Robinson directed the baseball film
Field of Dreams (1989).
Field of Dreams earned Robinson nominations for the
Directors Guild of America Award, the
Writers Guild of America Award, and for an Oscar for
Best Screenplay Adaptation (the film was also nominated for
Best Picture and
Best Original Score Oscars). Other accolades for the film include the
Christopher Award, and
Premiere Magazine's Readers Poll for Best Picture of 1989. His next feature was the thriller
Sneakers (1992).
Sneakers was nominated for an
Edgar Award by the
Mystery Writers of America. Robinson's 2000 TV drama
Freedom Song won the
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Longform Screenplay, was nominated for two
Emmy Awards, three
NAACP Image Awards (including
Best TV Movie), a
Screen Actors Guild Award, a Sound Editors
Golden Reel Award, and the
Humanitas Prize. It also received the
Christopher Award, the San Francisco Film Society's "Golden Gate Award", and a National Association of Minorities in Communications Image Award. For
Band of Brothers (2001), he, along with all the directors on the series, won an
Emmy Award for Best Directing of a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special. Robinson and the other
Band of Brother directors were also nominated for a
Directors Guild of America Award. In 1990, Robinson was named "Screenwriter of the Year" by the
National Association of Theatre Owners, and in 1994 received the
Writers Guild of America's Valentine Davies Award for contributions to the entertainment industry and the community-at-large. In 1992, he accompanied the
United Nations High Commission for Refugees as an observer on relief missions to
Somalia and
Bosnia, for which he wrote and directed his first of five documentaries for ABC News
Nightline. The last one,
Sarajevo Spring, was nominated for a national News & Documentary
Emmy Award in 1997. Robinson is currently Vice President of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is a past member of the board of directors of the
Writers Guild of America, and serves on the Board of Overseers of the
UCLA Hammer Museum. ==Filmography==