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Nov 28, 2023 · Scottish director Kevin Macdonald may not have a famous name in Hollywood, but he has garnered impressive credits over the years. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Macdonald comes from a line of ...
Jan 24, 2022 · By Scott Roxborough. January 24, 2022 1:11am. Kevin Macdonald Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images. Acclaimed Scottish filmmaker Kevin Macdonald ( The Mauritanian, Touching the Void) will direct a new ...
Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His maternal grandparents were the Hungarian-born British Jewish filmmaker Emeric Pressburger and English screenwriter and actress Wendy Orme. He was brought up in Gartocharn, Dunbartonshire and attended the local primary school for the first five years of his education, He was educated at Glenalmond ...
European Director. The Last King of Scotland. 2007 Nominee EFA People's Choice Award. Best European Film. The Last King of Scotland. 2000 Nominee European Film Award. European Documentary.
English. Jamaican Patois. French. Box office. $1,412,124 [3] Marley is a 2012 documentary - biographical film directed by Kevin Macdonald documenting the life of Bob Marley. [4] The film initially began development in 2008, with a planned release date for Marley's 65th birthday on 6 February 2010.
Mar 16, 2021 · Benedict Cumberbatch and Kevin Macdonald on set of “The Mauritanian.” Courtesy STX. Macdonald was intent on not objectifying the torture Slahi endures, but rather make it very specific to this person we learn to care about over the course of the movie. “What I want to do is make it subjective,” Macdonald says.
Nov 21, 2008 · Kevin Macdonald is the grandson of the filmmaker Emeric Pressburger. Macdonald’s directorial credits include 2000's Academy Award–winning One Day in September, about the killing of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and 2003's Touching the Void, which tells the story of two climbers’ disastrous attempt to scale the Siula Grande, in the Andes.
