Legendary Sag Harbor filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker has been named to receive a Lifetime Achievement Oscar. Pennebaker will be the first documentarian to awarded an honorary Oscar.
His movies include
- The Energy War (1978)
- Town Bloody Hall (1979)
- DeLorean (1981) with John DeLorean
- Jimi Plays Monterey (1986) with Jimi Hendrix
- 101 (1989) with Depeche Mode
- The War Room (1993)
- Woodstock Diary (1994)
- Keine Zeit (1996) with German artist Marius Müller-Westernhagen
- Victoria Williams – Happy Come Home (1997) with singer Victoria Williams
- Moon Over Broadway (1997)
- Bessie (1998)
- Down from the Mountain (2000)
- Startup.com (2001)
- Elaine Stritch: At Liberty (2004) Emmy-winning portrait of Elaine Stritch
- Only the Strong Survive (2003)
- Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) as executive producer
- Rock N Roll Music – a film involving Chuck Berry
- 65 Revisited (2007) – a one-hour documentary accompanying the new DVD release of Dont Look Back
- Kings of Pastry (2009)
