
Director20 Feet from Stardom
Director, ProducerCrossfire Hurricane
ProducerJohnny Cash's America
Director, Executive ProducerBest of Enemies
Director, Writer, ProducerThe Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
Director, ProducerKeith Richards: Under the Influence
Director, ProducerRespect Yourself: The Stax Records Story
DirectorWon't You Be My Neighbor?
Director, ProducerThe Cool School
DirectorAmerican Revolutions: The Highwaymen
Director, Executive ProducerBurn
Executive ProducerPearl Jam Twenty
ProducerThe Union
Co-ProducerSearch and Destroy: Iggy & The Stooges' Raw Power
Director, Executive ProducerCharlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
ProducerThey'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Director, ProducerHank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
Director, Writer