Kevin Macdonald (born 28 October 1967) is a Scottish two-time BAFTA winning director, most famous for his films The Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void.
Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the grandson of Wendy Orme and the Hungarian-born English filmmaker Emeric Pressburger, and educated at Glenalmond College. He began his career with a biography of his grandfather, The Life and Death of a Screenwriter (1994), which he turned into t...
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Kevin Macdonald (born 28 October 1967) is a Scottish two-time BAFTA winning director, most famous for his films The Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void.
Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the grandson of Wendy Orme and the Hungarian-born English filmmaker Emeric Pressburger, and educated at Glenalmond College. He began his career with a biography of his grandfather, The Life and Death of a Screenwriter (1994), which he turned into the documentary The Making of an Englishman (1995). His brother Andrew is a film producer. Kevin is a 2nd cousin of comedian Norm Macdonald.
After making a series of biographical documentaries, Macdonald directed One Day in September (1999), about the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Possibly the most striking feature of this film was the lengthy interview with Jamal Al-Gashey, the last known survivor of the Munich terrorists (it has been suggested recently in Aaron Klein's book Striking Back that another, Mohammed Safady...
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