1976Nominee
Best Director
Tubular Swells
Jack McCoy
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Masterful surf film and video-maker from Australia; winner of the Surfer Magazine Video of the Year Award in 1996 and 1999, and widely regarded as the sport's premier cinematographer of the 1990s and early 2000s. McCoy was born (1948) in Los Angeles, the son of a radio and TV show host, spent his early childhood in Hollywood, and moved with his family in 1954 to Hawaii, where he soon began surfing.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1980Nominee
Best Director
Storm Riders
2004Winner
Best Director
Blue Horizon
Career Highlights
1990Highlight
Best Director
Bunyip Dreaming
1990Highlight
Best Director
Pump!
Video
Bunyip Dreaming