Photo By: Dee Cercone/Everett Collection Brett Morgen at arrivals for KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK Premiere by HBO, The Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, CA April 21, 2015. ©Roadside Attractions Brett Morgen at arrivals for KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK Premiere by HBO, The Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, CA April 21, 2015. ©Roadside Attractions Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Brett Morgen,, ©HBOMR Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Brett Morgen,, ©HBOMR CHICAGO 10, director Brett Morgen, on set, 2007. Photos CHICAGO 10, director Brett Morgen, on set, 2007. In 2015, he directed the documentary 'Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,' a piercing inside look at the late troubled musician. He also dabbled in TV documentaries, producing 'Nimrod Nation' (Sundance 2005-06) about a small town basketball team, which won him a Peabody Award. His film 'The Kid Stays In The Picture' (2002) about the legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans, was screened at Cannes. This began his career as a critically acclaimed filmmaker. 'On the Ropes' won many festival awards and was nominated for an Academy Award. His thesis, the feature-length documentary 'On the Ropes' (1999), centered on a boxing coach and his three young protégés. He attended Hampshire College, where he majored in American mythology, before getting his masters in film from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He had a subscription to Variety at age nine and collected film memorabilia throughout middle school. Morgen was passionate about film from a young age he wanted to be a documentary filmmaker by age five. Morgen was born in 1968 and grew up in New York City. Over the course of his hugely successful career, he covered subjects from athletes to punk rockers to his fellow movie makers. Brett Morgen was a documentary filmmaker whose award winning work helped set the standard of nonfiction movie making in the early 21st century.

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