Rob Epstein

Robert P. Epstein (born April 6, 1955), is an American director, producer, writer, and editor. He is known for directing numerous documentaries, several of them focusing on the LGBTQ community and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award.

Epstein won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature twice for the films ''The Times of Harvey Milk'' (1984) and ''Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt'' (1989). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for ''End Game'' (2018). He also directed the documentaries ''Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives'' (1977), ''The AIDS Show'' (1986), ''The Celluloid Closet'' (1996), and ''Paragraph 175'' (2000). He made his narrative directorial film debut with the historical drama ''Howl'' (2010) followed by ''Lovelace'' (2013). Provided by Wikipedia