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My Take
Kevin Macdonald earns my trust because he refuses to stay in one lane. The Glasgow-born director won an Oscar for One Day in September, then made the harrowing climbing documentary Touching the Void, the tense drama The Last King of Scotland, the thriller State of Play, and an intimate portrait of Bob Marley. That range is rare. Plenty of filmmakers do fiction or documentary; few wield both with conviction. What I value most is his appetite for real-world weight, stories with moral stakes told without flinching. He feels to me like a serious craftsman chasing truth rather than spectacle, and I keep watching.
Overview
Kevin Macdonald (born 28 October 1967) is a Scottish film director. His films include One Day in September (1999), a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the climbing documentary Touching the Void (2003), the drama The Last King of Scotland (2006), the political thriller State of Play (2009), the Bob Marley documentary Marley (2012), t…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Kevin Macdonald
- Name (Japanese)
- ケヴィン・マクドナルド
- Reading
- けゔぃん・まくどなるど
- Born
- October 28, 1967 (age 58)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Goat
- Origin
- Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / screenwriter / film producer / director
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Glenalmond College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.