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Kevin Macdonald - news / articles


  • Macdonald refused to capture own emotional story for Life In A Day - 12 June 2011
    -Moviemaker Kevin Macdonald refused to record his own personal footage for his innovative film project Life In A Day - because he wasn't "brave enough" to put an emotional family tragedy on tape.-The State of Play director teamed up with Sir Ridley Scott to create the ne


  • Macdonald making YouTube movie - 8 July 2010
    -Filmmakers Kevin Macdonald and Sir Ridley Scott are teaming up to make a movie using footage shot by YouTube.com users.- -The Last King of Scotland director Macdonald has asked film fans to record their daily lives on 24 July (10) and upload the scenes to the clip-shari


  • Macdonald happy for Pitt to quit - 21 March 2009
    -Director Kevin Macdonald is glad Brad Pitt pulled out of upcoming movie State Of Play - because the Hollywood star is too good-looking to play the role.- -Pitt was originally due to star in the big-screen thriller as a put-upon journalist - but the actor quit during pre

Kevin Macdonald - what members say


  • Touching The Void
  • Touching The Void review by Welshwaspy from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Compelling documentary 3 March 2005
    ...e Peruvian Andes and subsequent events after their climb goes horribly wrong. Kevin Macdonald's film is simply marvellous, both in terms of the way he recreates the climb wi...   Read customer review
  • The Last King Of Scotland
  • The Last King Of Scotland review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent
    Rated - 4.0 stars Last King of Scotland 18 March 2007
    ...al of Amin right and half the battle is won. Amazingly Forest Whittaker was not Kevin Macdonald’s initial choice for the role but he channels Amin brilliantly. The single-mind...   Read customer review
  • Life In A Day
  • Life In A Day review by Turino from
    Rated - 4.5 stars The meaning of life 12 June 2011
    ...ique, ambitious experiment. And boy does it work! A call went out from director Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland) and executive producer Ridley Sc...   Read customer review

Kevin Macdonald - filmography


  • Marley - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Bob Marley,  Rita Marley,  Ziggy Marley
    Director: Kevin Macdonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Feature documentary chronicling the life and music of reggae star Bob Marley. The film follows him from his Jamaica childhood to his domination of the world stage and his untimely death from cancer in 1981 at the age of 36. The film includes interviews with the people closest to him including his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 75% from 916 members
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  • Marley on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Bob Marley,  Rita Marley,  Ziggy Marley
    Director: Kevin Macdonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Feature documentary chronicling the life and music of reggae star Bob Marley. The film follows him from his Jamaica childhood to his domination of the world stage and his untimely death from cancer in 1981 at the age of 36. The film includes interviews with the people closest to him including his ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,298 member
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  • Life In A Day on DVD (2011)
    Director: Kevin Macdonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonald's Life In A Day is an idea borne out of a unique partnership between Ridley Scott's Scott Free UK and YouTube. The film is a user-generated feature-length documentary, shot on a single day - July 24, 2010 - that enlisted the global community to capture a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,826 members
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  • State Of Play - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Russell Crowe,  Ben Affleck,  Rob Benedict
    Director: Kevin Macdonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Political thriller based on the acclaimed 2003 BBC mini-series. With the action transposed from Westminster to Washington, the film follows the investigations of journalist Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe) as he probes into the suspicious death of the mistress and former research assistant of ambitious ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 9,947 members
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  • State of Play on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Rachel McAdams,  Ben Affleck,  Russell Crowe
    Director: Kevin Macdonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Oscar winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller about a rising congressman and an investigative journalist embroiled in an case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders. Crowe plays D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey, whose street smarts lead him to untangle a mystery of murder ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 47,800 members
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  • Touching The Void on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Richard Hawkins,  Nicholas Aaron,  Simon Yates
    Director: Kevin Macdonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Joe Simpson and Simon Yates set out to climb the west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. It was 1985 and the men were young, fit, skilled climbers. The west face, remote and treacherous, had not been climbed before. Following a successful three-and-a-half-day ascent, disaster struck. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 32,937 members
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  • One Day In September on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Michael Douglas
    Director: Kevin Macdonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Kevin MacDonald directs this Oscar-winning documentary, examining the events of the 1972 Munich Olympics when the extreme Palestinian group Black September held eleven Israeli athletes hostage. Archive material and music mingles with interview footage of those involved at the time, including the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,734 members
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Kevin Macdonald facts

5 most recent films

How I Live Now - 3 stars
Marley - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Marley - 4.0 stars
Life In A Day - 3.5 stars
The Eagle - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Last King Of Scotland - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Touching The Void - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Last King Of Scotland - 4.0 stars
Marley - 4.0 stars
Marley - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

How I Live Now - 3 stars
Two Brothers - 2.5 stars
The Eagle - 3.0 stars
The Eagle - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Life In A Day - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Katy Mixon - 2 times - show films
Channing Tatum - 2 times - show films
Gillian Anderson - 2 times - show films
Jason Bateman - 2 times - show films
Denis O'Hare - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Richard Bell - 1 times - show films