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T. J. Martin
Thomas McKay Martin Jr. (born September 7, 1979), known professionally as T. J. Martin, is an American filmmaker. Martin's film Undefeated (2011), for which he was co-director, co-editor, and co-cinematographer, won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, making Martin the first film director of African-American descent to win an Academy Award for a feature-length film.
Martin's film LA 92 (2017), for which he was co-director and co-editor, won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.
Martin co-directed the documentary film Tina (2021) about the life of singer Tina Turner, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.
Martin was born on September 7, 1979, in Seattle, Washington, to singer Tina Bell (1957–2012) and guitarist Tommy Martin (1958–2019), both members of the late punk/early grunge Seattle band Bam Bam. Martin's mother was African-American and his father was white. Martin is also of Native American, Scandinavian, Chinese and Jewish origin.
Martin graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle and went on to attend Fairhaven College at Western Washington University, where he studied American Cultural Studies, graduating in 2005. While there, Martin co-directed his first film, the feature documentary A Day in the Hype of America (2002), concerning the hysteria around the Y2K problem, which won Best Documentary at the 2002 Rhode Island International Film Festival. Martin then directed short films such as Loves Martha and On the Rocks, the latter is a docudrama about drug and alcohol addiction.
In 2007, Martin met future directing partner Daniel Lindsay in Los Angeles, when they collaborated on the feature documentary Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong, directed by Lindsay and edited by Martin.[citation needed] The film was distributed by Morgan Spurlock's company Warrior Poets.[citation needed]
As co-directors, Martin and Lindsay next made the feature documentary Undefeated, which chronicles the football team of Manassas High School in Memphis, Tennessee. The film focuses on the lives of several of the players and their coach, Bill Courtney, over the course of a single season. Undefeated premiered at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival and was purchased by The Weinstein Company for North American distribution just hours after the first screening. Released to near universal acclaim, the film went on to win the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 2012. Undefeated holds a 96% rating on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
In November 2012, Martin was listed on Ebony Magazine's "Power 100" list. That same year he received the award for “Outstanding Achievement in Directing” from the Seattle International Film Festival.
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T. J. Martin
Thomas McKay Martin Jr. (born September 7, 1979), known professionally as T. J. Martin, is an American filmmaker. Martin's film Undefeated (2011), for which he was co-director, co-editor, and co-cinematographer, won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, making Martin the first film director of African-American descent to win an Academy Award for a feature-length film.
Martin's film LA 92 (2017), for which he was co-director and co-editor, won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.
Martin co-directed the documentary film Tina (2021) about the life of singer Tina Turner, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.
Martin was born on September 7, 1979, in Seattle, Washington, to singer Tina Bell (1957–2012) and guitarist Tommy Martin (1958–2019), both members of the late punk/early grunge Seattle band Bam Bam. Martin's mother was African-American and his father was white. Martin is also of Native American, Scandinavian, Chinese and Jewish origin.
Martin graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle and went on to attend Fairhaven College at Western Washington University, where he studied American Cultural Studies, graduating in 2005. While there, Martin co-directed his first film, the feature documentary A Day in the Hype of America (2002), concerning the hysteria around the Y2K problem, which won Best Documentary at the 2002 Rhode Island International Film Festival. Martin then directed short films such as Loves Martha and On the Rocks, the latter is a docudrama about drug and alcohol addiction.
In 2007, Martin met future directing partner Daniel Lindsay in Los Angeles, when they collaborated on the feature documentary Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong, directed by Lindsay and edited by Martin.[citation needed] The film was distributed by Morgan Spurlock's company Warrior Poets.[citation needed]
As co-directors, Martin and Lindsay next made the feature documentary Undefeated, which chronicles the football team of Manassas High School in Memphis, Tennessee. The film focuses on the lives of several of the players and their coach, Bill Courtney, over the course of a single season. Undefeated premiered at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival and was purchased by The Weinstein Company for North American distribution just hours after the first screening. Released to near universal acclaim, the film went on to win the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 2012. Undefeated holds a 96% rating on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
In November 2012, Martin was listed on Ebony Magazine's "Power 100" list. That same year he received the award for “Outstanding Achievement in Directing” from the Seattle International Film Festival.
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