Morgan Neville
Morgan Neville (born October 10, 1967) is an American documentary film producer, director, and writer. His acclaimed film 20 Feet from Stardom won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2014 as well as a Grammy Award for Best Music Film. His documentary Best of Enemies, on the debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, was shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Award and won an Emmy Award. His 2018 film Won't You Be My Neighbor?, a documentary about Fred Rogers, received critical acclaim and became the highest-grossing biographical documentary of all time.
Neville has been nominated for five additional Grammys for films including Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, Muddy Waters: Can’t Be Satisfied, Johnny Cash’s America, and The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. Neville’s other films include The Cool School, Shotgun Freeway, Keith Richards: Under the Influence, and, as producer, Miss Americana, Beauty Is Embarrassing, and Crossfire Hurricane.
For television, Neville directed and executive produced the series Ugly Delicious, Abstract: The Art of Design, Chelsea Does, Shangri-La, and Song Exploder.
Crew
Beauty Is Embarrassing
Producer
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Producer, Director
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Writer, Producer
We Were There to Be There
Executive Producer
Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
Director
20 Feet from Stardom
Director, Producer
Crossfire Hurricane
Producer
Thank You Very Much
Executive Producer
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
Executive Producer
Johnny Cash's America
Director, Executive Producer
Best of Enemies
Director, Writer, Producer
Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan: 'Cowboy' Jack Clement's Home Movies
Director, Producer
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
Director, Producer
Keith Richards: Under the Influence
Director, Producer
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
Producer
Piece by Piece
Director, Producer, Writer
Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story
Director
A Fighting Chance
Writer, Director
Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman
Director, Producer
Art for Everybody
Producer
Paul McCartney: Man on the Run
Director, Producer
The Painter and the Thief
Executive Producer
The Saint of Second Chances
Director, Producer
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Director, Producer
American Revolutions: The Highwaymen
Executive Producer, Director
Search and Destroy: Iggy & The Stooges' Raw Power
Director, Executive Producer
Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
Producer
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Director, Producer
Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
Writer, Director
Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10
Director
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock'n'Roll
Director
Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A.
Director, Writer
This is Not a House
Director
BTS Army: Forever We Are Young
Executive Producer
