William Couturié is a film director and producer, best known for his work in the field of documentary film.
Accolades
He won the 1989 Academy Award for the AIDS documentary ' that he produced with Rob Epstein and multiple Emmy Awards for his 1987 film ', which he wrote, produced, and directed.
Other works
Couturié was an early collaborator of filmmaker John Korty, working on his 1983 animated feature, Twice Upon a Time alongside George Lucas. His sole video game credit is serving as a producer on the Laserdisc arcade game Freedom Fighter, of which Charles Swenson and Ken Melville of Twice Upon a Time were also involved. More recently he co-produced and directed the film Guru of Go, a documentary for the ESPN 30 for 30 series about Paul Westhead' s unorthodox fast break basketball offense at Loyola Marymount University called "The System" featuring Gregory "Bo" Kimble and Hank Gathers.
Filmography
- Can't It Be Anyone Else (1980); producer
- Porklips Now (1980): producer
- Twice Upon a Time (1983); producer and writer
- Vietnam Requiem (1984); director and producer
- ' (1987); director, producer and writer
- Freedom Fighter (Laserdisc arcade game) (1987); producer
- ' (1989); producer
- ' (1991); director and producer
- ' (1992); director, producer and writer
- Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (1994); executive producer
- Ed (1996); director and executive producer
- A Place at the Table (2001); executive producer
- ' (2002); executive producer
- The West Wing Documentary Special (2002); director and writer
- Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq (2004); director and producer
- Into the Fire (2005); director and writer
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); director, producer and writer
- The Alzheimer's Project (2009); director and producer (1 episode)
- Guru of Go (2010); director and producer (featured on 30 for 30)
- Thumbs (2011); director
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