Director/Producer, How to Survive a Plague
Nominated for: Best Documentary
David France is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about AIDS since 1982, beginning in gay-community papers. Today he is one of the best-known chroniclers of the epidemic, having continued in the New York Times, where he was AIDS news writer in the 1990s; Newsweek, where he was senior editor for investigations till 2003; and now GQ and New York Magazine, where he is a contributing editor.
Mr. France has received the National Headliner Award and the GLAAD Media Award, and has seen his work inspire several films, most recently the Emmy-nominated Showtime film Our Fathers. He is at work on a major history of AIDS, due from Alfred A. Knopf in 2013.
