Buddy Squires is an Oscar nominated filmmaker and Emmy winning director of photography.
He is best known as the cinematographer of numerous documentary features and television specials including: The War; Jazz; The Civil War; New York; Nanking; Mark Twain; Crime & Punishment; Smashed; Baseball; Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; The Donner Party; Reporting America at War; Ansel Adams; Ram Dass: Fierce Grace; One Survivor Remembers; Amato; Frank Lloyd Wright; Soldiers of Peace: A Children’s Crusade; Heart of a Child; Compassion in Exile: The 14th Dalai Lama; Chimps: So Like Us; The West; Scottsboro: An American Tragedy; and Out of the Past.
Squires has photographed six Oscar nominated films and one Academy Award winner. Eighteen of the films he has shot have been nominated for Emmy Awards and nine have won. In 2007 he was awarded the International Documentary Association’s Outstanding Documentary Cinematography Award (career achievement).
His producing credits include: Statue of Liberty (Oscar nomination with Ken Burns) and Coney Island (Sundance Film Festival). He is the director of Listening to Children (Emmy nomination) and the co-director of Fast Eddie, Seeking Justice, People’s Poetry, and War Files.