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Jon Blair, CBE is a South African-born writer, film producer and director of documentary films, drama and comedy who has lived in England and the United States ever since he was drafted into the South African army in the late 1960s. He is the only director of documentaries working in the United Kingdom who has won all three of the premier awards in his field: an Oscar, an Emmy (twice) and a British Academy Award. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to film. ==Documentaries== ''Anne Frank Remembered'', written, produced and directed by Blair, is the winner of an Academy Award for Documentary Feature (''Oscar''), as well as an International Emmy, a CableACE, the International Documentary Association Distinguished Achievement Award, the Audience Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Jury Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival and a Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival together with awards for editing and cinematography at the New York Film and Television Festival. It has also been featured at the Melbourne, Montreal and Toronto International Film Festivals (all non-competitive). The film was distributed theatrically in the UK, North America and Australia. Blair is the winner of a British Academy Award for Best Documentary for his 1983 film, ''Schindler'', which preceded Steven Spielberg's feature by 10 years and was used extensively by Spielberg as a research resource. ''Schindler'' was narrated by Dirk Bogarde and written, produced and directed by Blair. Between January 2011 and July 2013 Blair was in charge of Major Series and Documentary Specials for the broadcaster AlJazeera English. In late 2011 he had the Discussions brief added to his portfolio . During his time at Al Jazeera he commissioned and executive produced a range of one-off documentaries and series as well as creating new talk show formats. As Executive Producer of ''Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark'', directed by May Ying Welsh for Aljazeera, Jon won a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, an Amnesty International Media Award, a UK Foreign Press Association Feature Story of the Year Award, a George Polk Award for Journalism, and a Scripps Howard Foundation Jack R Howard Award, and was nominated for a British Academy Award and a Royal Television Society Award. In 2012 Blair was asked to create formats and commission high profile series and one-off documentaries for AlJazeera's new American channel and in that capacity he commissioned some of the United States' best known non-fiction film makers to make a range of documentaries and series to be shown in 2014. Before he joined AlJazeera, Blair's feature documentary, ''Dancing with the Devil'', premiered at the Silverdocs Festival in the USA in June 2009 and had its Latin American premiere at the Festival do Rio, the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival in October 2009. Peter Bradshaw of ''The Guardian'' described it as "horribly fascinating",〔 in ''The Guardian'', 5 October 2009〕 it portrays the bloody battle between drug lords and police in Rio de Janeiro where more than 1000 people die each year. During 2007 and early 2008 Blair made ''Ochberg's Orphans'' for Rainmaker Films, about the 1921 expedition of one Isaac Ochberg who saved nearly 200 orphans from the wreckage of post-revolutionary Russia. The film was shortlisted for an Oscar for Short Documentary. In August 2007 Blair completed ''Murder Most Foul'' a 75-minute feature documentary for More 4 about crime in South Africa with the ex-South African Shakespearean actor, Sir Antony Sher. In 2006, Blair produced and directed a multi episode comedy series for BBC1, ''Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy''. In 2005 Jon made two one-hour drama documentaries for Discovery Networks Europe in the ''Zero Hour'' series, about the Oklahoma bomb and the plot to kill Pope John Paul II. Prior to that he worked as an Executive Producer for Discovery for 8 months. In 2003–04, he produced a 4-hour series – of which he produced, wrote and directed 3 hours – ''Reporters at War'', a first hand history of war reporting, featuring some of the most famous American and British war reporters through the ages. The Series won an Emmy in the US for Best Historical Programming. His feature length opening programme of the series won the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for best multi-channel programme for 2003 and was nominated for the Broadcast Award for Best Multi-Channel Programme for 2003/4, as well as receiving an Honourable Mention at Banff. The Series also received a Gold Medal at the New York Festivals. Following a programme on ''Bin Laden: the Early Years'' for Channel Four after 11 September 2001, in 2002 he was Series Producer, as well as director and writer of two episodes, of the four part series, ''The Age of Terror''. The Series made by 3BM Television received wide critical acclaim including an International Documentary Association Award nomination and winning the Broadcast Award for Best Multi-Channel Programme for 2002. The Series was also nominated for a Banff Documentary Award. Also in 2002, Blair produced, wrote, directed and narrated ''The Meyssan Conspiracy'', about a 9/11 conspiracy theory, for Channel Four Science and then a rapid turn-round special, also for Channel Four, on the Bali bombing. He was also a contributor to The Times Special Supplement on the first anniversary of the 11 September tragedy. As a producer/director on the British TV shows ''Tonight'', ''This Week'' and ''TV Eye'', Blair covered domestic and foreign political and economic stories including the first programme about the 1976 Soweto uprising for British television, ''There Is No Crisis!'', and coverage of wars in the Middle East, Cambodia and Angola. As a war correspondent/feature writer he has contributed to ''The Times'', ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Observer'', ''The Economist'' and ''The New York Times''. He has also been a book reviewer for the ''Los Angeles Times''. Having created one of the first independent production companies in England with Spitting Image Productions, Blair set up his own company, Jon Blair Films, in 1987. The company's first production was a feature documentary co-produced with BBC1 which Jon produced, directed and wrote, ''Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?''. It tells the story of a year in the life of the small cow town in Wyoming where the actress Glenn Close's parents now live. The feature-length version was narrated by Robert Redford who, before agreeing to work on the film, told Close and Blair that he thought it was "one of the best films about the American West" he had ever seen. Blair then wrote and produced a drama documentary for Channel Four, ''The Kimberley Carlile Inquiry'' based on Louis Blom-Cooper's inquiry into the circumstances surrounding that infamous case of child abuse. The production starred Julie Covington, Brian Cox, Kenneth Cranham, Daniel Day-Lewis, Trevor Eve, Alan Howard, Anna Massey, Diana Quick, Zoe Wanamaker and others. His follow-up documentary on child protection in Coventry was later used extensively in training service providers. Another of Blair's documentaries on medical/social issues, made for ITV on the misuse of the drug Haloperidol in prisons and police stations, has been cited as a good example of how to approach complex medical issues in popular television. Other productions included an early example of a formatted documentary, ''Thighs, Lies & Beauty'', an investigation of the myths and reality surrounding the beauty business for BBC1; ''The Art of Tripping'', a 2-hour dramatised documentary for Channel Four on drug taking and the arts starring Bernard Hill; a ''Frontline'' (Channel Four) current affairs film featuring the story of South African Jann Turner whose father was assassinated in front of her when she was 13, and as an adult returns to South Africa to look at the arguments for revenge versus reconciliation in the new South Africa; ''Steven Spielberg on "Schindler's List"'' and ''Tom Hanks & The World According to Gump'', both for the BBC; and ''Wagner vs Wagner'', for Channel Four, featuring Richard Wagner's great grandson on the composer's political and cultural legacy of anti-semitism and race hatred. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jon Blair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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