1975Nominee
Best Performance
Messiah of Evil
Morgan Fisher
Actor · Director · Writer
Washington, D.C
January 1, 1942
Biography
Morgan Fisher is an American experimental filmmaker and artist best known for his structuralist and minimalist films referencing the material processes of celluloid film and the means and methods of producing moving images, including the camera, the director and crew, and the editing process. Fisher's work has been noted for its relationship to the Southern California landscape and its architecture during a time when the region was staking an aesthetic and intellectual claim in the larger art world. Since the 1990s, Fisher has also been producing paintings and installation works. His work has been included in three Whitney Biennial exhibitions, 1985, 2004 and 2014. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987.
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1976Nominee
Best Director
Projection Instructions
1980Nominee
Best Director
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Career Highlights
1975Highlight
Best Writing
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
1986Highlight
Best Performance
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Messiah of Evil
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer