{{short description|American film director (born 1931)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Terry Sanders | image = Terry Sanders.jpg | caption = Sanders in 2008 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1931|12|20}} | birth_place = [[New York City, New York]], U.S. | mother = [[Altina Schinasi]] | spouse = [[Freida Lee Mock]] | occupation = Filmmaker }}
'''Terry Sanders''' (born December 20, 1931) is an American filmmaker and two-time [[Academy Award]] winner. He [[film producer|produced]] and/or [[film director|directed]] more than 70 dramatic features, televisions specials, [[Documentary film|documentaries]] and portrait [[film]]s.
==Career== Sanders co-heads the [[American Film Foundation]] and has produced and photographed the Oscar-winning dramatic [[short film|short]] ''[[A Time Out of War]]''. He was second unit director of the aerial scenes in ''[[The Night of the Hunter (film)|Night of the Hunter]]''. He received an [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature]] in 1994 for ''[[Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Winners & Nominees |date=October 5, 2014 |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1995 |accessdate=December 30, 2015 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref> He also produced and co-directed ''[[Crime & Punishment, USA]]'' with his now-deceased brother, [[Denis Sanders]]. He worked as a producer-director for [[David L. Wolper|Davd Wolper]] Productions.
== Personal == He is the son of sculptor and designer [[Altina Schinasi]].
== Filmography == {{expand list|date=January 2022}} *''[[Liza, Liza, Skies are Grey]]'' 2017 <ref>{{cite web | title=Staying Alive: The Director of Liza, Liza, Skies Are Grey Shares How He's Sustained a 63-Year Moviemaking Career - MovieMaker Magazine | date=August 14, 2017 | url=https://www.moviemaker.com/terry-sanders-liza-liza-skies-are-grey/ }}</ref> *''The Eyes of Don Bachardy'' *''[[Return with Honor]]'', presented by [[Tom Hanks]] *''Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age'', 1997, narrated by [[Robert MacNeil]] (includes an interview with [[Tim Berners-Lee]] and [[Peter Norton]] of [[Norton Utilities]]) *''[[Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper]],'' 1995 *''[[Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision]],'' 1994, (Oscar win) <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXsfo_5l7U Documentary Winners: 1995 Oscars]</ref> * ''[[Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember]]'', 1990, narrated by [[Ted Kennedy|Edward Kennedy]] (Oscar nomination) <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dv58ssSr08 Documentary Winners: 1991 Oscars]</ref> * ''Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record'' (1987)<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1R17b9Fz8M |title=1987 Slow Fires—On the Preservation of the Human Record |date=2025-07-07 |last=lazenby |access-date=2025-07-13 |via=YouTube}}</ref> * ''The Japan Project: Made in Japan'' * ''[[To Live or Let Die]],'' 1982 (Oscar nominated) * ''[[Screenwriters: Words Into Image|Screenwriters: Words Into Images]]'', 1982 * ''The New Indians'' (1976), a National Geographic Society and WQED-Pittsburgh production produced by Sanders and [[Freida Lee Mock]]; directed by Sanders; and narrated by [[Robert Redford]] * ''Copland Portrait, American Composer'' with [[Aaron Copland]] (1975), produced and directed by Sanders and co-produced by Freida Lee Mock, for US Information Agency * ''[[Four Stones for Kanemitsu]],'' 1973, (Oscar nomination) <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndnY9aU85Mo Documentary Winners: 1974 Oscars]</ref> * ''Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me'' * ''[[Portrait of Zubin Mehta]]'' (1967), produced and directed by Sanders, for US Information Agency and narrated by [[Lawrence Dobkin]] * ''A Meeting With America'' (1965), for US Information Agency about the visit of US visit of Upper Volta President [[Maurice Yaméogo|Maurice Yameogo]] * ''1964'':''The Conventions'' (1964), written, produced, and directed, for US Information Agency and narrated by Lawrence Dobkin * ''Fighting for Life'' * ''[[War Hunt|Hunt]],''1962 * ''[[Crime & Punishment, USA]]''[[Crime & Punishment, USA|, 1959]] * ''[[A Time Out of War]]'', 1954
== See also == * [[American Film Foundation]] (co-founder) * [[Denis Sanders]]
== References == {{reflist}} == External links == *{{imdb name|id=0761739|name=Terry Sanders}} *[https://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/terry-sanders-collection The moving image collection of Terry Sanders is housed at the Academy Film Archive]
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