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Phil Alden Robinson (born March 1, 1950) in Long Beach, New York, is an American film director and screenwriter whose films include Field of Dreams
, Sneakers, and The Sum of All Fears
.

He graduated Union College in Schenectady, New York with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Union College in 1996.

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Credits include:

All of Me
, starring Steve Martin
and Lily Tomlin
(1984) - Writer
In the Mood, starring Patrick Dempsey
, Beverly D'Angelo
and Talia Balsam
(1987) - Writer / Director
Field of Dreams
, starring Kevin Costner
, James Earl Jones
, Amy Madigan
and Burt Lancaster
(1989) - Writer / Director
Sneakers, starring Robert Redford
, Sidney Poitier
, Dan Aykroyd
, Mary McDonnell
, River Phoenix
and Ben Kingsley
(1992) - Co-writer / Director
Freedom Song, a TNT movie about the Civil Rights movement, starring Danny Glover
and Vondie Curtis-Hall
(2000) – Co-Executive Producer / Co-writer / Director
Band of Brothers - HBO, produced by Steven Spielberg
and Tom Hanks
(2001) - Director (Episode One)
The Sum of All Fears
, starring Ben Affleck
and Morgan Freeman
(2002) - Director

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Field of Dreams
earned nominations for the Directors Guild of America Award, the Writers Guild of America Award, and three Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay Adaptation. It has won the Christophers Award, and Premiere Magazine's Readers Poll for Best Picture of 1989.

Sneakers was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America.

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 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, he (along with all the directors on the series) was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award and won an Emmy Award for Best Directing of a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special.

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