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DAVID GRUBIN is a producer, director, writer, and cinematographer who has won every major award in his field, including three George Foster Peabody awards,
two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards, and nine Emmys.
As a writer, he has won an Emmy and received four awards from the Writers Guild.
As a director, he has received three Emmy nominations.
As a cinematographer, he has received one Emmy and five Emmy nominations.
As the president of DAVID GRUBIN PRODUCTIONS, INC, Mr. Grubin has produced over 100 films on subjects ranging from history to art, from poetry to science.
Grubin's biographies of American Presidents for American Experience on PBS have been widely acclaimed:
FDR, his 4-1/2 hour biography of Franklin Roosevelt, has
won many prizes, including awards from the International Documentary Association,
the American Historical Association, and the National Education Association.
"Grubin has the eye of a poet and the ear of a musician..." Daily News
LBJ, his 4 hour biography of Lyndon Johnson, won the duPont
Award among many other prizes, and was chosen as one of the best documentaries
of 1992 by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, and People magazine.
"LBJ is historical filmmaking at its deepest and classiest, a full, warm-blooded, ten-gallon sized portrait." Los Angeles Times
TR: THE STORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, his 4 hour biography
of Theodore Roosevelt, won a host of awards including two Emmys and a Christopher
Award.
"The great achievement of TR is the grace and even the poetry of the filmmaking...Grubin has fashioned a work of nonfiction art that simply must be
seen." New York Daily News
TRUMAN, his 4-1/2 hour biography of the 33rd president,
received a Primetime Emmy and the Writers Guild Award for best documentary
script.
"Extraordinary...marvelously intimate and unfailingly absorbing. This is the form at its most accomplished and
distinguished." USA Today
ABRAHAM AND MARY LINCOLN: A HOUSE DIVIDED, his 6 hour biography
of the Lincolns, has won many prizes and wide acclaim from critics across the
country:
" A brooding, emotional vision...with mournful elegance Grubin maps
Abraham Lincoln's spiritual and political evolution...the series grows richer
with every hour." New York Times
Some of his recent films for television include:
Destination America (4 hours)
"David Grubin's richly textured four-hour PBS
documentary on immigration takes in, among many others, migrant workers
from south of the border; modern dancers from Taiwan; and women who flee
second-class citizenship or servitude in Guatemala, the Middle East, and
even Italy. This is the sort of television that puts faces on stats, but
it's also almost elegiac: These are the doors we are bolting behind us."
New York Magazine
RFK (2 hours)
"Grubin and his editors arrange their material delicately and poetically...one gains a rare sense of man's personal evolution from politician to
statesman." The Star Ledger
"Vibrates with emotional truth." The New York Sun
"RFK provides a moment to ponder where this country has been and what it has become." The Columbus Dispatch
The Secret Life Of The Brain (5 parts)
"A handsome, humane PBS documentary [that] studies the brain but touches
the heart." Knight-Ridder News Service
"This is an extraordinary five-part look at how the brain develops
from birth through old age. It is great television." TV Guide
"Here is television that can change your view of the world." Orlando
Sentinel
Napoleon (4 parts)
" The finest TV show seen on any channel last year." New York
Post
" A stupendous piece of work...biography on its grandest scale." Newsday
" Monumental...substantively and stylistically brilliant." NY
Daily News
"Sets a standard for historical documentaries...rich...pulsating...stunning." LA Times
" Dazzling...a convincing example of great documentary filmmaking." Hollywood Reporter
Grubin's five-part series for PBS - HEALING AND THE MIND with BILL
MOYERS - has won many awards, and the companion book, for which
he was executive editor, rose to number one on The New York Times Best Sellers
list, remaining on the list for 32 weeks.
His biography - Marie Antoinette - for which he won his fourth Writer's Guild Award, premiered at Versailles in October 2005 and aired on PBS in September 2006.
His three-hour series The Mysterious Human Heart aired on PBS this October.
He has just completed a six-hour series for PBS - The Jewish Americans - slated to air in January 2008.
Currently, he is producing Oppenheimer, a two-hour series for American Experience.
A member of the executive committee of the Society of American Historians, Grubin has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College,
and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Hamilton College. He is member of the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and is a former chairman
of the board of directors of The Film Forum.
He is married to the artist Joan Grubin and lives in New York City.
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