Academy Award Winner Morgan Neville Captures Lorne Michaels
5/5/202642 min
Morgan Neville is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose work has captured some of the most iconic figures in American music, film, and television. Neville’s 2013 film “20 Feet from Stardom” won the Oscar for best documentary feature. A few years later, his 2018 film about Fred Rogers, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” became the highest-grossing biographical documentary of all time. Neville has directed films about subjects ranging from Keith Richards to Anthony Bourdain, from Orson Welles to Steve Martin, and Paul McCartney.
In addition to his Academy Award, Neville has earned a Grammy, an Emmy, and a Peabody award for his work. A native of Southern California, Neville studied colonial American history at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career as a journalist and later founded his film company, Tremolo Productions, in 1999. Neville's most recent film “Lorne” profiles the creator of Saturday Night Live.
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[upbeat music] This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's The Thing from iHeartRadio. My guest today is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose work has captured some of the most iconic figures in American music, film, and television. Morgan Neville's 2013 film, 20 Feet From Stardom, won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. A few years later, his 2018 film about Fred Rogers, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, became the highest grossing biographical documentary of all time. Neville has directed films about subjects ranging from Keith Richards to Anthony Bourdain, from Orson Welles to Steve Martin and Paul McCartney. In addition to his Academy Award, Neville has earned a Grammy, an Emmy, and a Peabody Award for his work. A native of Southern