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He was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for his 2000 documentary, Curtain Call; he was also nominated for three Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary (2000, 2001, 2002), winning in 2000 for High School Boot Camp.
He won two Academy Awards, the first for Best Short Subject in 1955 for A Time Out of War that had served as his master's degree thesis at U.C.L.A. and which he co-scripted with his brother Terry Sanders; and the second for Best Documentary in 1970 for Czechoslovakia 1968.
As a filmmaker he won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject (1995) and the Emmy for Outstanding Information Special (1994–95) for his film One Survivor Remembers about Holocaust survivor, Gerda Weissmann Klein.
Her battle was documented in the 2007 film, Freeheld, winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Short Documentary.
interviewed in the Academy Award winning short documentary A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin.
In 1991 he won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for Days of Waiting, about Estelle Ishigo, a Caucasian artist who went with her Japanese American husband to a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short at the 48th Academy Awards.