Chuck Workman

American documentary filmmaker

Chuck Workman

Occupation	Filmmaker
Known for	Precious Images, The Source

Chuck Workman is a documentary filmmaker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His 1986 film Precious Images won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film;^[1] his work has also been nominated for Emmy Awards, Sundance Film Festival awards, and the Taos Talking Film Festival awards.

Workman frequently creates the montages seen on the televised Academy Awards shows, including the in memoriam segment.^[2] He is sometimes credited as Carl Workman. He is the father of filmmaker Jeremy Workman.

Selected filmography

1984: The Director and the Image
1984: The Director and the Actor
1986: Precious Images (2009 National Film Registry inductee)
1986: Stoogemania
1987: The Best Show in Town
1987: Words
1989: 50 Years of Bugs Bunny in 3½ Minutes
1994: 100 Years at the Movies
1999: The Source^[3]
2003: A House on a Hill
2010: Visionaries^[4]
2013: What Is Cinema?
2014: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles^[5]

References

^ "Precious Images" winning the Oscar® for Live Action Short
^ Cohen, Sandy (2010-03-03). "Oscar's 'In Memoriam' segment is touching to watch, painful to make". USA Today. Associated Press. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
^ "The Source". The A.V. Club. 29 March 2002.
^ Visionaries|2010 Tribeca Festival|Tribeca
^ Harvey, Dennis (October 20, 2014). "Film Review: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved September 7, 2015.

External links

Chuck Workman at IMDb
Chuck Workman's channel on Vimeo
Chuck Workman at The Film-Makers' Cooperative
King of Condensed Films: Meet Chuck Workman, The Oscars' Montage Master-NPR article