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Dirk Wilutzky

filmmaker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ19278334 ↗
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Dirk Wilutzky (born 1965 in Herleshausen, West Germany) is a German film producer and director. He won the shared Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the 2014 documentary Citizenfour at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. He is married to film editor Mathilde Bonnefoy, with whom he produced Citizenfour.

Filmography (selected)

Director

2005: The Fleetingness

2007: Pitching in Hollywood

2011: Was tun?

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 2014, 2015, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-02-02. For this dossier, Dirk, Wilutzky and filmmaker is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19278334. VIAF identifies the subject as 168848873. The Library of Congress control number is no2011028916. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 2014, 2015 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dirk Wilutzky” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.