Marc Smerling

Awards

Nominated for 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 nominated

• ◦ 2004 Best Documentary Feature Film Nominated Capturing the Friedmans

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

• ★ — Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series Won

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Marc Smerling is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and director. He was nominated for an Oscar for Capturing the Friedmans in 2003, and co-wrote and produced The Jinx, a six-part HBO documentary on suspected murderer Robert Durst. He directed the FX docuseries A Wilderness of Error based on the book of the same name.