Justin Wilkes is a film and television producer. Best known for producing documentary ''

What Happened, Miss Simone? ''What Happened, Miss Simone?'' is a 2015 American biographical documentary film about Nina Simone directed by Liz Garbus. The film opened the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The screening was followed by a tribute performance by John Legend. The ...

'' that earned him

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Academy Honorary Award, Special Awards to ''Kukan'' and ''Target for Tonight''. The ...

nomination at

88th Academy Awards The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2015 and took place on February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, 5:30 p.m. PST. D ...

with co-producer Amy Hobby and director

Liz Garbus Elizabeth Freya Garbus (born April 11, 1970) is an American documentary film director and producer. Notable documentaries Garbus has made are '' The Farm: Angola, USA,'' '' Ghosts of Abu Ghraib,'' '' Bobby Fischer Against the World,'' '' Love, Ma ...

. Wilkes also produced the

Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Foster Peabody, George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and in ...

-winning documentary film Judy Blume Forever, that premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2023.https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/judy-blume-forever/

Filmography

* '' Fade to Black'' * '' Iconoclasts'' * '' Oprah's Master Class'' * '' Under African Skies '' * '' Jay Z, Made in America'' * ''

'' * ''

Park Bench with Steve Buscemi ''Park Bench with Steve Buscemi'' was an American web series talk show created, directed and hosted by actor Steve Buscemi, distributed by digital network AOL. The series premiered on May 15, 2014. In each episode, Buscemi interviews a famous frie ...

'' * '' America Divided'' * '' Stan Against Evil'' * ''

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* '' Rebuilding Paradise'' * '' Julia'' * '' Light & Magic'' * '' We Feed People'' * '' Judy Blume Forever'' * '' The Super Models'' * '' The Truth About Jim'' * '' Music by John Williams'' * '' I Am Not a Monster: The Lois Riess Murders''

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