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Robin Lehman is an American documentary filmmaker best known for his short films Don't and The End of the Game, which received consecutive Academy Awards for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Lehman originally studied painting and worked in graphic art before moving to Paris to study musical composition, eventually transitioning to documentary film. His subjects ranged from African wildlife to monarch butterflies to sea creatures to hot glass to strange pets to “what's good about growing old?” His films have won over 150 major awards worldwide at many of the major film festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Chicago, Melbourne, San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.
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1985
Ethiopia
Movie Editor
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1983
Metropolitan Cats
Movie Cinematography
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1981
Forever Young
Movie Director
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1981
The Little Players
Movie Director
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1978
Manimals
Movie Director
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1977
The Black Pearl
Movie Director of Photography
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1976
The End of the Game
Movie Director
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1976
Nightlife
Movie Writer
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1975
Tommy
Movie Director of Photography
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1975
Don't
Movie Director
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1975
SEE
Movie Director
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1974
Hotspot
Movie Cinematography
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1974
Sea Creatures
Movie Director
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1974
Experimental
Movie Producer
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1973
Wings and Things
Movie Director
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1973
Undercurrents
Movie Cinematography
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1973
Colter's Hell
Movie Producer
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1972
Flyaway
Movie Producer