Jeremy Podeswa

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Jeremy Podeswa
Born 1962 (age 62–63)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Ethnicity Jewish[1]
Alma mater Ryerson University
Occupation Film director
Screenwriter
Years active 1984–present

Jeremy Podeswa (born 1962) is a Canadian film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses (1999) and Fugitive Pieces (2007). He has also worked as director on the television shows Six Feet Under,[2] Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The Pacific.[3] He has also written several films.

In 2014 he directed episodes five and six of the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones,[4] earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the latter episode. He also directed the first two episodes of the show's sixth season.

Biography

Jeremy Podeswa was born in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario. His father was a Polish Jewish[1] painter, and the only one of his immediate family to make it out of the German Nazi camps alive.[5] Podeswa graduated from Ryerson University's Film Studies program[6] and the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies (now the AFI Conservatory).[7] He is openly gay.[8]

Awards

Podeswa was given two Genie Awards in 2000 as Best Director of The Five Senses, which was awarded Best Picture.[9]

Filmography

Television

  • List of Podeswa's directed television shows
Year Title Notes
2001-2004 Queer as Folk 4 episodes
2001 The Chris Isaak Show
2001-2005 Six Feet Under 5 episodes
2003-2005 Carnivàle 4 episodes
2003 Nip/Tuck 2 episodes (season 3)
2004 The L Word 1 episode
2004 Wonderfalls 1 episode
2005 Rome 1 episode
2005 Into the West 1 episode
2005 Commander in Chief 1 episode
2007 Dexter 1 episode
2007 John from Cincinnati 1 episode
2007 The Riches
2007-2010 The Tudors 8 episodes
2009 Empire State
2009 Weeds 1 episode
2010 The Pacific 3 episodes (co-directed 1 episode)
2010 Rubicon 2 episodes
2010-2014 Boardwalk Empire 7 episodes
2011 Camelot 2 episodes
2011 The Borgias 3 episodes
2011 True Blood 1 episode
2012 Homeland 1 episode
2012 American Horror Story: Asylum 1 episode
2012-2013 The Newsroom 2 episodes
2013 The Walking Dead 1 episode
2013 Ray Donovan 1 episode
2014 American Horror Story: Coven 1 episode
2015-2016 Game of Thrones 4 episodes
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
2015 True Detective 1 episode

Films

Year Title Notes
1983 David Roche Talks to You About Love
1984 Nion
1985 The Revelations of Becka Paulson
1985 In the Name of Bobby
1992 Standards
1993 Walls
1993 Caveman Rainbow
1994 Eclipse
1999 The Five Senses Won – Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction
Won – Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
2000 24fps
2001 Touch
2007 Fugitive Pieces

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