Sarah Marshall Kernochan is a film director, screenwriter and producer from New York City. She gained national prominence in the United States as co-director and co-producer with Howard Smith of the 1972 film MARJOE, which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature. She has been primarily a screenwriter for such films as DANCERS (1987); IMPROMPTU (1991), the debut film directed by her husband James Lapine; SOMMERSBY (1993); wrote and directed THE HAIRY BIRD (1998); co-wrote the story for WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000); and directed THOTH (2002) and wrote LEARNING TO DRIVE (2014). Her second documentary, THOTH, also won an Academy Award in 2002, this time for Best Documentary Short Subject.