BPS 264: Winning Oscar & Changing Television History with Alan Ball

Academy and Emmy Award-winning writer/director/producer Alan Ball
is among our generation’s most important creative voices. Born in
Atlanta, Ball studied Theatre Arts at Florida State University. In
March 2000, AMERICAN BEAUTY, Ball’s first screenplay to get
produced, won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best
Original Screenplay.

Ball went on to create and executive produce the groundbreaking HBO
drama SIX FEET UNDER. The series ran for five seasons and received
two Golden Globes, six Emmys, and an Emmy and DGA Award for Ball’s
direction of the pilot.

In 2007, Ball made his feature film directorial debut with
TOWELHEAD, distributed by Warner Independent Pictures. In 2008,
Ball continued his successful collaboration with HBO by creating
and executive producing the series TRUE BLOOD.

The series received two Golden Globe nominations for Best
Television Drama Series, as well as an Emmy nomination for
Outstanding Drama Series, a Producer’s Guild nomination, and a
Grammy soundtrack nomination for Ball. Then, in 2018, he created,
and executive produced HERE AND NOW for HBO.

Most recently, in 2020, Ball wrote, directed, and produced UNCLE
FRANK for Amazon Studios, which was nominated for an Emmy.

Please enjoy my conversation with Alan Ball.

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