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Relatives | Chapman Way (brother) Brocker Way (brother) |
Maclain Way is an American documentary film director and producer. [1] [2] He is best known for producing the Netflix documentary series Untold , directing Wild Wild Country and The Battered Bastards of Baseball . [3] [4]
Maclain received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for Wild Wild Country in 2018. [5]
Maclain was born and raised in Ventura County, California. He attended UCLA, where he studied history and documentary film. [6] He is a grandson of actor Bing Russell and nephew of actor Kurt Russell. [7]
Maclain directed and produced his debut documentary, The Battered Bastards of Baseball , along with his brother Chapman Way. The film told the story of the Portland Mavericks and premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired and later released by Netflix as one of their first original documentary films. [8] [9] In 2018, he directed a documentary series, Wild Wild Country , along with Chapman Way for Netflix about the controversial guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho). [10] In 2021, he produced the Netflix documentary series "Untold" and directed Untold: Crimes and Penalties and Untold: Breaking Point , along with Chapman Way. [11]
Year | Title | Contribution | Note |
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2022 | Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist | Executive Producer | Documentary |
2022 | Untold: The Rise and Fall of And1 | Executive Producer | Documentary |
2022 | Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul | Executive Producer | Documentary |
2022 | Untold: Race of the Century | Director and producer | Documentary |
2021 | Untold: Crimes & Penalties | Director and producer | Documentary |
2021 | Untold: Caitlyn Jenner | Executive Producer | Documentary |
2021 | Untold: Deal with the Devil | Executive Producer | Documentary |
2021 | Untold: Breaking Point | Director and producer | Documentary |
2021 | Untold: Malice at the Palace | Executive Producer | Documentary |
2018 | Wild Wild Country | Director, sound mixer and producer | Documentary series |
2016 | The New Yorker Presents | Director and producer | 1 episode |
2014 | The Battered Bastards of Baseball | Director and producer | Documentary |
Year | Result | Award | Category | Work | Ref. |
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2018 | Won | International Documentary Association | Best Limited Series | Wild Wild Country | [12] |
Won | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series | [13] | ||
Nominated | Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program | ||||
2019 | Nominated | Cinema Eye Honors | Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Series for Broadcast | [14] | |
2021 | Nominated | International Documentary Association | Best Episodic Series | Untold | [15] |
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