Dan Krauss received his first Academy Award nomination in 2006 for his HBO short The Death of Kevin Carter and again in 2017 for his Netflix film, Extremis. His feature documentary 5B premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and went on to a nationwide theatrical release. In 2014, The Kill Team won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Truer than Fiction Independent Spirit Award, nominations from the Directors Guild of America and the Emmy Awards, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. In 2019, Krauss adapted the documentary into a dramatized feature for vaunted film studio A24 starring Alexander Skarsgård and Nat Wolff. He has been a cinematographer on such renowned documentaries as OJ: Made in America; Inequality for All; and The Most Dangerous Man in America. Krauss earned his Master’s Degree from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism where he has lectured in film and television production. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Directors Guild of America.