Pierre Schoendoerffer

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Pierre Schoendoerffer
Pierre Schoendoerffer at the Cinémathèque Française
Born	Pierre Schœndœrffer (1928-05-05)5 May 1928 Chamalières, Third French Republic
Died	14 March 2012(2012-03-14) (aged 83) Clamart, France
Spouse	Patricia Schoendoerffer (1958–2012)
Awards	Best Documentary Feature Won: 1968 The Anderson Platoon IATAS Outstanding Made for Television Documentary 1967 The Anderson Platoon

Pierre Schoendoerffer (French: Pierre Schœndœrffer, pronounced [pjɛʁ ʃœ̃dœʁfɛʁ]); 5 May 1928 – 14 March 2012) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and for 2007.^[1]

In 1967, he was the winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon. The film followed a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam during 1966.