Jon Blair, CBE, is a South African-born British writer, film producer, and director of documentary films, drama, and comedy. Biography Jon Blair was born in South Africa. He was drafted into the South African army in 1966 but chose instead to flee to England. Among numerous awards he has won four of the premier awards in his field: an Oscar, an Emmy (twice), an International Documentary Association Distinguished Achievement Award and a British Academy Award. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to film. In 1994 Blair was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey for his contribution to human rights awareness through his film-making work. In 2003 Blair served as a visiting professor at Stockton teaching a course on researching real world issues to a group of final year cross disciplinary students. Documentaries Anne Frank Remembered, written, produced and directed by Blair, is the winner of an Academy Award for Documentary Feature (Oscar), as well as an International Emmy, a CableACE, the International Documentary Association Distinguished Achievement Award, the Audience Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Jury Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival and a Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival together with awards for editing and cinematography at the New York Film and Television Festival. It has also been featured at the Melbourne, Montreal and Toronto International Film Festivals (all non-competitive). The film was distributed theatrically in the UK, North America and Australia. Blair is the winner of a British Academy Award for Best Documentary for his 1983 film, Schindler, which preceded Steven Spielberg's feature by 10 years and was used extensively by Spielberg as a research resource. Schindler was narrated by Dirk Bogarde and written, produced and directed by Blair. In 2019, he re-released Schindler in high definition with Ben Kingsley as the narrator. Most recently Blair won the 2022 Monte Carlo Television Festival Gold Nymph Award for Best Current Affairs Film for his feature documentary Navalny - The Man Putin Couldn't Kill of which the Guardian said "horror and absurdity jostle for space in this fascinating documentary". The Daily Telegraph called it "an extraordinary and bizarrely entertaining film" while The Sunday Telegraph said it is "a film brimming with the banality of evil." Between January 2011 and July 2013 Blair was in