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Kirby Dick

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Kirby Dick at an event for This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
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Kirby Dick is a two time Emmy-award winning and two-time Academy award-nominated documentary film director. His most recent film, The Hunting Ground (2015), a monumental exposé about sexual assault on college campuses, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, was released by Radius/The Weinstein Company and CNN, is the 2016 recipient of the Producer Guild of America's Stanley Kramer award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. His previous film, The Invisible War (2012), a groundbreaking investigation into the epidemic of rape within the US military, won two Emmy Awards for Best Documentary and Outstanding Investigative Journalism, the 2012 Independent Spirit Award 2012 for Best Documentary, a Peabody Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He also directed Twist of Faith (2004), the story of a man confronting the trauma of his past sexual abuse by a Catholic priest, which was also nominated for an Academy Award. Other films include Outrage (2009), nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism, This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006), a breakthrough investigation of the MPAA's secretive film ratings system, and Derrida (2002), a complex portrait of the world-renowned French philosopher Jacques Derrida. He is the 2012 recipient of the Nestor Almendros Prize for Courage and Filmmaking and the 2013 Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize.
BornAugust 23, 1952
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  • Nominated for 2 Oscars

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Kirby Dick in The Invisible War (2012)
Kirby Dick in This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Atom Egoyan and Kirby Dick in This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Kirby Dick and Becky Altringer in This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Kirby Dick and Eddie Schmidt in This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Kirby Dick, Ondi Timoner, and Lucy Walker
Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
Kirby Dick
Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering, and Tanner King Barklow
Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering, and Tanner King Barklow
Kirby Dick

Known for

On the Record (2020)
On the Record
7.2
  • Director
  • 2020
The Invisible War (2012)
The Invisible War
7.6
  • Director
  • 2012
The Bleeding Edge (2018)
The Bleeding Edge
7.6
  • Director
  • 2018
Mia Farrow in Allen v. Farrow (2021)
Allen v. Farrow
6.6
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Director

  • Not So Pretty (2022)
    Not So Pretty
  • The Dark Side of a Hollywood Icon
  • Mia Farrow in Allen v. Farrow (2021)
    Allen v. Farrow
  • On the Record (2020)
    On the Record
  • The Bleeding Edge (2018)
    The Bleeding Edge
  • The Hunting Ground (2015)
    The Hunting Ground
  • The Invisible War (2012)
    The Invisible War
  • This Film Is Not Yet Rated: Deleted Scenes (2009)
    This Film Is Not Yet Rated: Deleted Scenes
  • Outrage (2009)
    Outrage
  • This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
    This Film Is Not Yet Rated
  • Twist of Faith (2004)
    Twist of Faith
    • (directed by)
  • The End (2004)
    The End
  • Showgirls: Glitz & Angst (2003)
    Showgirls: Glitz & Angst
  • Derrida (2002)
    Derrida
  • Chain Camera (2001)
    Chain Camera

Writer

  • Not So Pretty (2022)
    Not So Pretty
  • The Dark Side of a Hollywood Icon
  • Mia Farrow in Allen v. Farrow (2021)
    Allen v. Farrow
  • On the Record (2020)
    On the Record
  • The Bleeding Edge (2018)
    The Bleeding Edge
  • The Hunting Ground (2015)
    The Hunting Ground
  • The Invisible War (2012)
    The Invisible War
  • This Film Is Not Yet Rated: Deleted Scenes (2009)
    This Film Is Not Yet Rated: Deleted Scenes
  • Outrage (2009)
    Outrage
  • This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
    This Film Is Not Yet Rated
  • Guy (1996)
    Guy
  • Bob Melvin in I Am Not a Freak (1987)
    I Am Not a Freak

Producer

  • Not So Pretty (2022)
    Not So Pretty
  • The Dark Side of a Hollywood Icon
    • (produced by)
  • Mia Farrow in Allen v. Farrow (2021)
    Allen v. Farrow
  • On the Record (2020)
    On the Record
  • Twist of Faith (2004)
    Twist of Faith
  • Showgirls: Glitz & Angst (2003)
    Showgirls: Glitz & Angst
  • Chain Camera (2001)
    Chain Camera
  • Bob Flanagan in Sick (1997)
    Sick
  • Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate (1985)
    Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate
  • Men Who Are Men (1981)
    Men Who Are Men

Videos4

Theatrical Version
Trailer 1:54
Theatrical Version
Outrage
Trailer 1:59
Outrage
The Hunting Ground
Trailer 2:14
The Hunting Ground
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Trailer 2:03
This Film Is Not Yet Rated

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    • August 23, 1952
    • Tucson, Arizona, USA
    • Rita ValenciaNovember 9, 1985 - present (2 children)
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    Co-founded Chain Camera Productions and Chain Camera Pictures in 1997.
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    After watching what happened for 20 years with the ratings board and all the criticism from critics, filmmakers, even people around the country, and nothing changing at all, I felt it was really time to set out to make a film.

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