TJ Martin

TJ Martin
Martin in 2017
Born
Thomas McKay Martin Jr.

(1979-09-07) September 7, 1979
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Alma materFairhaven College
Western Washington University
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • film editor
  • cinematographer
  • producer
  • commercial director
Years active2002–present
RelativesTina Bell (mother)
Websiteeveryone-else.com

Thomas McKay Martin Jr. (born September 7, 1979), known professionally as TJ Martin, is an American filmmaker. Martin's film Undefeated (2011), for which he was co-director, co-editor, and co-cinematographer, won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, making Martin the first film director of African-American descent to win an Academy Award for a feature-length film.

Martin's film LA 92 (2017), for which he was co-director and co-editor, won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.

Martin co-directed the documentary film Tina (2021) about the life of singer Tina Turner, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.

In 2023, he founded production company Everyone Else with filmmaking partner Dan Lindsay.

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