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Josh Fox - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

Explore Josh Fox net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Environmental activist and documentary filmmaker who is most well-known for his Oscar-nominated film Gasland. The film, How to let Go from The World (And Love All the Things Climate can’t Change) was screened at Sundance in 2016. In this article, we will discover how old is Josh Fox? Who is Josh Fox dating now & how much money does Josh Fox have?

NameJosh Fox
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BirthdayJuly 24
Birth Year1972
Place of BirthNew York
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Josh Fox Biography

Josh Fox is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on July 24, 1972 in New York, United States. He and Tim Hetherington both made Oscar-nominated documentaries that were part of the 83rd Academy Awards. and He and Tim Hetherington both made Oscar-nominated documentaries that were part of the 83rd Academy Awards. both produced Oscar-nominated documentaries which included in the 85th Academy Awards.

Fox founded the film and theatre company International WOW Company in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1996 with a group of performers from New York City and Asia. He has written and directed over 30 plays with his ensemble. Notable works include ?WOW! (1996), This is Not the Ramakian (1997), Stairway to the Stars (1999), HyperReal America (2001), The Bomb (2002), Orphan on God’s Highway (2002), Death of Nations Parts 1-4 (2003-6), The Comfort and Safety of Your Own Home (2004),The Expense of Spirit (2004),, Limitless Joy (2005), Surrender (2008), and Solutions Grassroots (2014). In addition, Josh has written, directed, and produced seven feature films, and over 25 short films, which have premiered in New York, Asia and around Europe. The New York Times has hailed him as “one of the most adventurous impresarios of the New York avant-garde” and Time Out NY called him “one of downtown’s most audacious auteurs,” citing his “brilliantly resourceful mastery of stagecraft.”

In 2008, Fox’s family was offered $100,000 in order to allow a natural gas fracking company to use his land in northern Pennsylvania. Fox set out to learn more about the fracking industry. After learning the truth behind some of the natural gas company’s false positive claims, he went on a mission to uncover them further, crossing the country visiting other fracking areas and seeing their drinking water conditions, birthing his anti-fracking activism.

The place he was raised is Milanville, Pennsylvania.

He is known for his stance against horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. He started and was later the creative director for the new York-based theater and film group The International WOW Company. The street was named in his honor in France in the region where the French anti-shale gas movement came into the fore.

Fox was born in 1972 and lived in Milanville, Pennsylvania. He is Jewish. He went to PS 6 in New York City, Wagner Junior High School and Columbia Preparatory School for High School. He attended Columbia University, majoring in theater, and graduated in 1995. Fox worked as an actor in Chicago in the early 1990s, and was featured in numerous plays including Drunkboat with Tracy Letts, Jim True and Michael Shannon at Steppenwolf theatre, Goose and TomTom by David Rabe at the Theater Building, and The Love of the Nightingale directed by Amy Landecker at the Next Theater. Beginning in 1994, Fox trained extensively with Anne Bogart, and SITI Company members Ellen Lauren, Will Bond, Stephen Webber and Barney O’Hanlon in Viewpoints, Suzuki and Composition.

Josh Fox Net Worth

Josh is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Josh Fox's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

The film’s director graduated in the class of Columbia University with a major in theater. He was the director of a film titled Memorial Day (2008).

Net Worth$5 Million
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Fox was awarded the 2010 LennonOno Grant for Peace by Yoko Ono.

Josh Fox is an American film director, playwright and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning 2010 documentary, Gasland. He is one of the most prominent public opponents of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. He is the founder and artistic director of a film and theater company in New York City, International WOW, and has contributed as a journalist to Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, NowThis, AJ+ and Huffington Post.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Gasland premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded the 2010 Special Jury Prize for Documentary. It was also nominated for Best Documentary Screenplay by the WGA and was awarded the Environmental Media Association Award for Best Documentary.

Who is Josh Fox Dating?

According to our records, Josh Fox is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of January 13, 2024, Josh Fox’s is not dating anyone.

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Fox received a 2011 Academy Award Nomination for Best Documentary for Gasland. He won the 2011 Primetime Emmy for Best Nonfiction Directing, in addition to three other Primetime Emmy nominations that year.

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In 2008, Fox directed his first narrative feature film, Memorial Day, an examination of American party culture, the Iraq War and torture. In 2010, he wrote, directed, and produced Gasland, and released it at the Sundance Film Festival. The film received critical success and was nominated for multiple awards. Josh later produced the HBO special Gasland Part II, which aired July 2013 and was released on DVD in January 2014.

In 2011, Fox, along with engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson and actor/activist Mark Ruffalo, founded The Solutions Project with the aim of moving the United States towards 100% renewable energy, including the use of wind power and solar power.

Facts & Trivia

Josh Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Josh Fox celebrates birthday on July 24 of every year.

In February 2012 Fox was arrested during a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on hydraulic fracturing when he attempted to videotape the proceedings.

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