Cinetic Media has hired Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin MacDonald as its managing director.

Macdonald won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for “One Day in September,” a look at the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. MacDonald’s feature film, “The Last King of Scotland,” earned Forest Whitaker the Oscar for Best Actor for his chilling performance as Idi Amin.

MacDonald will be at the Venice Film Festival, where he will premiere “One to One: John & Yoko,” a documentary about the relationship between the music legends from Mercury Studios. His recent documentary “Klitschko: More Than a Fight,” a look at Vitali Klitschko, a boxing champion turned mayor of Kiev, opened the 2024 Sheffield DocFest. Previous work in the nonfiction space includes “Marley,” a portrait of reggae great Bob Marley; “Whitney,” an examination of pop sensation Whitney Houston; and “High & Low — John Galliano,” which charts the fall of the controversial fashion designer.

His most recent feature film was "The Mauritanian," a political thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster and Tahar Rahim. His producing credits include Asif Kapadia's "Senna," Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi's "The Rescue," and Ben Nicholas and David Tryhorn's "Pele." MacDonald runs a joint venture with Plan B to develop and produce nonfiction films and series.