Chuck Workman is a documentary filmmaker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His 1986 film Precious Images won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film;"Precious Images" winning the Oscar® for Live Action Short his work has also been nominated for Emmy Awards, Sundance Film Festival awards, and the Taos Talking Film Festival awards.
Workman frequently creates the montages seen on the televised Academy Awards shows, including the in memoriam segment. He is sometimes credited as Carl Workman. He is the father of filmmaker Jeremy Workman.
Selected filmography 1984: The Director and the Image 1984: The Director and the Actor 1986: Precious Images (2009 National Film Registry inductee) 1986: Stoogemania 1987: The Best Show in Town 1987: Words 1989: 50 Years of Bugs Bunny in 3½ Minutes 1994: 100 Years at the Movies 1999: The Source 2003: A House on a Hill 2010: VisionariesVisionaries|2010 Tribeca Festival|Tribeca 2013: What Is Cinema? 2014: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
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Chuck Workman at The Film-Makers' Cooperative King of Condensed Films: Meet Chuck Workman, The Oscars' Montage Master - NPR article