Bruce Sinofsky

About Bruce Sinofsky

Who is it?: Director, Producer, Editor
Birth Day: March 19, 1931
Birth Place:  Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Birth Sign: Aries

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Bruce Sinofsky was born on March 19, 1931 in  Boston, Massachusetts, United States, is Director, Producer, Editor. Bruce Sinofsky was born on March 31, 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA as Bruce Jeffrey Sinofsky. He was a director and producer, known for Brother's Keeper (1992), Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004) and Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996). He was married to Florence Sinofsky. He died on February 21, 2015 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA.
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Awards and nominations:

Sinofsky won a Directors Guild of America Award and two Emmys, one for the first film in the Paradise Lost trilogy, The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. He was nominated for an Academy Award for the third film in the trilogy, Purgatory, in 2011.

Biography/Timeline

1978

Sinofsky was born to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 1978.

1991

Sinofsky began his career at Maysles Films. As Senior Editor at the company, he worked on commercials and feature films until 1991, when he and Joe Berlinger formed their own production company, Creative Thinking International. They jointly produced, edited and directed documentary films which have appeared on over 50 critics choice lists, including Brother's Keeper (1992), the Paradise Lost trilogy (1996, 2004, 2011), Hollywood High (2003) and Some Kind of Monster (2004).

1992

The first movie Sinofsky directed, in 1992, was the documentary Brother's Keeper, which tells the story of Delbart Ward, an elderly man in Munnsville, New York, who was charged with second-degree murder following the death of his brother william. Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, in his review of the movie, called it "an extraordinary documentary about what happened next, as a town banded together to stop what folks saw as a miscarriage of justice."

2011

Sinofsky won a Directors Guild of America Award and two Emmys, one for the first film in the Paradise Lost trilogy, The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. He was nominated for an Academy Award for the third film in the trilogy, Purgatory, in 2011.

2015

Sinofsky died on February 21, 2015 at the age of 58, from diabetes-related complications. The band Metallica paid tribute to him as a "courageous man with deep empathy and wisdom who wasn't afraid to dig deep to tell the story." Berlinger wrote that Sinofsky's "humanity is on every frame of the films that he leaves behind."

2016

The 2016 film Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru is dedicated to his memory.

2018

The 2018 documentary “May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers” [1] is also dedicated to his memory.