Doug Atchison is an American motion picture director and screenwriter. He received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship for Akeelah and the Bee in 2000. After winning the Nicholl Fellowship, former ICM superagent Lou Pitt guided Doug's screenplay into production in partnership with Lions Gate Entertainment, 2929 Entertainment, and Starbucks Productions. Akeelah and the Bee went on to become a critical and modest commercial success, which launched Atchison's career. In 2006, Atchison entered into a three-picture deal with The Weinstein Company. Atchison graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Doug Atchison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Biography from TMDB.
- October 20, 1974 (52)
- Director and writer
- 2 on MovieCove · 4 credits in all
Known for
Where can I watch Doug Atchison's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 2 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Doug Atchison's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
4 credits, 2 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Brian Banks(2018)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Spinning Into Butter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Akeelah and the Bee(2006)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
The Pornographer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)