Kevin Macdonald

Kevin Macdonald is the grandson of the filmmaker Emeric Pressburger ( A Canterbury Tale, The Red Shoes ). Macdonald’s directorial credits include 2000's Academy Award–winning One Day in September, about the killing of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and 2003's Touching the Void, which tells the story of two climbers’ disastrous attempt to scale the Siula Grande, in the Andes, in 1985, and 2006’s The Last King of Scotland, for which Forest Whitaker won a Best Actor Oscar.

Biography via Criterion.