FILM DIRECTOR

Kevin Macdonald

1967 - Today

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Kevin Macdonald (born 28 October 1967) is a Scottish film director. His films include One Day in September (1999), a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the climbing documentary Touching the Void (2003), the drama The Last King of Scotland (2006), the political thriller State of Play (2009), the Bob Marley documentary Marley (2012), the post-apocalyptic drama How I Live Now (2013), the thriller Black Sea (2014), the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney (2018), and the legal drama film The Mauritanian (2021). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Kevin Macdonald is the 1,816th most popular film director (down from 1,668th in 2024), the 6,486th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,836th in 2019) and the 141st most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Kevin Macdonald ranks 1,816 out of 2,041. Before him are Damián Szifron, Cate Shortland, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Jon M. Chu, John A. Russo, and Espen Sandberg. After him are Peter Cattaneo, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, Cesc Gay, David Nutter, Pamela Fryman, and Samira Makhmalbaf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Kevin Macdonald ranks 632. Before him are Alessandro Rossi, Kim Ki-hoon, Heimir Hallgrímsson, Daniel Timofte, Freddie Pitcher, and Renzo Gracie. After him are Yannick Jadot, Hisashi Tsuchida, Cesc Gay, Fat Mike, Sérgio Soares, and Andrius Mamontovas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kevin Macdonald ranks 6,488 out of 8,785. Before him are Alastair Sim (1900), Michelle Gomez (1966), Jennifer Kendal (1934), Ian Porterfield (1946), Michael Kiwanuka (1987), and Tom Lockyer (1994). After him are Perrie Edwards (1993), Danny McGrain (1950), Peter Cattaneo (1964), William Alwyn (1905), Bobby Lennox (1943), and Rupert Penry-Jones (1970).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Kevin Macdonald ranks 141. Before him are Antonia Bird (1951), Tomm Moore (1977), Peter Lord (1953), Bill Forsyth (1946), David Mackenzie (1966), and Miguel Sapochnik (1974). After him are Peter Cattaneo (1964), Simon Curtis (1960), Adam Curtis (1955), Simon Kinberg (1973), Peter Webber (1968), and David Slade (1969).

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