Robert Greenwald
{{Short description|American filmmaker}}
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Robert Greenwald (born August 28, 1945) is an American filmmaker, and the founder of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film and advocacy organization whose work is distributed for free in concert with nonprofit partners and movements in order to educate and mobilize for progressive causes. With Brave New Films, Greenwald has made investigative documentaries such as Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004), Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004), Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005), Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006), Rethink Afghanistan (2009), Koch Brothers Exposed (2012), and War on Whistleblowers (2013), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rynnRBQwrU Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote] (2020), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EGuGClzZCE Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote] (2022), [https://www.bravenewfilms.org/suppressed Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote] (2024), [https://deadline.com/video/beyond-bars-a-sons-fight-for-justice-trailer-brave-new-films-documentary-director-robert-greenwald-d-a-chesa-boudin-news/ Beyond Bars] (2023), as well as many short investigative films and internet videos.
Before launching Brave New Films in 2000, Greenwald produced and/or directed more than 65 TV movies, miniseries, and films as well as major theatrical releases.{{cite book |last= Roberts |first= Jerry|date= 5 June 2009|title=The Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors |publisher= Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0810861381 }} His early body of work includes Steal This Movie! (2000),{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/about/press/2002/greenwald.pdf|title=Robert Greenwald Receives Chuck Fries Producer of the Year Award|last=de Vila|first=Liza|date=12 November 2002|publisher=American Film Institute}} starring Vincent D'Onofrio as 60s radical Abbie Hoffman; Breaking Up (1997), starring Russell Crowe and Salma Hayek; A Woman of Independent Means (1995) with Sally Field; The Burning Bed (1984) with Farrah Fawcett; and Xanadu (1980), for which he won the inaugural Golden Raspberry award for Worst Director.
Greenwald has earned 25 Emmy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, the Peabody Award and the Robert Wood Johnson Award. He was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute.
Early life
Greenwald was born and raised in New York City. He is son of the prominent psychotherapist Harold Greenwald,{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/02/us/harold-greenwald-88-expert-on-psychology-of-prostitutes.html | title=Harold Greenwald, 88, Expert On Psychology of Prostitutes | work=The New York Times | date=2 April 1999 | access-date=16 February 2014 | author=Ravo, Nick}}{{cite web | url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/51/Robert-Greenwald.html | title=Robert Greenwald Biography (1943-) | publisher=Filmreference.com | access-date=2007-11-26}} and the nephew of choreographer Michael Kidd. He attended the city's High School of Performing Arts. Greenwald started his directing career in the theater, with The People Vs. Ranchman (1968),Broadway World. The People Vs. Ranchman. Retrieved August 20, 2013 A Long Time Coming and A Long Time Gone (1971),The Village Voice. "Richard Farina: A Long Time Coming and A Long Time Gone." Published November 11th, 1971. Retrieved August 20th 2013. Me and Bessie (1975) and I Have a Dream (1976), a play based on the life of Martin Luther King Jr., with Billy Dee Williams playing King.{{Citation | title = The Theater: A King in Darkness| newspaper = Time | date = 1976-10-04 | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918426,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110220103806/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918426,00.html | access-date = 2013-08-23 | url-status = dead| archive-date=2011-02-20}}
Television and feature film career
Greenwald moved to Los Angeles in 1972, where he continued working as a theater director at the Mark Taper Forum.{{cite book |last= Bruguiere|first= Ron|year= 2011|title= Collision: When Reality and Illusion Collide |publisher=AuthorHouse |isbn=978-1456725259 }} He later launched a career as a director for television, establishing first Moonlight Productions and then Robert Greenwald Productions (RGP), and began creating theatrical films, television movies, miniseries and documentaries with a distinct social and political sensibility. Moonlight Productions was responsible for 34 films, and RGP has brought more than 45 films to audiences worldwide. In 1977, Greenwald received his first of three Emmy Award nominations for producing the television movie 21 Hours at Munich{{cite web | title = 21 Hours at Munich The ABC Sunday Night Movie | publisher = Emmy.com | url = http://www.emmys.com/shows/21-hours-munich-abc-sunday-night-movie | access-date = 26 November 2013 }} about the massacre at the 1972 Olympics. His next Emmy nomination came in 1984 for directing The Burning Bed,{{cite web | title = The Burning Bed | publisher = Emmy.com | url = http://www.emmys.com/shows/burning-bed | access-date = 26 November 2013 }} one of the most-watched television movies of all time.{{cite book|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present|year=2003|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=0-345-45542-8|pages=805}} Based on a true story, The Burning Bed has been credited as "a turning point in the fight against domestic violence."{{cite news|last=Ahern |first=Louise Knott |date=October 21, 2009 |title='The Burning Bed': A turning point in fight against domestic violence |url=http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/99999999/NEWS01/909270304/-Burning-Bed-turning-point-fight-against-domestic-violence |work=Lansing State Journal}} Greenwald also directed theatrical films such as Xanadu (1980), Sweet Hearts Dance (1988), Breaking Up (1997), and Steal This Movie! (2000).{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/xanadu/ |title=Xanadu |access-date=2007-07-23 |work=Rottentomatoes.com |date=8 August 1980 }}
Xanadu received mostly negative reviews. The film underperformed at the box office, grossing only $23 million against a reported $20 million budget, a total that was insufficient to offset all related costs and return a profit. A double feature of Xanadu and another musical released at about the same time, Can't Stop the Music directed by Nancy Walker, inspired John J. B. Wilson to create the Golden Raspberry Awards (or "Razzies"), an annual event "dishonoring" what is considered the worst in cinema for a given year.{{cite news | last =Germain | first =David (Associated Press) | title =25 Years of Razzing Hollywood's Stinkers | work =South Florida Sun-Sentinel | page =7D |publisher =Sun-Sentinel Company | date =February 26, 2005 }} Xanadu won the first Razzie for Worst Director and was nominated for six other awards.
Documentary work
{{Main|Brave New Films}}
Greenwald turned to documentary filmmaking in 2002,[http://www.indiepixfilms.com/creator/336 "Robert Greenwald Biography"] Indiegogo.com. Retrieved Oct 3, 2013. executive-producing three political documentaries known as "The Un Trilogy": Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2002);NED MARTEL. "[https://movies.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/movies/01UNCO.html?_r=1 Attempts to Sort Out and Make Sense of History]." New York Times. Published October 1, 2004. Retrieved August 22, 2013. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War (2003),John Anderson. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215448/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2004-09-24/entertainment/0409221414_1_ex-cia-weapons-inspector-george-tenet Damning Portrait On War In Iraq]. Newsday. Published, September 24, 2004. Retrieved August 22, 2013. which Greenwald also directed; and Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties.
At Brave New Films, Greenwald has produced and directed numerous feature-length documentaries, along with many short films and videos.{{cite web|url=http://www.bravenewfilms.org/robert_greenwald|title=Robert Greenwald}} In 2013, Greenwald released War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State and a documentary about the U.S. government's drone program, Unmanned: America's Drone Wars.[http://www.warcosts.com/sign_up Sign up to stream Unmanned: America's Drone War] His full-length feature documentary, Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA (2015), illustrates the connection between gun industry profits and gun deaths in America.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/making-a-killing-guns-greed-919207|title='Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA': Film Review|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=12 August 2016|language=en|access-date=2019-10-08}}
Following the release of 16 Women and Donald Trump, which featured women who publicly accused President Trump of sexual misconduct, Greenwald hosted three of the accusers at a December, 2017 press conference in New York.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-accusers-press-conference-sexual-misconduct-post-megyn-kelly-interview/|title=Female accusers of Trump call for Congressional investigation into misconduct|website=www.cbsnews.com|date=11 December 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-08}} In 2018, Greenwald created a short film to thank three Black women targeted by Donald Trump entitled, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlrYnP7Zbh8 Thanks].{{Cite web|last=Stevens|first=Heidi|title=Thank a black female journalist for standing strong in the face of Trump's scorn|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-life-stevens-friday-thank-a-black-journalist-1116-story.html|access-date=2020-11-25|website=chicagotribune.com|date=16 November 2018 }}
In 2019, Greenwald released [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03DGjnIkTdI Suppressed: The Fight to Vote] about voter suppression in the 2018 Georgia election, in which Democrat Stacey Abrams narrowly lost to Republican Brian Kemp in the race for governor.{{Cite web|date=2019-11-19|title=St. Louis Community Organizers Begin Push To Encourage Black Voter Turnout In 2020|url=https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2019-11-19/st-louis-community-organizers-begin-push-to-encourage-black-voter-turnout-in-2020|access-date=2020-11-25|website=St. Louis Public Radio|language=en}} Variety described the film as "scary and galvanizing" and said it demonstrated that "what happened in Georgia has implications that extend far beyond that race."{{Cite web|last=Gleiberman|first=Owen|date=2020-01-19|title='Suppressed: The Fight to Vote': Film Review|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/suppressed-the-fight-to-vote-review-robert-greenwald-stacey-abrams-2-1203472097/|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Variety|language=en-US}} The film was updated and released in April 2022 to expose voter suppression laws passed in 19 states across the United States. The 2022 film, entitled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EGuGClzZCE Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote] features additional stories from voters in Florida, Arizona, and Texas. The updated version 2024 version of [https://www.bravenewfilms.org/suppressed Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote] highlights personal stories from Georgia voters during the controversial gubernatorial race between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp.
As coronavirus raged throughout the US in the summer of 2020, Greenwald's short film, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNtONElNblk Maddie’s Grandparents: A Preventable COVID Tragedy], about a Florida teenager who turned her grief at losing both her grandparents to COVID-19 into activism,{{Cite web|date=2020-10-17|title=Tallahassee family featured in newest documentary on losing loved ones to COVID-19|url=https://www.wtxl.com/news/tallahassee-family-featured-in-newest-documentary-on-losing-loved-ones-to-covid-19|access-date=2020-11-25|website=WTXL|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Florida teenager speaks out after the preventable death of her grandparents|url=https://www.msnbc.com/yasmin-vossoughian/watch/new-film-sheds-light-on-a-family-s-preventable-covid-loss-93604421777|access-date=2020-11-25|website=MSNBC.com|language=en}} made national headlines, as did her response to President Trump telling Americans not to let COVID “dominate” their lives.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/4WIhzVA0t0k Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20210519174213/https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4WIhzVA0t0k Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WIhzVA0t0k| title = The Kaji Family Speak Out on Donald Trump's COVID-19 Policy on CNN • BRAVE NEW FILMS (BNF) | website=YouTube| date = 6 October 2020 }}{{cbignore}} Greenwald also joined forces with American rock musician Tom Morello for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djJ8SursQfI No Justice No Peace], a short video about police violence that “spotlights the contrast between the racial injustice in the U.S. and the Trump administration's position on it”{{Cite web|title=Robert Greenwald - wikipedia|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/12P1hwFWIp0fwANu0JiFT2PTQN3w3lJpiJZSqlskpP1U/edit?usp=embed_facebook|access-date=2020-11-23|website=Google Docs|language=en}} in honor of George Floyd.{{Cite web|title=Tom Morello Soundtracked Short Film In Honor Of George Floyd's Birthday|url=https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-10-15-tom-morello-soundtracked-short-film-in-honor-of-george-floyds-birthday/|access-date=2020-11-25|website=iHeartRadio|language=en}}
In 2023, Greenwald Brave New Films released [https://www.bravenewfilms.org/beyondbars Beyond Bars], an intimate look into the life of former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. He has continued producing short films like [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STTDwCQ6Xt8 E. Jean Carroll V. Donald J. Trump] (2024) available for free to the public.
Distribution and impact
Greenwald has applied the principles of guerrilla filmmaking at Brave New Films, using small budgets and short shooting schedules to produce political documentaries and then distributing them on DVDs and the Internet in affiliation with advocacy groups such as MoveOn.org.{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E3D6143BF932A25754C0A9629C8B63 | title= How to Make a Guerrilla Documentary | author=Robert S. Boynton | work=The New York Times | date=2004-07-11 | access-date=2007-11-26}} Brave New Film's methods are "rewriting the book on how movies are made and distributed."{{cite web|last=Barkin |first=Joel |title=Filmmaker Robert Greenwald |url=http://www.progressivestates.org/people/346/filmmaker-robert-greenwald |publisher=Progressive States Network}} Greenwald's innovative model is said to be "working magnificently":{{cite web|title=Robert Greenwald Tackles Wal-Mart: Just How Have Americans Paid for Those Low Prices? |url=http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/10/int05042.html |publisher=Buzzflash |date=October 27, 2005}} "Millions of viewers have seen BNF films via grassroots 'house parties' and independent online DVD sales",{{cite web|title=Arena Profile: Robert Greenwald |url=http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/robert_greenwald.html |publisher=Politico}} as well as in more traditional theater screenings and online.
As a pioneer in alternative methods for effective progressive political campaigns,{{cite web | last = Yerman | first = Marcia G. | title = The Koch Brothers Exposed' -- A Conversation With Robert Greenwald| publisher = Huffington Post| date = 27 June 2012 | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcia-g-yerman/the-koch-brothers-exposed_b_1625967.html| access-date = 21 November 2013}}{{cite web | last = Thompson | first = Rustin | title = Robert Greenwald | publisher = Moviemaker| date = 23 September 2004 | url = http://www.moviemaker.com/articles-directing/robert-greenwald-2919/| access-date = 21 November 2013}}{{cite web | last = Hazen | first = Don | title = 50 Million Videos Viewed: A Huge Marker for Brave New Films and Robert Greenwald | publisher = Alternet| date = 12 September 2010 | url = http://www.alternet.org/story/148154/50_million_videos_viewed%3A_a_huge_marker_for_brave_new_films_and_robert_greenwald| access-date = 21 November 2013}}{{cite web | last = Tryon | first = Chuck | title = Digital distribution, participatory culture, and the transmedia documentary | publisher = Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media | url = http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc53.2011/TryonWebDoc/| access-date = 21 November 2013}}{{cite web | title = The ACLU and Robert Greenwald to Tell the Stories Behind the Headlines in New 10-Part Series: The ACLU Freedom Files | date = 16 August 2005 | url = https://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-and-robert-greenwald-tell-stories-behind-headlines-new-10-part-series-aclu-fr | access-date = 21 November 2013 }} Greenwald has eschewed traditional distribution models of studio and network releases. He was among the first to post political online shorts and viral videos on YouTube and elsewhere on the internet, as well as releasing full-length documentaries online in a series of “real time” chapters.{{cite web | last = Owens| first =Simon| title = How Greenwald's Brave New Films Spreads Its Political Message Online| publisher = PBS| date= 16 September 2008 |url = https://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/09/how-greenwalds-brave-new-films-spreads-its-political-message-online260/| access-date = 21 November 2013}} Greenwald's group takes full advantage of a variety of media outlets, such as Facebook and Twitter, and harnesses new distribution channels as soon as they emerge.{{cite web | title =Doc U Seminar: An Evening With Robert Greenwald (at his place!)| publisher = Documentary.org| date= 14 May 2009 |url = http://www.documentary.org/content/doc-u-seminar-evening-robert-greenwald-his-place | access-date = 21 November 2013}} A 2019 profile described the approach as a "marketing alchemy of feeds, hashtags, likes, favorites, hearts, @s, memes, soundbites and video clips, all edited, spliced and calibrated to grab attention in a hyperspeed world."{{Cite web|date=2019-09-21|title=New voting rights documentary targets #hashtag, Facebook audiences ahead of 2020 election|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-09-20/new-voter-suppression-documentary-targets-hashtag-facebook-audiences|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}
This approach has "inspired hundreds of thousands of people to take action and forced pressing issues into the mainstream media."{{cite web|title=Filmmaker, Activist Robert Greenwald '66 to Receive Horace Mann Award |date=9 October 2020 |url=http://antiochcollege.org/news/archive/filmmaker_activist_greenwald_to_receive_horace_mann_award.html |publisher=Antioch College}} He has been called "one of the most prominent and influential voices in new media."{{cite news|title=Robert Greenwald to GMDers: Hold Welch to Pledge on War Funding |url=http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/diary/4559/robert-greenwald-to-gmders-hold-to-welch-to-pledge-on-war-funding |work=Green Mountain Daily |date=June 15, 2009}} According to a Brave New Films website, {{as of|2013|lc=y}} its documentaries "have been streamed across all 7 continents and have been viewed over 70 million times."{{cite web | title = Robert Greenwald | publisher = Brave New Foundation | url =http://www.waronwhistleblowers.com/robert_greenwald | access-date = 31 Aug 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130906081000/http://www.waronwhistleblowers.com/robert_greenwald | archive-date =6 September 2013 }}
Politics
Various sources have described Greenwald's political activism as left-wing.{{cite news|title=Robert Greenwald|url=http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/1375|newspaper=Charlie Rose}}{{cite news|last=Harris|first=Paul|title=Koch brothers under attack by leftwing film-maker|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/15/koch-brothers-leftwing-film-maker?commentpage=1#comment-10755973|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=2011-05-15}}{{cite web|title=Robert Greenwald|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800042609|publisher=Yahoo movies}}{{cite web|last=Waxman|first=Sharon|url=http://bravenewfilms.org/press/?p=1068|title = Robert Greenwald Challenges JFK Actors Kinnear, Holmes to Vet Script|publisher=Brave New Films}}{{cite web|title = GRITtv with Laura Flanders is proud to feature Brave New Films content. |last=Flanders|first=Laura|url=http://grittv.org/about/links/bravenewfilms|publisher=GRITtv}}
Greenwald has lectured at Harvard University for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and speaks frequently across the country about his work.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald "Robert Greenwald Bio"] Accessed Oct 4, 2013 He addressed the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense regarding war profiteering on May 10, 2007.{{cite web | title = Robert Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill Testifying to Congress Now | publisher = Daily Kos | date = 10 May 2007 | url = http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/05/10/333204/-Robert-Greenwald-and-Jeremy-Scahill-Testifying-to-Congress-Now }} In 2013, Greenwald went to Capitol Hill once again, to discuss weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles with lawmakers. At a Congressional briefing, Greenwald testified with the Rafiq Rehman family, the first Pakistani drone strike survivors to appear before Congress.{{cite web | last =McCauley | first = Lauren | title = Congressional No-Show at 'Heart-Breaking' Drone Survivor Hearing | publisher =Common Dreams | date = 29 October 2013 | url = https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/29-3 }} Since May 2005, Greenwald has been a contributing blogger to The Huffington Post.{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald | title=Robert Greenwald | work=The Huffington Post | access-date=2007-11-26}}
Selected filmography
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=Feature-length documentaries=
- Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004) (director/producer)
- Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004) (director/producer)
- Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) (director/producer)
- Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006) (director/producer)
- Rethink Afghanistan (2009) (director)
- Koch Brothers Exposed (2012) (director/producer);re-cut in 2014
- War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013) (director/producer)
- Unmanned: America's Drone Wars (2013) (director/producer)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqfXv6-yF-g Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA] (2015) (director/producer)
- [https://www.bravenewfilms.org/suppressed Suppressed: The Fight to Vote] (2019) (director/producer)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rynnRBQwrU Suppressed: 2020 The Fight to Vote] (2019) (director/producer)
- [https://www.bravenewfilms.org/beyondbars Beyond Bars] (2023)
- [https://www.bravenewfilms.org/suppressed Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote] (2024)
=Features and television movies=
- 21 Hours at Munich (1976) (producer)
- Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers (1979) (director)
- Xanadu (1980) (director)
- The Burning Bed (1984) (director)
- Shattered Spirits (1986) (director)
- Sweet Hearts Dance (1988) (director)
- She Says She's Innocent, aka Violation of Trust (executive producer)
- Hear No Evil (1993) (director/producer)
- Breaking Up (1997) (director/producer)
- Steal This Movie! (2000) (director/producer)
- The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003) (producer)
=Documentary shorts=
- Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2002) (executive producer)
- Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties (2004) (executive producer)
- The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress (2006) (producer)
- The REAL Rudy (2007) (director)
- Fox Attacks: Black America (2007) (director/producer)
- Fox Attacks: Obama (2007) (director/producer)
- Fox Attacks: Iran (2007) (director/producer)
- Fox Attacks: Decency (2007) (director)
- Fox Attacks: The Environment (2007) (director)
- The Real McCain (2007) (director/producer)
- Sick for Profit (2009) (director)
- [https://www.bravenewfilms.org/16women 16 Women and Donald Trump] (2017) (director/producer)
- [https://www.bravenewfilms.org/healingtrauma_homeboys Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prisons] (2018) (director/producer)
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Awards and honors
Greenwald's work has earned 25 Emmy Award nominations,{{cite web|url=https://www.caala.org/index.cfm?pg=IDD2006|title=58th Annual Installation & Awards Dinner|publisher=Consumer Attorney Association of Los Angeles|access-date=25 November 2013}} two Golden Globe nominations, the Peabody Award and the Robert Wood Johnson Award. He was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute. He has been honored for his investigative film work by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California;{{cite web|url=http://www.aclusocal.org/events/50th-annual-aclusc-garden-party/|title=Wine and Dine with Whistleblowers|date=29 September 2013|publisher=ACLU of Southern California}} the Liberty Hill Foundation;{{cite web|url=http://www.smmirror.com/articles/news/Robert-Greenwald-To-Be-Honored-by-Liberty-Hill/19064|title=Robert Greenwald To Be Honored by Liberty Hill|date=27 April 2005 }} the Los Angeles chapter of the National Lawyers Guild;{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/robert_greenwald.html|title=Arena Profile: Robert Greenwald|publisher=Politico|access-date=26 November 2013}} Physicians for Social Responsibility; Consumer Attorney's Association of Los Angeles; Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and the Office of the Americas.
Greenwald's films have garnered the following nominations and awards:
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- 25 Emmy Award nominations
- 4 Cable ACE Award nominations
- 2 Golden Globe nominations
- 2 DGA Nominations (1978 and 1985)
- 8 Awards of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board.
- Directors Guild of America Award, for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials for The Burning Bed, 1984.
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Excellence in Health and Medical Programming, for Sharing the Secret, 2000.{{cite web|title=Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Award Winner Now Available; 'Behind Sharing the Secret' Distributed Throughout the United States |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Peabody%2FRobert+Wood+Johnson+Award+Winner+Now+Available%3B+'Behind...-a080015699}}
- The Peabody Award, for Sharing the Secret, 2000.{{cite web |url=http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1263 |title=Sharing the Secret |access-date=2011-01-07 |publisher=University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication |work=GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY AWARDS}}
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Prism Commendation for Blonde, 2002.
- Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute, 2002.{{cite web|title=Awards |url=http://www.rgpinc.com/awards.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310133922/http://www.rgpinc.com/awards.php |archive-date=March 10, 2012}}
- Literacy in Media Award, for The Book of Ruth, 2004.
- Laurel Award, for Outfoxed, 2008.
- Telly Award, (Bronze), for This Brave Nation, 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.tellyawards.com/winners/list/?l=&pageNum_winners=23&totalRows_winners=6396&event=10&category=|title=Telly Awards|website=www.tellyawards.com}}
- Media for a Just Society, Finalist for Law and Disorder, 2013.{{cite web|url=http://nccdglobal.org/news/the-winners-of-the-20th-annual-media-for-a-just-society-awards|title=The Winners of the 20th Annual Media for a Just Society Awards - National Council on Crime & Delinquency|website=nccdglobal.org}}
Robert Greenwald has been the recipient of the following awards for his activism:
- California Nurses Association, "Public Voice for Political Activism."
- Maggie Award from Planned Parenthood Federation.
- Office of the Americas,{{cite web|url=http://www.bravenewfilms.org/board|title=Meet Our Board}}
- The Christopher Award, 1981 (for media that “affirm the highest values of the human spirit")
- ACLU of Southern California, Garden Party Award, 2003 and 2013.
- Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles, Peacemaker Award, 2003{{cite web | title = Speakers: Robert Greenwald | publisher = The Common Good | url = http://thecommongood.net/2012/03/robert-greenwald/ | access-date = 26 November 2013 }}
- The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild Honors Robert Greenwald as "A Producer and Director who uses his talent and artistry to promote better understanding between people and advance the cause of peace, justice and freedom." - June 8, 2003;
- Rage for Justice, Citizen Activist of the Year, 2004.{{cite web | title = Rage for Justics Awards | publisher = Consumer Watchdog | url =http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/rage-justice-awards | access-date = 26 November 2013 }}
- Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)’s City of Justice Award 2005.
- Liberty Hill Foundation's Upton Sinclair Award, 2006.
- Norman Felton and Denise Aubuchon Humanitarian Award, 2007{{cite web | title = Past Death Penalty Focus Honorees| publisher = Death Penalty Focus | url = http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=649 | access-date = 26 November 2013 }}
- Courage in Media (California) Award, 2008 and 2010{{cite news | last = Block | first =Wendy | title =Courage Awards: What You Missed | newspaper = LA Progressive | date = 29 July 2010 | url =http://www.laprogressive.com/courage-awards-missed/ }}
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External links
- [https://www.bravenewfilms.org/about Robert Greenwald official website]
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- [http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/8/sick_for_profit_robert_greenwald_documentary Sick for Profit] - video report by Democracy Now!
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