Stanley Nelson

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1955-07-07 (69 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Stanley Nelson Jr.

Stanley Nelson

Biography

Stanley Earl Nelson Jr. (born June 7, 1951) is an American documentary filmmaker and a MacArthur Fellow known as a director, writer and producer of documentaries examining African-American history and experiences. He is a recipient of the 2013 National Humanities Medal from President Obama. He has won three Primetime Emmy Awards. Among his notable films are Freedom Riders (2010), Wounded Knee (2009), Jonestown: The Life & Death of People's Temple (2006), Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice (2005), A Place of Our Own (2004), The Murder of Emmett Till (2003), and The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords (1998).

Known For

Producer

2024
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death

as Executive Producer

2023
Bulls and Saints

as Executive Producer

2023
2023
Sydney G. James: How We See Us

as Executive Producer

2023
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology

as Executive Producer

2022
Hazing

as Executive Producer

2022
After Jackie

as Producer

2022
Becoming Frederick Douglass

as Executive Producer

2021
Attica

as Producer

2017
Gavin Grimm vs.

as Executive Producer

2017
American Carnage

as Executive Producer

2017
Picket Line

as Executive Producer

2012
Jesse Owens

as Producer

2010
Freedom Riders

as Producer

2004
A Place of Our Own

as Producer

1988

Actor

2004
A Place of Our Own

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1996