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Born in Los Angeles, CA. Documentary filmmaker whose first film, SCARED STRAIGHT! (1978), won an Academy Award®. Shapiro has produced twelve series, five television movies, and more than fifty primetime reality specials. Among the 150 awards he has received are an Academy Award, 15 Emmy® Awards, the Peabody, three Humanitas Prizes, two Silver Gavel Awards from the American Bar Association, and the George Polk Journalism Award from Long Island University. In 1995, Shapiro was given an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts.
Other notable credits include:
· "Big Brother," the second season, hosted by Julie Chen. Thirty-two episode summer reality series for the CBS Television Network (2001);
· "Rescue 911," hosted by William Shatner, aired for seven seasons on CBS (1989-1996). It holds the unique distinction of saving more than 350 lives based on what viewers learned from watching the program. "Rescue" received over two dozen awards from every major emergency medical association in America.
· "Scared Straight!," hosted by Peter Falk, received an Academy Award, 8 Emmys, and 25 other awards. Twenty-one years later, it remains among the most shocking and well-known TV documentaries ever broadcast. The follow-up, "Scared Straight! 20 Years Later," hosted by Danny Glover, premiered to critical and commercial success on UPN in April, 1999, and "Scared Straight! '99" garnered impressive ratings for MTV in August, 1999.
· "L.A. Detectives" (1998-2000), hosted by Bill Kurtis for A&E, profiles vigilant detectives from the L.A. County Sheriff's Department as they solve crimes and seek justice.
· "The Teen Files" (1998-2000), hosted by Leeza Gibbons, is a series of seven UPN specials dealing with teen SMOKING, DRINKING (1999 Emmy Award: Outstanding Children's Program), HATE, SEX, VIOLENCE, DRUGS, and BODY IMAGE. Series won 2000 Governors' Award from Academy of Arts & Sciences.
· "The Story of Santa Claus," featuring the voices of Ed Asner, Betty White and Tim Curry, is an animated musical Christmas special which has aired annually on CBS since 1996.
· "Break The Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse," (1994) hosted by Jane Seymour on CBS and winner of a Peabody Award, holds the distinction of being the first primetime network non-news special to air without commercials.
· "Kids Killing Kids" (1994) was the first primetime drama to air commercial-free, and on two networks simultaneously -- CBS and FOX. Showing the tragic consequences of kids carrying guns, it received the Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program; it now airs on FOX Family Channel.
· "The Man With Three Wives" (1993, CBS), starring Beau Bridges, was the highest-rated two-hour TV movie of the 1992-1993 season. The film is based on the true story of a physician who married... and married... and married... and died of heart failure at age 53.
· "Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse," hosted by Oprah Winfrey, is the most watched non-fiction special ever broadcast on American television. In 1992, it made history by being the first non-news program to air simultaneously on three networks -- NBC, CBS, and PBS, followed by ABC.
Documentary (Features) 1978: SCARED STRAIGHT! - Producer
1 nomination, 1 Award
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