Hubert Davis (filmmaker)
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Hubert Davis is a Canadian filmmaker who was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
and an Emmy Award
for Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming for his directorial debut in Hardwood
, a short documentary exploring the life of his father, former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis. Davis was the first Afro-Canadian to be nominated for an Oscar.
Davis was awarded the Don Haig award for top emerging Canadian director at the 2007 Hot Docs
Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Davis' latest film is his documentary Invisible City
.
Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
and an Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
for Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming for his directorial debut in Hardwood
Hardwood (film)
Hardwood is a 2004 short documentary film about Canadian director Hubert Davis' relationship to his father, former Harlem Globetrotters member Mel Davis...
, a short documentary exploring the life of his father, former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis. Davis was the first Afro-Canadian to be nominated for an Oscar.
Davis was awarded the Don Haig award for top emerging Canadian director at the 2007 Hot Docs
Hot Docs
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary film festival, conference, and market, held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Davis' latest film is his documentary Invisible City
Invisible City
Invisible City is a 2009 documentary film by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis, about young Black Canadian men at risk in Toronto’s Regent Park district. Davis spent three years filming two boys in their final years of high school....
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