Lucy Walker (born in London, United Kingdom) is a film director, mostly of theatrical feature documentaries. On January 25th, 2011 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Waste Land, which she directed.
On January 24th, 2012 she received a second consecutive Academy Award nomination, this time in the Best Documentary Short category for The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, which she directed and produced. On that sam...
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Lucy Walker (born in London, United Kingdom) is a film director, mostly of theatrical feature documentaries. On January 25th, 2011 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Waste Land, which she directed.
On January 24th, 2012 she received a second consecutive Academy Award nomination, this time in the Best Documentary Short category for The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, which she directed and produced. On that same day the film was also awarded the Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Lucy Walker is best known for directing four feature documentary films:Devil's Playground (2002), Blindsight (2006), Waste Land (2010) and Countdown to Zero (2010), as well as one documentary short film The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011).
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom is described as "a visual haiku for Japan" documenting the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the survivors' struggle to survive and continue, and as a...
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