Blair Foster is a filmmaker who won two Emmys for her work on the Academy Award winning film, Taxi to the Dark Side as well as an Emmy for Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World. In 2017 she directed and produced, along with Alex Gibney, Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge for HBO. She also produced the Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Foster produced the Emmy nominated Sinatra: All or Nothing at All and the Peabody Award winning Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown both directed by Alex Gibney.She is the Executive Producer of The History of the Eagles as well as We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks. In 2012 Foster produced Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, part of the Peabody Award winning International Why Poverty series. She is the co-creator and director of The Conversation, seven short films about race published by the New York Times Op-Doc series. Blair attended graduate school for history and has a Master’s degree in documentary film from Stanford University.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Producer and director
- 16 on MovieCove · 24 credits in all
What are Blair Foster's films like?
Across their 14 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Power and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 11
A split, not a type: Light 4 · Serious 1 · Dark 6
Grounded 11 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 3 · Charged 3 · Intense 5
Steady 8 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 9 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 8 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 3
Easy watch 3 · Affecting 4 · Heavy 4
Resolved 6 · Open-ended 5 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet9
- Ambiguous5
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Blair Foster's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 14 of their 16 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (6).
Subscription and free streaming for Blair Foster'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
24 credits, 16 with a MovieCove page.
Marty, Life Is Short(2026)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Exodus (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Silver Dollar Road(2023)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Take Your Pills: Xanax(2022)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
Totally Under Control(2020)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
The Forever Prisoner(2021)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
Words on Bathroom Walls(2020)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
The Clinton Affair(2018)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Zero Days(2016)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
A Conversation with My Black Son (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
A Conversation With Latinos on Race (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
A Conversation with White People on Race (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
The Conversation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
We Steal Secrets(2013)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films
History of the Eagles(2013)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows
George Harrison: Living in the Material World (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Taxi to the Dark Side(2007)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all filmsThe Hands That Held the Knives (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 20 titles, 19 of them dated from 2005 to 2026.
Biggest box office
We Steal Secrets (2013)
Highest rated
Marty, Life Is Short (2026)
Most popular right now
We Steal Secrets (2013)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
a Primetime Emmy from 4 major nominations, 2012–2026.
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Music Film
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Nonfiction Special
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Blair Foster's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 90th percentile, the median of all 13; across their 11 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 86th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up15
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 16 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved4
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed4
Reviewers score the atmosphere 67/100 and the pacing 51/100 in their films, across 8 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Blair Foster work with?
People who share at least 2 of Blair Foster's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Alex Gibney shares the most, 9.
Directors
- Alex GibneyShared titles: The Forever Prisoner (2021), Totally Under Control (2020), The Clinton Affair (2018), Zero Days (2016), Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015), Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014), History of the Eagles (2013), We Steal Secrets (2013), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)See all 9 shared titles with Alex Gibney
Cinematographers and editors
- Antonio RossiShared titles: Marty, Life Is Short (2026), Silver Dollar Road (2023), Take Your Pills: Xanax (2022), The Forever Prisoner (2021), The Clinton Affair (2018), Zero Days (2016), Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015), Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014)See all 8 shared titles with Antonio Rossi
- Maryse AlbertiShared titles: Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014), History of the Eagles (2013), We Steal Secrets (2013), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)See all 4 shared titles with Maryse Alberti
- Ben SozanskiShared titles: Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between (2023), Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015), History of the Eagles (2013)See all 3 shared titles with Ben Sozanski
- Benjamin BloodwellShared titles: The Forever Prisoner (2021), Totally Under Control (2020), The Clinton Affair (2018)See all 3 shared titles with Benjamin Bloodwell
Producers
- Erin EdeikenShared titles: The Forever Prisoner (2021), Totally Under Control (2020), Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015), History of the Eagles (2013)See all 4 shared titles with Erin Edeiken
- Richard PerelloShared titles: The Forever Prisoner (2021), Totally Under Control (2020), The Clinton Affair (2018), Zero Days (2016)See all 4 shared titles with Richard Perello
- Stacey OffmanShared titles: The Forever Prisoner (2021), Totally Under Control (2020), The Clinton Affair (2018), Zero Days (2016)See all 4 shared titles with Stacey Offman
- Ophelia HarutyunyanShared titles: The Forever Prisoner (2021), Totally Under Control (2020), Zero Days (2016)See all 3 shared titles with Ophelia Harutyunyan
Mixed roles
- Alison EllwoodShared titles: Totally Under Control (2020), History of the Eagles (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Alison Ellwood
