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Morgan Neville

Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn October 10, 1967 (57 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Burn
  • Thank You Very Much

Known For

  • Won't You Be My Neighbor?
  • Twenty Feet from Stardom
  • Miss Americana
  • Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
  • Best of Enemies
  • Pearl Jam Twenty
  • Piece by Piece
  • Abstract: The Art of Design
  • They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
  • The Painter and the Thief
  • Ugly Delicious
  • Keith Richards: Under the Influence
  • STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces
  • Chelsea Does...
  • Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
  • Crossfire Hurricane
  • Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman
  • The Saint of Second Chances
  • Burn
  • The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
  • Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
  • Beauty Is Embarrassing
  • Shangri-La (2019)
  • SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

Filmography

2025
BTS Army: Forever We Are Young · as Executive Producer
2025
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2024
2024
2024
What's Next? The Future With Bill Gates (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2024
2023
Thank You Very Much · as Executive Producer
2023
2023
2023
2023
The 12th Victim (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2022
2021
2021
The Next Thing You Eat (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2021
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2021
2021
Worn Stories (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2020
Song Exploder (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2020
2020
The Painter and the Thief · as Executive Producer
2019
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2019
Shangri-La (2019) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2019
2018
2018
2018
Ugly Delicious (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2017
Abstract: The Art of Design (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2016
Chelsea Does... (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2015
2015
2015
2013
2012
2012
2012
Burn · as Executive Producer
2011
2011
The Union · as Co-Producer
2010
2008
Johnny Cash's America · as Executive Producer
2008
2005
1999
Independent Lens (TV Series)
1995
1991
California's Gold (TV Series) · as Associate Producer
1987
Biography (TV Series)
1985
American Masters (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1971
Great Performances (TV Series)

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