Biography of Director Lucy Walker:

Lucy Walker is a two-time Academy Award nominated British film director, whose films have won over fifty awards. On January 25, 2011 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Waste Land, which she directed. The film has won over thirty awards including Audience Awards at Sundance and Berlin, the IDA's Best Documentary and Pare Lorentz Awards. The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom is her second consecutive Academy Award nomination. Lucy was born in London, United Kingdom where she began directing theatre in high school before continuing as an undergraduate at Oxford University. After graduating from New College, Oxford with a B.A. and M.A. in Language and Literature, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the graduate film program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. There she won a contest to direct a video for Cowboy Junkies, directed three award-winning short films and earned an MFA.