Kevin Macdonald (director)

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Kevin Macdonald
Macdonald at the Film Festival Cologne 2017
Born	Kevin Glyn Buchanan Macdonald (1967-10-28) 28 October 1967 (age 56) Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation(s)	Film director, producer, screenwriter
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Tatiana Lund ​ (m. 1999)​
Children	3
Relatives	Andrew Macdonald (brother) Emeric Pressburger (grandfather)

Kevin Glyn Buchanan Macdonald^[1] (born 28 October 1967) is a Scottish film director. His films include One Day in September (1999), a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the climbing documentary Touching the Void (2003), the drama The Last King of Scotland (2006), the political thriller State of Play (2009), the Bob Marley documentary Marley (2012), the post-apocalyptic drama How I Live Now (2013), the thriller Black Sea (2014), the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney (2018), and the legal drama film The Mauritanian (2021).