D.A. Pennebaker Of Sag Harbor Receives Lifetime Achievement Oscar

Legendary Sag Harbor filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker has been named to receive a Lifetime Achievement Oscar. Pennebaker will be the first documentarian to awarded an honorary Oscar.

His movies include

• The Energy War (1978)
• Town Bloody Hall (1979)
• DeLorean (1981) with John DeLorean
• Jimi Plays Monterey (1986) with Jimi Hendrix
• 101 (1989) with Depeche Mode
• The War Room (1993)
• Woodstock Diary (1994)
• Keine Zeit (1996) with German artist Marius Müller-Westernhagen
• Victoria Williams – Happy Come Home (1997) with singer Victoria Williams
• Moon Over Broadway (1997)
• Bessie (1998)
• Down from the Mountain (2000)
• Startup.com (2001)
• Elaine Stritch: At Liberty (2004) Emmy-winning portrait of Elaine Stritch
• Only the Strong Survive (2003)
• Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) as executive producer
• Rock N Roll Music – a film involving Chuck Berry
• 65 Revisited (2007) – a one-hour documentary accompanying the new DVD release of Dont Look Back
• Kings of Pastry (2009)