2023Nominee
Best Performance
Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of Cape St. Francis
Dana Brown
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Dana Point, California, USA
December 11, 1959
Biography
Dana Brown (born December 11, 1959, in Dana Point, California) is an American surfer and filmmaker and is the oldest son of filmmaker Bruce Brown. His films include The Endless Summer Revisited (2000), which is made up of unused footage from The Endless Summer (1964) and The Endless Summer II (1994), as well as some original interviews with the stars of those films. His first all-original film was Step Into Liquid (2003) followed by a documentary on the Baja 1000 titled Dust to Glory (2005). In 2009, he debuted a new film called Highwater during the 100th anniversary of the Santa Monica Pier; the film follows life on the North Shore and the surfers who compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. In 2014, the movie On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter continues the saga of motocross documentaries which began with the 1972 Academy Award for Documentary Feature nominated film On Any Sunday (1971).
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2007Nominee
Best Performance
One Last Dance
2003Nominee
Best Director
Step Into Liquid
Career Highlights
2005Highlight
Best Director
Dust to Glory
2014Highlight
Best Performance
On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
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Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of Cape St. Francis
One Last Dance
Dust to Glory