Bill Couturié

William "Bill" Couturié is a film director and producer, best known for his work in the field of documentary film.

Accolades

He won the 1989 Academy Award-winning documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt that he produced with Rob Epstein and multiple Emmy-Awards for his 1987 film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, which he wrote, produced, and directed.

Other works

Couturié was an early collaborator of filmmaker John Korty, working on his 1983 animated feature, Twice Upon a Time alongside George Lucas. He recently co-produced and directed the film Guru of Go, a documentary for the ESPN 30 for 30 series about Paul Westhead' s unorthodox fast break basketball offense at Loyola Marymount University called "The System" featuring Gregory "Bo" Kimble and the late Hank Gathers.

Filmography

• Can't It Be Anyone Else (1980); producer
• Porklips Now (1980): producer
• Twice Upon a Time (1983); producer and writer
• Vietnam Requiem (1984); director and producer
• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987); director, producer and writer
• Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989); producer
• Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers (1991); director and producer
• Earth and the American Dream (FI) (1992); director, producer and writer
• Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (1994); executive producer
• Ed (1996); director and executive producer
• A Place at the Table (2001); executive producer
• Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (2002); executive producer
• The West Wing Documentary Special (2002); director and writer
• Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq (2004); director and producer
• Into the Fire (2005); director and writer
• Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); director, producer and writer
• The Alzheimer's Project (2009); director and producer (1 episode)
• Guru of Go (2010); director and producer (featured on 30 for 30)
• Thumbs (2011); director

External links

• Bill Couturié at IMDb
• HBO interview