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William Gazecki is an American film director and former sound mixer best known for his documentary (1997), which earned a News & Documentary Emmy Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was awarded the International Documentary Association's Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award, and won awards at both the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival. Gazecki was nominated another three times for an Emmy award (1986, 1987, 1988), and for an Academy Award in 1998.
Much of Gazecki's career was in post-production sound mixing for film and television productions including St. Elsewhere (for which he was a co-recipient of an Emmy Award for sound mixing in 1986). Gazecki received awards for sound mixing from both the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) and the Motion Picture Sound Editors society (MPSE), and several gold and platinum albums.
In 2000, he followed Waco with the documentary Reckless Indifference about the murder of Jimmy Farris and the group of American teenagers sentenced to life in prison without parole under the felony murder rule. Gazecki directed 2002's Crop Circles: Quest for Truth.
In 2004, he co-produced campaign advertisements for Aaron Russo's Nevada gubernatorial campaign.
In 2014, Gazecki directed The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, showcased at the New York Jewish Film Festival. The New York Times reviewed it as not "especially well made", yet "because Tucker is such a gloriously rich figure...she renders its formal and aesthetic shortcomings (mostly) irrelevant". The Hollywood Reporter called it a "loving documentary", yet having "its share of missteps".
Gazecki is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
| 1986 | St Elsewhere | Emmy award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series |
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