Arnold Martin Schwartzman OBE RDI is a British designer, author, and film director who in 1982 won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, for his film of the reminiscences of Holocaust survivors titled Genocide.
Arnold Schwartzman was born in east London in 1936.[1] His family moved to Margate, Kent when he was nine years old, where his parents ran the Majestic Hotel in Cliftonville. Schwartzman's first job in the movie industry was in Margate, as the assistant projectionist at the Cameo cinema.[2] He studied at Canterbury College of Art, now University for the Creative Arts.[3] He is married to Isolde.[4]
Schwartzman's early career was in British television.[1]
In 1982, he won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, for Genocide.[5] His other films are Liberation (1994) and Echoes That Remain (1991). He has designed advertisements for the Oscars for several years.[6]
In 1982 he was appointed the director of design for the Los Angeles Olympic Games.[1]
Schwartzman was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2002.[1] In 2006 he was elected a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI).[1] He was made an Honorary Freeman of Margate, his hometown, in September 2023, with his colleague Sir Ben Kingsley attending the ceremony to pay tribute to Schwartzman's career.[2]
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