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Bruce Sinofsky | Filmmaker, 58

Bruce Sinofsky, 58, an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker who gained prominence for his works that shined a spotlight on a murder case in Arkansas, died Saturday at his Montclair, N.J., a spokesman for Hugh M. Moriarty Funeral Home said Sunday.

File: Director Bruce Sinofsky, arriving at the 64th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles. Sinofsky, an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker who gained prominence for his works that shined a spotlight on a child murder case in a small southern town, has died. He was 58. Sinofsky's death was announced by his longtime collaborator Joe Berlinger. He said Sinofsky died Saturday in his sleep of complications from diabetes. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)
File: Director Bruce Sinofsky, arriving at the 64th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles. Sinofsky, an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker who gained prominence for his works that shined a spotlight on a child murder case in a small southern town, has died. He was 58. Sinofsky's death was announced by his longtime collaborator Joe Berlinger. He said Sinofsky died Saturday in his sleep of complications from diabetes. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)Read more
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Bruce Sinofsky, 58, an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker who gained prominence for his works that shined a spotlight on a murder case in Arkansas, died Saturday at his Montclair, N.J., a spokesman for Hugh M. Moriarty Funeral Home said Sunday.

The cause was complications from diabetes, Mr. Sinofsky's longtime collaborator, Joe Berlinger, said on Twitter.

Mr. Sinofsky and Berlinger drew praise for their Paradise Lost film trilogy, about the case of three teenage boys convicted in 1994 of killing three boys in West Memphis, Ark. The films, released in 1996, 2004, and 2011, raised questions about evidence used to convict the teens.

The teens each spent 18 years in prison, but in 2011 they were allowed to enter a plea in which they asserted their innocence while acknowledging there was enough evidence to possibly convict them.

The initial film, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, won an Emmy, while the final film, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, was nominated for an Academy Award. - AP

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