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| Film-maker, Bud Greenspan. |
The very well known Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, Bud Greenspan, who archived the events of Olympic athletes for complete six decades, has now passed away when he was 84-yaers-old. He died this on this Saturday evening in his home of NYC while giving up to his Parkinson's disease, discloses the Associated Press.
Greenspan almost literally spent his entire lifetime committed to highlighting the elevating stories. He once speaking to ESPN, said himself: "I spend my time on about the 99 percent of what's good about the Olympics and most people spend 100 percent of their time on the one percent that's negative," than he later also emphasized at that time that "I've been criticized for seeing things through rose-colored glasses, but the percentages are with me." He received the popular Olympic Order award in 1985
In 1995 Greenspan was also crowned with a lifetime achievement award by the hands of Directors Guild of America, after which the next year he welcomed the George Foster Peabody Award. Again recently in 2006, he was again crowned with another lifetime achievement award, this time by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
To his like of achievements, Greenspan included several books with addition of producing more than 20 spoken-word albums. Before the unforeseen event he was still working on the rough cuts of films from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games.
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