He has been nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film as producer.
In 1986, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film as producer of The Frog, the Dog and the Devil, made with the New Zealand National Film Unit and Martin Townsend.
[2] In August 2017, Macdonald presented at the New Zealand International Film Festival[3] the biographical documentary "No Ordinary Sheila", which describes the 9-decades-long life of the Wellington-based natural historian, illustrator and writer Sheila Natusch.
[4] The movie was filmed over three years (2014-2017), mostly shot in Wellington and Stewart Island.
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