Robert Snyder (January 16, 1916 – March 21, 2004) was a documentary filmmaker[1] who won an Academy Award in 1950 as producer of The Titan: Story of Michelangelo.

[6] Snyder was nominated for a second Academy Award in 1958 for a documentary on insects, The Hidden World, narrated by Gregory Peck.

Snyder produced or directed more than a half-dozen biographical documentaries about individuals, including his own father-in-law, futurist Buckminster Fuller.

Other subjects included American patron of the arts, poet, publisher, and peace activist Caresse Crosby, author Henry Miller, historians Will and Ariel Durant, Claudio Arrau[6] and cellist Pablo Casals.

[7] The Academy Film Archive houses the Masters & Masterworks Collection, named after Snyder's production company.