Name Boyd Estus | Role Director of photography | |
Nominations Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Movies The Last Gladiators, Arguing the World, Benjamin Franklin, Eight Minutes to Midnight, The Flight of the Gossame Similar Muffie Meyer, Alex Gibney, Ben Shedd, Maryse Alberti, Tom Hurwitz | ||
Boyd Estus is a director of photography and producer/director in the motion picture industry whose credits include the Academy Award-winning The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, the Academy Award-nominated Eight Minutes to Midnight, and many Emmy-winning television programs. He has worked on location around the world shooting and directing feature films and documentaries.
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- Career
- American Experience PBS
- Frontline PBS
- NOVA PBS
- PBS Television
- National Educational Television WGBH
- BBC Channel 4 UK et al
- History Channel Discovery Channel HBO
- References
Career
Boyd Estus has extensive experience in the production of film documentaries dealing with history, music, and science. An innovator in the development of technique of "docu-drama" for compelling storytelling, Estus is known for making his subjects vivid and understandable to a broad audience.
An Academy Award winner, Boyd Estus has received numerous awards including the CINE Golden Eagle (Where the Galaxies Are, Arthur Fiedler--Just Call Me Maestro, Flight of the Gossamer Condor), Melbourne International Film Festival Kino Award (So Many Galaxies...So Little Time), the Peabody Award (NOVA, Tender Places), the Cindy, Emmy, Telly, Hugo Award, and many others.
In addition to making films for the BBC and other overseas broadcasters, Estus has made many films for American broadcast television including the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and PBS television where he was a founding member of the film unit at WGBH Boston.