Name Ezra Edelman Role Television producer | Parents Marian Wright Edelman | |
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Movies Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals Awards Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Documentary Similar People | ||
O j made in america with director ezra edelman
Ezra Benjamin Edelman (born August 6, 1974) is an American documentary producer and director. He won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming for directing O.J.: Made in America (2016).
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- Early life and education
- Directing and producing
- Personal life
- References
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Early life and education
Edelman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the son of children's rights activist Marian Wright Edelman and Georgetown University law professor Peter B. Edelman. He has two brothers, Joshua, an educational administrator, and Jonah, co-founder and CEO of Stand for Children. His father is Jewish and his mother is African American. His paternal great-grandfather was a Polish rabbi who was killed during the Holocaust and his maternal grandfather was a Baptist minister; he was raised in both faiths.
Edelman graduated from Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C. in July 1992, before going on to earn his bachelor's degree from Yale University.
Directing and producing
Edelman is best known for producing and directing the Academy Award-winning 2016 documentary film O.J.: Made in America for ESPN's 30 for 30. Previously he directed three HBO Sports documentaries: Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals, The Curious Case of Curt Flood (2011) and the Emmy Award-winning Brooklyn Dodgers: Ghosts of Flatbush. He did a special on the former Big East Conference called Requiem for the Big East.
Personal life
Edelman lives in Brooklyn, New York.