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Mitchell Block was born on 5 June, 1950 in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., is an American filmmaker (1950–2024). Discover Mitchell Block's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Occupation Filmmaker
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 5 June 1950
Birthday 5 June
Birthplace Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Date of death 30 May, 2024
Died Place Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
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1950

Mitchell W. Block (June 5, 1950 – May 30, 2024) was an American filmmaker, primarily a producer of documentary films.

Block was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 5, 1950.

1968

He attended the Hun School of Princeton, graduating in 1968.

He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in fine arts from the Tisch School of the Arts in New York University, where he majored in television and film production.

1973

In 1973, Block received the first Leo Jaffe Scholarship because of his student work as a producer.

He earned an MBA from the Columbia Business School.

He was a producing fellow at the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Studies, Beverly Hills and did work towards a doctorate at UCLA in film and television history, criticism, theory and business.

Block began to work in television and film.

He became particularly interested in documentaries.

1974

He established his own company, Direct Cinema, in 1974, of which he was president.

It produces and distributes films.

1978

Since 1978, Block had been an adjunct professor at the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California.

He taught in The Peter Stark Producing Program.

His moving image collection, the Direct Cinema/Mitchell Block Collection, is held at the Academy Film Archive.

Block died at his home in Eugene, Oregon on May 30, 2024, at the age of 73.

1980

From 1980, Block sat on the 40-person Documentary Screening Committee of the Academy Awards.

They nominate the short list of finalists for awards.

In 2022, Block, among Anna Rezan, Kim Magnusson and Zafeiris Haitidis produced the feature documentary My People, which premiered to rave reviews in Los Angeles.

1990

In 1990, a group of 45 filmmakers filed a protest to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over a potential conflict of interest involving Block.

They noted that Block was a member of the Documentary Steering Committee, which selects films as nominees, but he had a conflict of interest because his company Direct Cinema owned the distribution rights to three of the five films (including eventual winner Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt) selected that year as nominees for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

They noted that Michael Moore's Roger & Me (distributed by Warner Brothers) was omitted from the nominees, although it had been highly praised by numerous critics and was ranked by many critics as one of the top ten films of the year.

2000

Block was the executive producer of the 2000 short documentary film Big Mama, which won Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 73rd Academy Awards.

He was executive producer for the film Big Mama (2000), which won an Academy Award for a documentary short.

Among the films and documentary series that Block conceived, created and produced are Carrier and Another Day in Paradise, both of which were broadcast on the Public Broadcasting Service and the National Geographic Channel internationally.

2008

In 2008, Block's short film No Lies (1973) was selected for the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress.

2009

Carrier received an Emmy Award in 2009 for Best Cinematography in a prime time series.

2010

He produced the 2010 film Poster Girl, which was nominated in the same category at the 83rd Academy Awards.

His 2010 film Poster Girl was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).

2015

He also produced The Testimony (2015) and executive produced Women of the Gulag (2018), which were shortlisted in the Best Documentary (Short Subject) category at the 88th Academy Awards and the 91st Academy Awards, respectively.

In 2022, Block, among Anna Rezan, Kim Magnusson, and Zafeiris Haitidis, produced the feature documentary My People, which premiered to rave reviews in Los Angeles.

Block produced the documentary The Testimony (2015), which chronicled the 2014 Minova Trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It was short listed for a 2015 Academy Award.

2016

In 2016, film critics for the website IndieWire selected No Lies as one of the ten best short films ever made.

In 2022, Block, among Anna Rezan, Kim Magnusson and Zafeiris Haitidis produced the feature documentary My People that premiered to rave reviews in Los Angeles.

A segment of the film titled My People: Jews of Greece was eligible for consideration in the documentary feature category Oscars in 2021, but was not a finalist.