Bill Couturié

William Couturié is a film director and producer, best known for his work in the field of documentary film.

Accolades
He won the 1989 Academy Award for the AIDS documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt that he produced with Rob Epstein and multiple Emmy Awards for his 1987 film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, which he wrote, produced, and directed.

Other works
Couturié was an early collaborator of filmmaker John Korty, working on his 1983 animated feature, Twice Upon a Time alongside George Lucas. His sole video game credit is serving as a producer on the Laserdisc arcade game Freedom Fighter, of which Charles Swenson and Ken Melville of Twice Upon a Time were also involved. More recently he co-produced and directed the film Guru of Go, a documentary for the ESPN 30 for 30 series about Paul Westhead' s unorthodox fast break basketball offense at Loyola Marymount University called "The System" featuring Gregory "Bo" Kimble and the late Hank Gathers.

Filmography

 * Can't It Be Anyone Else (1980); producer
 * Porklips Now (1980): producer
 * Twice Upon a Time (1983); producer and writer
 * Vietnam Requiem (1984); director and producer
 * Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987); director, producer and writer
 * Freedom Fighter (Laserdisc arcade game) (1987); producer
 * Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989); producer
 * Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers (1991); director and producer
 * Earth and the American Dream (FI) (1992); director, producer and writer
 * Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (1994); executive producer
 * Ed (1996); director and executive producer
 * A Place at the Table (2001); executive producer
 * Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (2002); executive producer
 * The West Wing Documentary Special (2002); director and writer
 * Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq (2004); director and producer
 * Into the Fire (2005); director and writer
 * Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); director, producer and writer
 * The Alzheimer's Project (2009); director and producer (1 episode)
 * Guru of Go (2010); director and producer (featured on 30 for 30)
 * Thumbs (2011); director