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Nicholas D. Wrathall is known for Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013), Undermined - Tales from the Kimberley (2018) and Independent Lens (1999).
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May 23, 2014 · As a young child, Nicholas D. Wrathall wanted to be the silver robot from the 1960s television sitcom Lost in Space. Instead, at age 21 the Australian-born Wrathall moved to New York, fell into the film industry, and became close friends with writer-director Burr Steers ( Igby Goes Down, Charlie St. Cloud ).
Nic is the recipient of an Alfred I. Dupont Columbia Award Winner for Broadcast Journalism; the United Nations Association Film Festival Grand Jury Award For Best Documentary; an Audience Special Recognition Award at Aspen Filmfest; runner-up, Audience Award Best Documentary Film at Traverse City Film Festival; and the Audience Award, Best Docum...
Nicholas Wrathall is an award-winning director and producer who has been working in the documentary and commercial fields for more than fifteen years.
Feb 27, 2014 · Ahead of the film’s Scottish premiere, director Nicholas D. Wrathall explains the film’s origins and shares his impressions of the man himself. The Skinny: What initially drew you to Gore Vidal as a documentary subject?
Wrathall, who is Australian, met Gore in 2003 through filmmaker Burr Steers (“Igby Goes Down,” “17 Again”), who is Gore’s nephew and who served as a producer on the documentary. I spoke with Wrathall about his experience of getting to know the compelling Vidal and making a movie about the man.
May 22, 2014 · That observation may be the most shocking moment in “Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia,” Nicholas Wrathall’s admiring documentary portrait of Vidal, who died in 2012 at 86. Why shocking?
