Cynthia Scott

Cynthia Scott
Born (1939-01-01) 1 January 1939 (age 85)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer

Cynthia Scott RCA (born January 1, 1939) is a Canadian award-winning filmmaker who has produced, directed, written, and edited several films with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Her works have won the Oscar and Canadian Film Award. Scott is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[1] Her projects with the NFB are mainly focused on documentary filmmaking. Some of Scott's most notable documentaries for the NFB feature dancing and the dance world including Flamenco at 5:15 (1983), which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 56th Academy Awards in 1984.[2] She is married to filmmaker John N. Smith;[3] their son is actor Dylan Smith.[4]

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  2. ^ Oscars.org
  3. ^ "Tiff.net". Archived from the original on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  4. ^ Fontana, Christine (4 March 2019). "Dark for Art's Sake". New Orleans Living Magazine. Retrieved 3 November 2024.