Stanley Nelson’s Lifetime of Documenting Black Experience

The New Yorker, March 20, 2022: Stanley Nelson’s Lifetime of Documenting Black Experience

“Stanley Nelson might not be a household name, but few individuals can rival the significant role he has played in teaching Americans about our own past. Over the past thirty years, millions have seen his prize-winning documentaries which, collectively, tell the story of African American life in the twentieth century: he has made films about Marcus Garvey, the civil-rights movement, the Black Panthers, the history of Black journalists and entrepreneurs, and the complicated lives of Miles Davis and Michael Vick. In 2021, he and Traci Curry co-directed ‘Attica,’ a bracing exploration of the 1971 takeover of an upstate New York prison by inmates demanding humane living conditions. Nelson received a Directors Guild of America Award for ‘Attica,’ and it has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.”

Additional reading:

Huffington Post, March 23, 2022: With ‘Attica,’ Stanley Nelson Wants To Change How We View Incarcerated People

New York Amsterdam News, March 15, 2022: DGA Winner Stanley Nelson Talks About His Oscar-Nominated Documentary ‘Attica’ with Bill C. Myers

Democracy Now, February 18, 2022: Filmmaker Stanley Nelson on Police Brutality, Black History & His Oscar Nomination for “Attica”