Quincy is a 2018 American documentary film about the life of American record producer, composer, arranger, record executive, conductor, trumpeter, film and television producer, and bandleader Quincy Jones. The film was co-written and co-directed by Alan Hicks and Rashida Jones and produced by Paula DuPré Pesmen. The film was released by Netflix on September 21, 2018.
The film won a Grammy Award for Best Music Film at the 2019 Grammy Awards.
Production
The documentary is co-directed by Jones' daughter Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks. It was produced by Paula DuPré Pesmen, and executive produced by Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh for TriBeCa Productions and Adam Fell for Quincy Jones Productions. On August 1, 2018, it was announced that Netflix had acquired the documentary film about Quincy Jones.
Epilogue The film epilogue details his career as follows: "Over 2,900 songs recorded; over 300 albums recorded; 51 film and television scores; over 1,000 original compositions; 79 Grammy nominations; 28 Grammy awards; 1 of 18 EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony); Thriller the best selling album of all time; We Are the World the best selling single of all time; $63 million raised for famine relief in Africa; and 7 children."
Release The film had a special screening on September 9, 2018, at the Toronto International Film Festival, at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, Canada.
Quincy was released on September 21, 2018, on Netflix.
Reception Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 60 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
Awards Year Award Result 2018 AAFCA's Top Ten List (African-American Film Critics Association) 2018Critics Choice Documentary Award for Best Music Documentary 2019 Grammy Award for Best Music Film (61st Annual Grammy Awards) 2020 Black Reel Award for Outstanding Documentary (Black Reel Awards of 2020)
See also List of black films of the 2010s
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