--- name: "Nan Goldin" canonical: "https://film.one/person/nan-goldin" fi1m_id: "nan-goldin" imdb_id: "nm0325667" tmdb_id: 1339289 wikidata_id: "Q234279" roles: ["Producer"] born: "12 September 1953" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "producer" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-03T02:34:47.871886+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." --- # Nan Goldin ## Identity Nan Goldin - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nan-goldin - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** nan-goldin - **IMDb ID:** nm0325667 - **TMDB ID:** 1339289 - **Wikidata ID:** Q234279 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Goldin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234279, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0325667/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1339289 Producer. Born 12 September 1953 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Producer - **Born:** 12 September 1953, Washington, District of Columbia, USA - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Goldin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234279, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0325667/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1339289 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*All the Beauty and the Bloodshed*](https://film.one/film/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed.md) (86) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Nan Goldin > Nan Goldin’s photographs and plain-spoken recollections make people matter on screen. Her contribution to *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed* is compelling, though the film sometimes moves on before we have finished looking. Nan Goldin talks over her photographs in *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed* (2022), and director Laura Poitras gives us time to look. These slideshows are among the documentary’s strongest passages: the pictures remain worth studying while the voice gives us more to understand. We were moved by how much the people in those photographs came to matter as she spoke. Her frankness allows that feeling to develop without the photographs becoming mere illustrations for an interview. Her producer credit sits alongside contributions of photography, slideshows and music input. Goldin had been making sequences from still pictures long before that collaboration. *The Ballad of Sexual Dependency* developed through evolving slideshows accompanied by music, with a film version in 1986. In *I’ll Be Your Mirror* (1995), made with Edmund Coulthard, she combined photographs with Super-8 footage and interviews. These are different ways of deciding how an audience encounters the photographs: which picture follows which, how long we look, and what we hear while looking. In Poitras’s film, editors Brian A. Kates, Joe Bini and Amy Foote handle the shifts between Goldin’s testimony, slideshows and campaign footage with care. Returning to her voice draws us back into the recollections after the urgency of the protests, without feeling like a pause for explanation. The photographs receive close attention even when there is pressing activity elsewhere. We can follow the campaign without finding that Goldin’s work has been reduced to background information about its central figure. The crowded structure is also the film’s chief limitation. Sometimes another change of subject arrives before a recollection has had enough time, and we wanted Poitras to stay with Goldin longer. The interruptions frustrate because those recollections are already absorbing. This remains a film we recommend warmly, particularly for the space it gives Goldin to speak and the care it takes over showing her work. Start with *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed*, and give the photographs as much attention as the protests. ## Biography Nan Goldin is an American photographer, artist and activist. Born on 12 September 1953 in Washington, District of Columbia, she has contributed to film and television in acting, producing and directing capacities. She appears as herself and is credited as a producer on the documentary *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed* (2022), directed by Laura Poitras. Earlier credits include the role of Nan in *Variety* (1985) and Woman at the Bar Exhibit in the series *The Deuce* (2017). She directed *I'll Be Your Mirror* (1995). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed* (2022), Fi1m 86, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed.md) ## Complete filmography (24) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Gaza* (2025), Director - *Nan Goldin: I Remember Your Face* (2024), Actor - *The Stendhal Syndrome* (2024), Director - *You never did anything wrong* (2024), Director, Editor - *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed* (2022), Producer, Music Consultant — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed.md) - *The Other Side* (2021), Director - *Memory Lost* (2021), Editor, Director - *Sirens* (2019), Director, Editor - *The Deuce* (2017), series, as Woman at the Bar Exhibit — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-deuce.md) - *Fire Leap* (2011), Director - *Sisters, Saints and Sibyls* (2004), Director - *A Private Affair* (2002), Thanks - *Heartbeat* (2001), Director - *Contacts: Nan Goldin* (1999), as Other - *I'll Be Your Mirror* (1996), Writer, Director - *Under Lock and Key* (1994), Actor - *When Pigs Fly* (1993), Still Photographer - *Sleepwalk* (1986), Still Photographer - *Greed: Pay to Play* (1986), Still Photographer - *The Ballad of Sexual Dependency* (1985), Director, Cinematography - *Variety* (1985), as Nan · Still Photographer - *You Are Not I* (1981), as accident victim · Still Photographer - *Liberty's Booty* (1980), Actor - *Empty Suitcases* (1980), Actor ## Gallery - ![Nan Goldin](https://film.one/media/person/4237343/gallery-7503ac81c07d.jpg) Nan Goldin — team art in berlin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Nan_Goldin_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Self Portraits project for Art Direction program in Barcelona. Art Direction and Styling. Dita, Nan, Maura and You shot by Jordi Marin and Estel Román. Annie sh (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/4237343/gallery-8bcd35f34a56.jpg) Self Portraits project for Art Direction program in Barcelona. Art Direction and Styling. Dita, Nan, Maura and You shot by Jordi Marin and Estel Román. Annie sh (2008) — Miguel Figueroa from Barcelona, Spain, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/After_Nan..jpg/1280px-After_Nan..jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Nan Goldin during Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 ceremony in Berlin, 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4237343/gallery-0279158433bc.jpg) Nan Goldin during Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 ceremony in Berlin, 2023 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Nan_Goldin%2C_2023.jpg/1280px-Nan_Goldin%2C_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Nan Goldin during Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 ceremony in Berlin, 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4237343/gallery-3efdbd421d29.jpg) Nan Goldin during Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 ceremony in Berlin, 2023 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Nan_Goldin%2C_Berlin_2023-1.jpg/1280px-Nan_Goldin%2C_Berlin_2023-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Nan Goldin during Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 ceremony in Berlin, 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4237343/gallery-1ff6e9bef03f.jpg) Nan Goldin during Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 ceremony in Berlin, 2023 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Nan_Goldin%2C_Berlin_2023-2.jpg/1280px-Nan_Goldin%2C_Berlin_2023-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Nan Goldin during Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 ceremony in Berlin, 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4237343/gallery-ddcd544a84a0.jpg) Nan Goldin during Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 ceremony in Berlin, 2023 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Nan_Goldin%2C_Berlin_2023-3.jpg/1280px-Nan_Goldin%2C_Berlin_2023-3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 2023: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed* ### Other awards — 6 won - Women In Motion Award for Photography 2025: Women In Motion Award for Photography (won) - Time 100 2022: Time 100 (won) - Royal Photographic Society Award 2018: Royal Photographic Society Award (won) - Lucie Award 2014: Lucie Award (won) - Hasselblad Award 2007: Hasselblad Award (won) - Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 2006: Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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