Sunnyside Films

filmmaker/cinematographer

Nick Doob has been making films since the early 70’s, acting as director, cinematographer and editor on numerous award-winning films, including three which were nominated for Academy Awards, and From Mao to Mozart which won. Nick has received six grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, including three individual filmmaking grants, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the MacArthur Foundation. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures.

He co-directed Down from the Mountain, the documentary celebrating the music from the Coen brothers film O Brother Where Art Thou, and in 2002 won an Emmy as a producer on American High the acclaimed verite TV series. He has made films for American Masters, the Oxygen Network and Carnegie Hall Productions. He has shot a number of D.A. Pennebaker films, including The War Room, Pennebaker's Academy Award-nominated documentary about Bill Clinton's presidential campaign, Moon Over Broadway, Only the Strong Survive, the Emmy award-winning Elaine Stritch at Liberty and the recent Al Franken: God Spoke.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University; Nick has made films for PBS' American Masters series; won an Emmy for his extensive work filming ITT's Big Blue Marble television series; and has been a cinematographer for NOVA and TBS.