BILL GUTTENTAG (DIRECTOR / WRITER / PRODUCER)

Bill Guttentag is a two-time Oscar-winning documentary and feature film writer-producer-director. His films include LIVE!, a dramatic feature he wrote and directed starring Eva Mendes and Andre Braugher (Mosaic Media Group/The Weinstein Company), and NANKING, a documentary feature which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released last winter by THINKFilm. NANKING won awards at a number of US and international film festivals, was nominated for a Writers Guild award, and short-listed for an Oscar®.

In 2003 Bill Guttentag won an Oscar for the documentary TWIN TOWERS (Universal). He has also has received a second Oscar, three additional Oscar nominations, a Peabody Award, three Emmy Awards, two additional Emmy nominations, and a Robert Kennedy Journalism Award.

Bill Guttentag created and executive produced (with Dick Wolf) the NBC series CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, which ran for three seasons (2002-2004). He has made films for HBO, ABC, CBS, TNT and others, including YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIE (HBO), for which he also won an Oscar.

He recently completed his first novel, BOULEVARD, which will be published by Pegasus Books/W.W. Norton in February 2010. Since 2001, he has been teaching a course at Stanford University.