2025Nominee
Best Director
The Librarians
Kim A. Snyder
Actor · Director · Producer
Biography
Kim A. Snyder is an Academy Award® nominee and Peabody Award-winning Director / Producer whose latest feature, THE LIBRARIANS, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and will release globally in late 2025. Her Oscar-nominated short DEATH BY NUMBERS, co-created with gun-violence survivor Sam Fuentes, has won multiple awards. Snyder’s acclaimed films include US KIDS (Sundance 2020), LESSONS FROM A SCHOOL SHOOTING (Netflix Original), and NEWTOWN (Sundance 2016, Peabody Award, PBS). Her earlier work includes WELCOME TO SHELBYVILLE (PBS) and I REMEMBER ME (Zeitgeist Films). She also associate produced the Oscar-winning short TREVOR, which spawned The Trevor Project. Snyder holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS and lives in New York City.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2026Nominee
Best Picture
First They Came for My College
1995Nominee
Best Picture
The West Side Waltz
Career Highlights
2007Highlight
Best Director
Alone No Love
2011Highlight
Best Director
Welcome to Shelbyville
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The Librarians
Trevor
Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane