Rob Epstein

Biography

Rob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein is a gay non-fiction filmmaker, director, producer, writer and editor. Epstein has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature for the films The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt. He has also won four national Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, two DuPont Columbia Journalism awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other awards for his documentary films.

Directed

1. Lovelace (2013) — Director
2. Howl (2010) — Director
3. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) — Director
4. The Celluloid Closet (1996) — Director
5. End Game (2018) — Director
6. And the Oscar Goes To... (2014) — Director
7. Paragraph 175 (2000) — Director
8. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019) — Director
9. Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) — Director
10. Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) — Director
11. The Battle of Amfar (2013) — Director
12. Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2023) — Director
13. State of Pride (2019) — Director
14. The AIDS Show (1986) — Director
15. Where Are We? Our Trip Through America (1992) — Director
16. Rescued from the Closet (2001) — Director
17. Underground Zero (2002) — Director
18. Musica! (2023) — Director
19. Then and Now: 1981-2004 (2004) — Director
20. Coming Out Is a Many Splendored Thing — Director

Also appeared in

1. What Is Cinema? (2013) — Self
2. Vito (2011) — Self
3. Film Hawk (2016) — Himself
4. Greetings from Washington, D.C. (1981) — Self - Interviewer
5. Zeitgeist 1977: The First Festival (2016)
6. Impresario (2022)
7. Two Films, One Legacy (2011)
8. Q&A at the DGA: Rob Epstein and Tom Ammiano (2008) — Self