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- Guy Nattiv is an American Academy Award© winning filmmaker. His first American short film, "Skin", won the 2019 Academy Award© for Best Live Action Short, and played over 300 festivals around the world. Nattiv is only the second Israeli ever to win an Oscar. The feature version, also entitled "Skin", stars Jamie Bell, Vera Farmiga and Danielle Macdonald, and premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Fipresci Critics Prize. It was distributed globally by A24 and Voltage in 2019. Guy recently directed the feature "Golda", starring Dame Helen Mirren playing Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during the controversial Yom Kippur war. It was distributed by Bleecker Street in 2023 after premiering at the Berlin Film Festival. His latest film, Tatami, premiered to significant acclaim at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival and won two awards at the Tokyo international film festival, which he co- directed with Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir Ibrahim ("Holy Spider"). It is the first cinematic collaboration between an Israeli and Iranian filmmaker and was shot secretly in 2022 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Guy lives in Los Angeles and runs New Native Pictures with his wife and partner Jaime Ray Newman.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Guy Nattiv
- SpouseJaime Ray Newman(April 2, 2012 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenAlma Ness Newman NattivMila Nico Newman Nattiv
- He and his wife, Jaime Ray Newman, won their first Academy Award on February 24, 2019. They received the Oscar for their short film Skin (2018), a 20-minute elegy about racism in America.
- Married Jaime Ray Newman on her 34th birthday that on April 2, 2012.
- Father, with wife Jaime Ray Newman, of daughters Alma Ness Newman Nattiv (b. September 18, 2018) and Mila Nico Newman Nattiv (b. October 3, 2019). Both girls were born through the help of surrogate mother.
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