1960Winner
Best Performance
L'Avventura
Jack O'Connell
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Biography
Jack O'Connell was a film director, writer and producer. He was an overlooked pioneer of independent cinema, captured the zeitgeist of 60s America with Revolution, his iconic documentary of the San Francisco hippie counter-culture during the Summer of Love, 1967. Jack started out in spending 10 years in advertising. In 1959 he travelled to Italy to learn filmmaking in the spirit of Fellini and Antonioni.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1963Nominee
Best Director
Greenwich Village Story
1971Nominee
Best Writing
Swedish Fly Girls
Career Highlights
1968Highlight
Best Writing
Revolution
1996Highlight
Best Director
The Hippie Revolution
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L'Avventura
Greenwich Village Story