News of August 21, 2015
Karolyn Ali: Producer of Tupac: Resurrection Dies
Oscar-nominated for “Tupac: Resurrection”: Producer Karolyn Ali died of natural causes in Los Angeles on August 18, 2015, at the age of 70.
Tupac’s own words from interviews and recordings carried the film: the 2003 documentary Tupac: Resurrection was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Karolyn Ali was one of the producers. On August 18, 2015, she died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 70. Billboard reported her death on August 21, 2015.
From Music Videos to the Film Academy
Covering her career, Billboard wrote that Ali had worked on films, documentaries, music videos, and commercials, collaborating with Stevie Wonder, Ziggy Marley, Dionne Warwick, and Burt Bacharach, among others. Since 2003, she had been the assistant to her longtime friend Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy announced her death.
More about the film can be found on the page Tupac: Resurrection.