Thom Zimny is an American film director and editor, most noted for his work on both music videos and long-form concert films with American rock singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen. [1]
Zimny began his career as an editor with credits on independent films and music videos, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming at the 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 2001 for his work on the Springsteen concert special Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Live in New York City . [2] He was also an editor on the drama television series The Wire . [1]
In 2005 he released Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to Run , his first credit as a director, which won the Grammy Award for Best Music Film at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007. [3]
He directed the Netflix film of the Springsteen on Broadway concert residency, [4] for which he won the Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special at the 71st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in 2019. [5]
The 2019 film Western Stars , which Zimny co-directed with Springsteen as the musician's own directorial debut, premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. [6]
In 2020 he directed the documentary film Letter to You . [7]
He also directed the Elvis Presley documentary film Elvis Presley: The Searcher , [8] the Willie Nelson documentary series Willie Nelson and Family, [9] and the 2023 Sylvester Stallone documentary film Sly . [10]
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