Robert Stone is a multi-award-winning, Oscar®- nominated and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Born in England in 1958, Stone grew up in both Europe and America. After graduating with a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin Madison, he moved to New York City in 1983 determined to pursue a career in filmmaking. He gained considerable recognition for his first film, Radio Bikini (1987), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature.

Multi-tasking as a producer, director, writer, editor and cameraman, Stone has over the last 30 years developed an esteemed international reputation for his unique and critically acclaimed feature-documentaries about American history, pop-culture, the mass media and the environment. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly called Stone “one of our most important documentary filmmakers,” for directing “two of the most explosively insightful documentaries of the last decade.” His best-known work includes Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004), which premiered at Sundance and went on to become one of the most highly-acclaimed theatrical documentaries of the year. The film was followed by the documentary feature Oswald’s Ghost (2007) for which Stone earned his second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Filmmaking. Earth Days (2009), which premiered as the closing night film at Sundance, traced the emergence of the environmental movement in the United States, from its beginnings in the 1950s to the first Earth Day celebration in 1970 and the political action that followed it. Pandora’s Promise (2013), an audience favorite at Sundance, prompted considerable controversy by telling the intensely personal stories of environmentalists and energy experts who have undergone a radical conversion from being fiercely anti- to strongly pro-nuclear energy.

Stone’s latest work, Chasing the Moon, is an epic political and social history of the race to the moon, broadcast on PBS as a three-part six-hour miniseries to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing. Stone also co-wrote, with Alan Andres, the companion book Chasing the Moon, published by Random House. Stone is a co-author of the Eco-Modernist Manifesto and co-founder of the non-profit group Energy for Humanity, both inspired by his filmmaking on environmental issues. He is also the creator of a 22-part permanent film installation at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.

Stone continues to create personally-crafted documentary films from his home in the Hudson Valley of New York, where he lives with his wife, Shelby Stone, a film and television producer, and his two sons.