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name: "Charles Ferguson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/charles-ferguson"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "24 March 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-19T10:12:16.243686+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."
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# Charles Ferguson

Producer and director. Born 24 March 1955 in San Francisco, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 24 March 1955, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ferguson_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q524780, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2480587/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74058

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Inside Job*](https://film.one/film/inside-job.md) (82)

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## Biography

Charles Ferguson is an American documentary filmmaker, director and writer. Born on 24 March 1955 in San Francisco, he holds a BA in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ferguson previously worked as a consultant on technology policy and founded the software company Vermeer Technologies, which he sold to Microsoft in 1996. He is the founder and president of Representational Pictures.

His films include the documentary *No End in Sight* (2007), about the American occupation of Iraq, and *Inside Job* (2010), on the global financial crisis, for which he also wrote the screenplay. *Inside Job* won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, dealbook.nytimes.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Inside Job* (2010), Fi1m 82, Writer, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/inside-job.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *Watergate* (2018), series, as Narrator (voice) · Director, Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Time to Choose* (2015), Writer, Director
- *Inside Job* (2010), Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/inside-job.md)
- *No End in Sight* (2007), Director, Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2008: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *No End in Sight*

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

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