Directing · geboren 1952-04-22 · USA

Chris Hegedus

Chris Hegedus (born April 23, 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker. She and her husband, filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, founded the company Pennebaker Hegedus Films. Hegedus was nominated for an Academy Award for The War Room, a behind-the-scenes film about President Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. The film also won the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures prize for Best Documentary. In 2001, she was awarded the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for Startup.com. The film is a boom-bust story of two young internet entrepreneurs, co-produced with Jehane Noujaim. Hegedus was also the recipient of CINE's Golden Eagle Award, an Emmy Award, and lifetime achievement awards from several organizations including the International Documentary Association. Her films include the 2010 feature release, Kings of Pastry, about the legendary French pastry competition, the Meilleur Ouvrier de France. In 2011, Hegedus received the Athena Film Festival Award for Exemplary Directing.

Bekannt aus

• Born in Flames (1983) – Camera Operator
• The War Room (1993) – Director
• Mythos und Mogul: John DeLorean (2021) – Producer
• Depeche Mode: 101 (1989) – Director
• Startup.com - Vom Aufstieg und Ende eines amerikanischen Traums (2001) – Director
• Shake! Otis at Monterey (1987) – Editor
• Jimi Plays Monterey (1987) – Director
• Kings of Pastry (2009) – Director
• Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock (1999) – Director
• Unlocking the Cage (2016) – Director
• Half the Picture (2018) – Self
• Town Bloody Hall (1979) – Director
• Down from the Mountain (2001) – Director
• Storyville (1997)
• Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) – Editor
• Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl (2006) – Director
• Das Konzert, das die Beatles zerstörte - Toronto 1969 (2023) – Executive Producer
• Only the Strong Survive (2002) – Director
• Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music (1992) – Editor
• Moon Over Broadway (1997) – Director
• Sweet Toronto (1971) – Editor
• Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby' (1983) – Director
• The Return of the War Room (2008) – Director
• The Quiet Epidemic (2022) – Producer
• Woodstock Diary (1994) – Director
• Addiction (2007) – Director
• Jerry Lee Lewis: The Story of Rock and Roll (1991) – Director
• Westernhagen: Keine Zeit (1996) – Director
• Meat the Future (2020) – Executive Producer
• DeLorean (1981) – Producer
• Little Richard: Keep on Rockin' (1973) – Editor
• Depeche Mode: Live at the Pasadena Rose Bowl (1989) – Camera Operator
• The Energy War (1979) – Director
• Alice Cooper (1970) – Director
• Das Pfefferminz-Experiment (2019) – Director
• The National - 'High Violet' Live From Brooklyn Academy of Music (2010) – Director
• Bessie: A Portrait of Bessie Schonberg (1998) – Director