Richard Rowley (film director)

Richard Rowley (also known as Rick Rowley) is a documentary filmmaker. His films and TV shows have received three Emmy awards, an Oscar nomination, and other awards and nominations, as well as recognition at film festivals around the world.

Rowley's Oscar-nominated feature Dirty Wars was the culmination of ten years as a war reporter in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the lesser-known battlegrounds of America's war on terror. Since then, Rowley has turned his lens on racial injustice in the United States. His 2019 feature for Showtime, 16 Shots, won Television Academy honors and a Peabody nomination for its unflinching look at the police murder of Laquan McDonald and the cover-up that followed. His Emmy-winning series Documenting Hate unmasked an underground Nazi fight club and a terrorist cell. The series received a DuPont Award and prompted an FBI investigation that led to dozens of arrests. His latest film, Kingdom Of Silence, is the story of the life and death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.^[1]

Selected Awards

• 2014 Academy Award Nomination – Best Documentary^[2]

• 2013 Sundance Film Festival – Documentary Cinematography Award^[2]

• 2022 Emmy Nominee – Outstanding Current Events Documentary^[2]
• 2021 Emmy Winner – Outstanding Politics Documentary^[2]
• 2020 Emmy Winner – Outstanding Investigative Documentary^[2]
• 2019 Emmy Winner – Outstanding Investigative Documentary^[2]

• 2020 Television Academy Honors Winner – Documentary^[2]
• 2020 DuPont Columbia Award^[3]
• 2022 DuPont Columbia Award^[4]
• 2022 George Polk Award^[5]
• 2022 Peabody Award^[6]
• 2022 Edward R Murrow Award^[7]

Selected filmography

Rick Rowley directed or co-directed these documentary films:

• Zapatista (1999) – about the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico^[8]
• This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000) – about the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle^[9]
• Black and Gold (2001) – about the Latin Kings in New York City^[10]
• The Fourth World War (2003) – about resistance movements around the world^[11][12]
• Dirty Wars (2013) – about the war on terror and the Joint Special Operations Command^{[13][14][15][16]}
• The Blue Wall (2018) – about the murder of Laquan McDonald and subsequent events^[17][18][19]
• 16 Shots (2019) – an updated and expanded version of The Blue Wall^[20][21][22]
• Kingdom of Silence (2020) – about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi^[23][24][25]
• American Insurrection (2021) – about the 2021 United States Capitol attack^[26][27] (Nominated for a 2021 Peabody Award).

External links

• Richard Rowley at IMDb

References

1. Fleischer, Victoria (February 27, 2014). "Oscar-Nominated Dirty Wars Aims to Make a Covert War More 'Real'". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
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3. "Winners of the 2020 duPont-Columbia Awards | Columbia Journalism School". journalism.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
4. "Three FRONTLINE Reports Honored as 2022 duPont-Columbia Award Finalists". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
5. "FRONTLINE Wins George Polk Award for "American Insurrection"". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
6. "FRONTLINE: Michael Flynn's Holy War". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
7. "FRONTLINE (PBS) Wins 3 Edward R. Murrow Awards". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
8. Baumgarten, Marjorie (November 1, 2000). "Zapatista". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
9. Harvey, Dennis (December 14, 2000). "This Is What Democracy Looks Like". Variety. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
10. Deming, Mark. "Black & Gold (1999)". AllMovie. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
11. Goodman, Amy; Gonzalez, Juan (August 26, 2004). "The Fourth World War: An Unembedded View of Global Resistance". Democracy Now. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
12. DeNies, Ramona (February 2004). "Film Review: The Fourth World War: Nothing Subtle About It". The Portland Alliance. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
13. Osenlund, R. Kurt (June 7, 2013). "Richard Rowley on Dirty Wars". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
14. Taylor, Ella (June 6, 2013). "Covert Conflicts, Decried In 'Dirty Wars'". NPR. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
15. Holden, Stephen (June 6, 2013). "From the Front Lines, If You Can See Them". New York Times. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
16. Boone, Steven (June 13, 2013). "Dirty Wars". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
17. Zorn, Eric (May 4, 2018). "Coming Soon: A Laquan McDonald Documentary That Makes the Story Even Worse". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
18. Wilner, Norman (April 25, 2018). "Hot Docs review: The Blue Wall". Now Magazine. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
19. Prince, C.J. (May 5, 2018). "Hot Docs 2018: The Blue Wall". The Cinessential. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
20. Swartz, Tracy (June 11, 2019). "5 Things to Know About '16 Shots,' the New Documentary About Laquan McDonald's Killing". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
21. Jaworowski, Ken (June 6, 2019). "'16 Shots' Review: Chicago's Rage After a Killing by the Police". The New York Times. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
22. Scheck, Frank (June 7, 2019). "'16 Shots': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
23. Kenigsberg, Ben (October 1, 2020). "'Kingdom of Silence' Review: A Spotlight on Jamal Khashoggi". New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
24. McFarland, Melanie (October 2, 2020). ""Kingdom of Silence": A Wrenching Look at How Jamal Khashoggi's Life Is a Story as Big as His Death". Salon.com. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
25. Aguilar, Carlos (October 2, 2020). "Kingdom of Silence". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
26. Oller, Jacob (April 13, 2021). "American Insurrection Attempts to Shine a Light on Hate Groups Operating In Broad Daylight". Paste Magazine. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
27. "Frontline: American Insurrection". PBS. Retrieved July 31, 2022.