George Hickenlooper

George Hickenlooper (1963, St. Louis) graduated from Yale University (1986) and won recognition as a successful documentary filmmaker. He directed the short documentary films such as Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper (1988), Monte Hellman: American Auteur (1997) and Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (1991). Along with Fax Bahr and Francis Ford Coppola he won a special Emmy Award in 1992 for his direction of the feature-length documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991). He was awarded at the Aspen Shortfest for his short drama Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994). In 2004 he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for the documentary Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003), which maps out the fortunes of musical impresario Rodney Birgenheimer. He has also been making feature films since 1993.

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