Talk:Stanley Nelson Jr.

stanley nelson
Stanley Nelson is one of the famous black history makers. He was born on June 8, 1951 in New York City. Nelson is an American documentary filmmaker in New York. As far of education he attended New Lincoln High School, which is a private school. He also attended Beloit College then transferred to six different colleges which includes: NYU, Morris Brown, and Hunter College. He received his B.F.A degree from when he attended Leonard Davis Film School. His favorite time of the year would be anytime except winter and his favorite vacation spot would be any place that is warm. Nelson worked as an assistance editor/apprentice with documentary filmmaker William Greaves. By the time 1989, Nelson directed produced and wrote his very first documentary feature called ‘’Two Dollars And A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker. Later this documentary had won the CINE Golden Eagle Award and was cited as the Best Production of the Decade by the Black Filmmaker Foundation. Soon Nelson began to work as a television producer at PBS on the series ‘’Listening to America’’. Later on Stanley and his wife, Marcia A. Smith, then formed the non-for-profit documentary film production company named ‘Firelight Media’. The film won many great awards including the Sundance Film Festival, and the George Foster Peaboy Award, 2003 Special Jury Prize an Emmy for Best Directing-Nonfiction. Citing the presence of the new evidence that had exposed in Nelson's documentary, the U.S. Justice Department has reopened the 1955 murder investigation of Emmitt Till. At the facilities in Rwanda and at Howard University in Washington, D.C., Stanley Nelson has taught people about film production and broadcast journalism. In addition, Nelson has received many fellowships from; American Film Institute, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the 2002 Mac Arthur Foundation Genius Fellowship. He was also received honor by winning the Educational Video Center's Excellence in Community Service Award in 2004. Stanley nelson inspired many people whom are interested in filmmaking. He accomplished many different great things in life. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.6.200 (talk) 22:43, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Excessive number of cites
He's done admittedly great work. But, citing nine sources in the Lead to say he is known for his film documentaries is really unnecessary. What's the point? This is not a popularity contest; having more cites for a non-contested fact doesn't make someone more notable.Parkwells (talk) 18:39, 19 March 2016 (UTC)