Steven Bognar

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{{Autobiography|date=December 2019}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1963}}

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| nationality = American

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| occupation = Filmmaker, director

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| notable_works = American Factory

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Steven Bognar (born 1963)[https://www.indiewire.com/2006/01/park-city-06-steven-bognar-julia-reichert-you-have-to-know-why-you-want-to-make-films-the-77439/ PARK CITY ’06: Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert: “…You have to know WHY you want to make films"], IndieWire, Jan 9, 2006 is an American film director.

An Oscar-winning and award-winning documentary filmmaker,{{cite web |last=Kaszás |first=Fanni |title=Director with Hungarian Roots Snags Academy Award Nomination for 'American Factory' |url=https://hungarytoday.hu/director-with-hungarian-roots-snags-academy-award-nomination-for-american-factory/ |website=Hungary Today |access-date=2022-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129191150/https://hungarytoday.hu/director-with-hungarian-roots-snags-academy-award-nomination-for-american-factory/ |archive-date=2021-01-29 |language=en |date=2020-01-14 |url-status=live}} his films have been screened at SXSW, Sundance, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091840/awards|title=Steven Bognar|website=IMDb|access-date=2019-12-17}}{{Cite web|url=https://creative-capital.org/artists/steven-bognar/|title=Steven Bognar|website=Creative Capital|language=en|access-date=2019-12-17}} Bognar has also worked as an instructor of media arts, teaching at public schools across his home state of Ohio, as well as at Antioch College.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/21/20812012/american-factory-interview-netflix-reichert-bognar|title=Work is going global. American Factory's directors explain how they captured its challenges.|last=Wilkinson|first=Alissa|date=2019-08-21|website=Vox|language=en|access-date=2019-12-17}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lioninthehouse/02_02_a.htm|title=Independent Lens . A LION IN THE HOUSE . Filmmaker Bios {{!}} PBS|website=www.pbs.org|access-date=2019-12-17}} He was a frequent collaborator of filmmaker Julia Reichert.