Nanette Burstein began her documentary career directing the award-winning film, On the Ropes, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, and received the DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. Shortly after, she co-directed the award-winning Robert Evans biography, The Kid Stays in the Picture. She produced and directed a five-part documentary series with Quincy Jones Say it Loud: Black Music in America and executive produced VH1’s Rock Doc NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell, which was nominated for two Emmy awards. Continuing her success in the documentary field, her film, American Teen, earned the Documentary Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival and The Price of Gold, an ESPN 30 for 30 on Tonya Harding, won an Emmy and Best Documentary at the Cinema Eye awards. In 2016, she directed the feature documentary for Showtime, Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee, about the eccentric millionaire who was implicated in a murder. In 2020, she directed the four-part series, Hillary, about Hillary Clinton that earned the Critics’ Choice Award and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Non-Fiction series. In 2022, she directed the three-part documentary series, Killer Sally, that aired on Netflix She recently completed the feature documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes for HBO which premiered at the Cannes film festival. She is currently making a feature documentary about Carl Sagan for National Geographic and a three-part series for Amazon on FTX.
Her commercial work spans the gamut of global brands like Verizon, Google, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Facebook, and JP Morgan Chase just to name a few. She’s won multiple awards for her ad work including two Emmy nominations and a Silver Lion at Cannes.
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