Kevin Macdonald
Born 1967 · British film director
Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish film director. His films include One Day in September (1999), a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the climbing documentary Touching the Void (2003), the drama The Last King of Scotland (2006), the political thriller State of Play (2009), the Bob Marley documentary Marley (2012), the post-apocalyptic drama How I Live Now (2013), the thriller Black Sea (2014), the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney (2018), and the legal drama film The Mauritanian (2021).
Kevin Macdonald, in order
- 1996 Howard Hawks: American Artist: directed
- 1999 One Day in September: directed · critics 96%, audiences 92% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
- 2001 Being Mick (TV movie): directed
- 2003 Touching the Void: directed, created
- 2006 The Last King of Scotland: directed
- 2007 My Enemy's Enemy: directed, wrote
- 2009 State of Play: directed · critics 84%, audiences 73%
- 2011 Life in a Day: directed · critics 79%, audiences 79%
- 2011 The Eagle: directed · critics 39%, audiences 41% · streaming on Starz
- 2012 Keyhole: acted · directed by Guy Maddin
- 2012 Marley: directed
- 2013 Christmas in a Day: directed
- 2013 How I Live Now: directed
- 2014 Black Sea: directed, produced, acted
- 2016 11.22.63 (TV series): directed
- 2016 Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang: directed
- 2017 Oasis (TV series): directed
- 2018 Whitney: directed, wrote
- 2021 Life in a Day 2020: directed
- 2021 The Mauritanian: directed
- 2024 High & Low - John Galliano: directed
- 2024 One to One: John & Yoko: directed, wrote
- 2026 The Runner: directed
- Klitschko: More Than a Fight: directed