Marshall Curry

Marshall Curry
Curry at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Summit, New Jersey

Marshall Curry is a two-time Academy Award-nominated American documentary director, producer, cinematographer and editor. His films include Street Fight, Racing Dreams, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front and Point and Shoot.

Curry grew up in Summit, New Jersey, graduating from Summit High School in 1988. He attended Swarthmore College, graduating in 1992 having majored in comparative religion. He was also a Jane Addams Fellow at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy. Before becoming a filmmaker, Curry worked as senior producer at Icon Nicholson, a New York multimedia design firm.

Curry's first film, Street Fight, was released in 2005 and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006. That year he was named one of "25 New Faces in Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine and received the Donnet Award for Emerging Filmmaker by the International Documentary Association.

In 2009, his second film, Racing Dreams, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary. In 2011 If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the award for Best Documentary Editing. It went on to be nominated for Curry's second Academy Award in 2012. In 2014 Curry's film Point and Shoot premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.

Curry lives in Brooklyn, New York.