---
name: "Carroll Ballard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/carroll-ballard"
fi1m_id: "carroll-ballard"
imdb_id: "nm0050597"
tmdb_id: 68212
wikidata_id: "Q1045172"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "14 October 1937"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "director"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T04:39:21.069270+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Carroll Ballard

## Identity

Carroll Ballard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/carroll-ballard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** carroll-ballard
- **IMDb ID:** nm0050597
- **TMDB ID:** 68212
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1045172
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Ballard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1045172, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050597/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68212

Director. Born 14 October 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 14 October 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 1979–1996
- **Also known as:** Caroll Ballard
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as director, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 87 (1), 1980s 79 (1), 1990s 60 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Adventure 2, Drama 2, Sport 2, Family 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $43m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Ballard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1045172, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050597/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68212

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Never Cry Wolf*](https://film.one/film/never-cry-wolf.md) (79), [*Wind*](https://film.one/film/wind.md) (60)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Black Stallion*](https://film.one/film/the-black-stallion.md) (87)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Carroll Ballard (born 14 October 1937) is an American film director and cinematographer. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a classmate of Francis Ford Coppola. Early in his career he made documentaries for the United States Information Agency, including *Harvest* (1967), which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Ballard worked as second-unit director on *Star Wars* (1977), handling many desert scenes. His first feature as director was *The Black Stallion* (1979), offered to him by Coppola. He went on to direct *Never Cry Wolf* (1983), *Wind* (1992), *Fly Away Home* (1996) and *Duma* (2005). Several of his films centre on human relationships with animals and the natural world.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Wind* (1992), Fi1m 60, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/wind.md)
- *Never Cry Wolf* (1983), Fi1m 79, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/never-cry-wolf.md)
- *The Black Stallion* (1979), Fi1m 87, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-black-stallion.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Duma* (2005), Director
- *Fly Away Home* (1996), Director
- *Wind* (1992), Director — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/wind.md)
- *Nutcracker: The Motion Picture* (1986), Director
- *Never Cry Wolf* (1983), Director — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/never-cry-wolf.md)
- *The Black Stallion* (1979), Director — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-black-stallion.md)
- *Crystallization* (1974), Director
- *The Hello Machine* (1974), Director, Producer
- *Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream* (1972), Cinematography
- *Seems Like Only Yesterday* (1971), Director
- *Rodeo* (1969), Director
- *The Perils of Priscilla* (1969), Director
- *Pigs!* (1967), Director
- *Harvest* (1967), Producer, Writer, Director of Photography, Director
- *Skaterdater* (1965), Additional Photography
- *3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt* (1964), Production Design
- *Waiting for May* (1963), Director

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1968: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *Harvest*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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