Pierre Schoendoerffer was a French film director, screenwriter, writer, war reporter and war cameraman, and a veteran of the First Indochina War, who lived from 5 May 1928 to 14 March 2012. In 1967 he won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon, a film that followed a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam during 1966. He served as president of the Academie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and 2007.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer (French: Pierre Schœndœrffer, pronounced [pjɛʁ ʃœ̃dœʁfɛʁ]; 5 May 1928-14 March 2012) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician.
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5 May 1928
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In 1967, he was the winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon.
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