2023Nominee
Best Performance
32 Sounds
Sam Green
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
East Lansing, Michigan, USA
January 1, 1966
Biography
Sam Green (born in 1966; East Lansing) is an American documentary filmmaker. His most recent projects are “live documentaries” including 32 Sounds (2022) with electronic musician JD Samson, A Thousand Thoughts (2018) in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, The Measure of All Things (2014), and The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (2012), which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival. All four works are performed live, with Green narrating and musicians performing the soundtrack. Green's 2004 film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award, included in the Whitney Biennial, and broadcast nationally on PBS.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2026Nominee
Best Director
The Oldest Person in the World
2002Nominee
Best Director
The Weather Underground
Career Highlights
2008Highlight
Best Performance
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
2008Highlight
Best Director
Clear Glasses
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32 Sounds
The Weather Underground
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans