Morgan Neville

Morgan Neville

  • Birthday: 1967-10-10
  • Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

Morgan Neville is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. For over twenty years he has been making films about music and cultural subjects including Troubadours, Search and Destroy and three Grammy-nominated films: Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, Muddy Waters Can’t Be Satisfied, and Johnny Cash’s America. His non-music films include The Cool School, Steinbeck and Shotgun Freeway: Drives Thru Lost L.A.. Neville has also produced many documentaries, including Pearl Jam Twenty, Crossfire Hurricane and Beauty is Embarrassing. In 2014, 20 Feet From Stardom, won numerous awards including the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary. Most recently, Best of Enemies won an Emmy Award for Best Historical Documentary at the 2017 News and Documentary Emmy Awards. The film was also shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Other recent projects include Keith Richards: Under the Influence (Director), Chelsea Does (Executive Producer), a series of four documentaries with Chelsea Handler for Netflix, and Abstract: The Art of Design, also for Netflix.

Filmography

A Documentary on Documentaries

2017

As Self - Documentary Filmmaker

Production

Beauty Is Embarrassing

2012

As Producer

Troubadours

2011

As Director

20 Feet from Stardom

2013

As Director

Crossfire Hurricane

2012

As Producer

Johnny Cash's America

2008

As Director

Best of Enemies

2015

As Director

Best of Enemies

2015

As Writer

Best of Enemies

2015

As Producer

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

2018

As Director

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

2018

As Producer

The Union

2011

As Co-Producer

The Cool School

2008

As Director

20 Feet from Stardom

2013

As Producer

Pearl Jam Twenty

2011

As Producer

Burn

2012

As Executive Producer

American Revolutions: The Highwaymen

2006

As Executive Producer

Johnny Cash's America

2008

As Executive Producer

Miss Americana

2020

As Producer

Shotgun Freeway

1995

As Writer

Shotgun Freeway

1995

As Director

We Were There to be There

2021

As Executive Producer

A Fighting Chance

2016

As Director

A Fighting Chance

2016

As Writer

Art for Everybody

2023

As Producer

The Painter and the Thief

2020

As Executive Producer

Thank You Very Much

2023

As Executive Producer

Piece by Piece

2024

As Director

Piece by Piece

2024

As Producer

Man on the Run

0000

As Director

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