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Austin Hoyt
Born	Buffalo, NY
Occupation	Film Producer
Spouse	Felicity Forbes Barber
Website	https://www.austinhoytproductions.net/

Austin Hoyt (born June 20, 1937) is an American producer, writer, and director.

Early Life

Hoyt was born on June 20, 1937 in Buffalo, New York to Amie Dean Stimson and Captain John Davidson Hill Hoyt.

Hoyt graduated from The Park School of Buffalo before attending Yale University.

Career

Austin Hoyt was a Producer and Executive Producer at WGBH Boston from March 1965 to March 2003 when he founded his own company, Austin Hoyt Productions, Inc.

His notable productions include:

• "Victory in the Pacific," Hoyt’s two-hour film on the final year of the war in the Pacific, aired on American Experience May 2, 2005. It was nominated in 2006 for three Emmy Awards: Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form, Outstanding Achievement in Writing, and Outstanding Achievement in Research. The US Department of State sponsored Hoyt and this film on a tour of the United Kingdom
• American Experience was awarded a Prime Time Emmy in 1999 for his four-hour biography of Douglas MacArthur.
• Hoyt won a Peabody Award for his contributions to American Experience 's special series of Presidential portraits - biographies of Ronald Reagan (1998) and Dwight Eisenhower (1993). The National Endowment for the Humanities selected "Ike" for a film festival held in April 2005 at the National Archives celebrating its 40th anniversary. Hoyt was one of two speakers at the event.
• "The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie" (1997), his American Experience two-hour special, received the Eric Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians.
• In 1985 Frontline aired a four-part Special Report "Crisis in Central America" which won a Peabody Award. Hoyt was executive producer and produced and wrote part four, "Battle for El Salvador."
• He produced and wrote two films in the 1983 13 part series Vietnam: A Television History: "LBJ Goes to War (1964-1965)," for which he won both an Emmy and a Writer's Guild of America Award, and "Tet, 1968." ABC selected "LBJ" to air on Ted Koppel's Nightline.
• Hoyt launched Ben Wattenberg on his television career in 1976 with In Search of the Real America: A Challenge to the Chorus of Failure and Guilt, a 13 part series affirming American values often disparaged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He produced the first program "There's No Business Like Big Business" which won the Tuck Award for the Advancement of Economic Understanding. The series showcased the neo-conservative movement, which gained ascendancy when Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980.
• In 1975 Hoyt was executive producer of the children's series ZOOM for which he received an Emmy nomination.
• 1967 he won the UPI Tom Phillip's Award for "LSD: Lettvin vs. Leary" in which MIT professor Jerome Lettvin challenged the high priest of LSD, Timothy Leary. It aired on NET Journal.

Personal Life

Hoyt has been married to Felicity Forbes Barber since August 28, 2004.

He retired to S. Dartmouth, MA with his wife Felicity where in 2011 he published Bill Levitt in his Own Words, an oral history of the owner of the Alta Lodge in Utah.

He is currently finishing The Haunting Valley of the South Nahanni, the story of his adventures on Canada’s fabled South Nahanni River and an exploration of some of its mysteries.