Patrick Creadon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Patrick Creadon (born May 1, 1967) is an American documentary filmmaker, best known for the documentary film Wordplay. A profile of New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz, Wordplay premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and became the second-highest grossing documentary of that year. His second film, I.O.U.S.A., an examination of America's debt problem which forecast the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was later named one of film critic Roger Ebert's Top 5 documentaries of the year. Since 2006, Creadon is one of only three filmmakers to release multiple films that were ranked within the Top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time. The other two filmmakers are Michael Moore (Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story) and Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for 'Superman' ). Description above from the Wikipedia article Patrick Creadon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1967-05-01 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known for
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Director
- Behind the Curve (2018) — Executive Producer
- 30 for 30 (2009) — Director
- Wordplay (2006) — Director
- I.O.U.S.A. (2008) — Director
- All Work All Play: The Pursuit of eSports Glory Live (2015) — Director
- Catholics vs. Convicts (2016) — Narrator (voice)
- If You Build It (2013) — Director
- Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982) — Tom Sawyer
- Hijacking Hollywood (1997) — Stand In
- Hesburgh (2019) — Director
- The King of Color (2025) — Director
- Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants (2009) — Director
- Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story (2019) — Director
- The Loyola Project (2022) — Director
- Ocean Stories: Wyland (2016) — Director