Thomas McKay Martin Jr. (born September 7, 1979), known professionally as T. J. Martin, is an American filmmaker. Martin's film
Undefeated (2011), for which he was co-director, co-editor, and co-cinematographer, won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, making Martin the first film director of African-American descent to win an Academy Award for a feature-length film. Martin's film
LA 92 (2017), for which he was co-director and co-editor, won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. He also co-directed the documentary film
TINA (2021) about the life of singer
TINA Turner, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.
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