Biography

Matthew O’Neill is an Emmy® Award winning and Academy Award® nominated documentary filmmaker and journalist. He most recently directed "She Runs The World," a 2025 Tribeca Festival official selection, the Emmy® and duPont-Columbia Award-winning "Can’t Look Away" for Bloomberg Originals, "The Last Twins" on PBS and a winner of the 2026 Christopher Award, and "Surveilled" with Ronan Farrow for HBO with Perri Peltz. Matt and Perri also created the Emmy® winning HBO documentary news series "AXIOS on HBO" and directed and produced the 2019 HBO documentary "Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America." Matt has been making non-fiction films and series with Downtown Community Television Center, Inc, (DCTV) in NYC's Chinatown for the last 25 years. His earlier projects for HBO, ESPN, Disney+, Netflix and FRONTLINE have focused on everything from the Egyptian Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American criminal justice system, and the School of American Ballet. His filmmaking has taken him to more than 50 different countries for films including "Baghdad ER," "In Tahrir Square" and "Wartorn." He has received two Academy Award nominations for "Redemption" and "China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" and has been recognized with two duPont-Columbia Awards, a Peabody Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, seven Emmy Awards and a Director’s Guild nomination.
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