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Matthew O'Neill

Television Director / Cinematographer / Film Director / Film Producer / Television Producer | United States of America / the United States of America (United States of America (USA))
Matthew O'Neill is a documentary filmmaker best known for his work on the HBO film Baghdad ER, for which he and co-creator Jon Alpert won three Emmy Awards. He and Alpert were nominated for a 2010 Academy Award for their film China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province about the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. They were nominated again for a 2013 Academy Award for their film Redemption about individuals in New York City, known as canners, who survive by collecting cans and bottles from trash and recycling bins and redeeming them for money. Also co-producer of the Life of Crime: 1984-2020 which was nominated for a 2021 Peabody Award. He has been involved with Downtown Community Television Center since 1997. He primarily produces films about subjects outside the United States including In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution (2011) about the Egyptian Revolution for HBO, Turkey's Tiger... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | TV Movies

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A look at the varied new ways Americans are choosing to both find meaning and celebrate life as it comes to an end. ...

Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America

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2019 | 3.3/5 | 1h 8min
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Produced and directed by 11-time Emmy Award-winner Jon Alpert, this 64-minute verite documentary takes an unforgettable look inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), the U.S. Army's premier medi ...

Baghdad ER

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2006 | 4.0/5 | 1h 4min
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On May 12, 2008, a catastrophic earthquake hit Sichuan Province in rural China, killing nearly 70,000 people, including 10,000 children. In town after town, poorly constructed school buildings crumble ...

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

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2009 | 3.3/5 | 38min
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Leading Axios journalists highlight the week ahead in politics, business and technology – and the big topics shaping the future. Each edition features coverage of a timely big issue, followed by doc ...

Axios

TV-14

2018- | 3.0/5 | 30min per episode
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Awards & Nominations for Matthew O'Neill

2x Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film
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Movies with Matthew O'Neill as Crew(25)

Production/Executive Producer2021 Reopening Night
Camera/Director of Photography2020 Halfway Home: A Father's Story
Directing/Director2020 Halfway Home: A Father's Story
Production/Producer2020 Halfway Home: A Father's Story
Camera/Director of Photography2019 Finding the Way Home
Camera/Director of Photography2019 Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America
Camera/Director of Photography2017 Life on Parole
Directing/Director2017 Life on Parole
Production/Producer2017 Life on Parole
Directing/Director2017 Rock and a Hard Place
Directing/Director2015 The Latin Explosion: A New America
Directing/Director2013 Redemption
Directing/Director2012 In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Camera/Director of Photography2010 No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
Directing/Director2010 No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
Production/Producer2010 No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
Directing/Director2009 China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Camera/Director of Photography2008 Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
Production/Producer2008 Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
Camera/Director of Photography2008 Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Directing/Director2008 Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Production/Producer2008 Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Camera/Director of Photography2007 Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Production/Producer2007 Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Directing/Director2006 Baghdad ER

TV Shows/Series with Matthew O'Neill as Crew(2)

Production/Executive Producer2020 On Pointe
Production/Producer2018 Axios

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Full Name: Matthew O'Neill
Born in: United States of America / the United States of America (United States of America (USA))
Educated at: Yale University
Other names for Matthew O'Neill (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Matthew O'Neill (filmmaker)"
"Matthew O’Neill"
Matthew O'Neill frequently works together with these people:
Jon Alpert (21x, Crew)
Sheila Nevins (7x, Crew)
Matthew O'Neill (6x, Crew)
David Meneses (4x, Crew)
Justin Joseph Hall (4x, Crew)
Perri Peltz (3x, Crew)
John Califra (3x, Crew)
Jacqueline Glover (3x, Crew)
Jeff Arak (3x, Crew)
James Gandolfini (2x, Actor)
Taylor Krauss (2x, Crew)
Larissa Bills (2x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:472608, Added: 10/01/2018, Last updated: 04/14/2024