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Jeremy Podeswa

  • Director
  • Producer
  • Additional Crew
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Jeremy Podeswa is an award winning feature film and television director who has been nominated four times for the Best Director Emmy, for HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" and "Game of Thrones" (twice), and for the Tom Hanks/ Steven Spielberg produced "The Pacific". He has also been nominated four times for the Directors Guild of America Award.

He has also recently directed episodes of "3 Body Problem" (Netflix), from the creators of GoT, and "The New Look" (Apple) starring Juliette Binoche. And he was Executive Producer and Director on the HBOMax limited series "Station Eleven" earning a Directors Guild of America nomination. The show was nominated for 7 Emmy Awards.

He has directed for many of the most ground breaking cable television series and mini-series, including for HULU "The Handmaid's Tale"; for HBO, "Game of Thrones", "True Detective", "The Newsroom", "Here and Now", "Boardwalk Empire", "True Blood", "Rome", "Six Feet Under", "Carnivale" and "The Pacific"; for Apple "The Mosquito Coast" and "The New Look"; for Showtime, "The Loudest Voice", "On Becoming a God in Central Florida", "Homeland", "Ray Donovan", "The Borgias", "The Tudors", "Dexter", "Weeds", "Queer as Folk", "The L Word"; for AMC "The Walking Dead"; for F/X "American Horror Story: Asylum and Coven"; and for TNT the mini-series "Into the West" (produced by Steven Spielberg and nominated for 16 Emmy Awards).

Other credits include the television movie "After the Harvest", starring Sam Shepard, winner of the Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Direction.

He has also written and directed three award winning feature films: Fugitive Pieces (Samuel Goldwyn Films, Opening Night, Toronto International Film Festival) starring Stephen Dillane and Rosamund Pike; The Five Senses (Fine Line Distribution, Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival) starring Mary Louise Parker; and Eclipse (Berlin and Sundance Festivals).
Born1962
Born1962
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    • Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys
      • 23 wins & 37 nominations total

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    Known for

    The Five Senses (1999)
    The Five Senses
    6.7
    • Director
    • 1999
    Fugitive Pieces (2007)
    Fugitive Pieces
    6.9
    • Director
    • 2007
    The Pacific (2010)
    The Pacific
    8.3
    TV Mini Series
    • Director
    Mackenzie Davis in Station Eleven (2021)
    Station Eleven
    7.6
    TV Mini Series
    • Director

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    Director



    • The New Look (2024)
      The New Look
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2024
    • 3 Body Problem (2024)
      3 Body Problem
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Mackenzie Davis in Station Eleven (2021)
      Station Eleven
      7.6
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2021–2022
    • Justin Theroux in The Mosquito Coast (2021)
      The Mosquito Coast
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Kirsten Dunst in On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019)
      On Becoming a God in Central Florida
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Russell Crowe in The Loudest Voice (2019)
      The Loudest Voice
      7.9
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
      The Handmaid's Tale
      8.3
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2018
    • Tim Robbins, Holly Hunter, Sosie Bacon, Jerrika Hinton, Raymond Lee, and Daniel Zovatto in Here and Now (2018)
      Here and Now
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2018
    • Mission Control
      7.5
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Game of Thrones (2011)
      Game of Thrones
      9.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2015–2017
    • Broken (2016)
      Broken
      6.8
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2016
    • Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in True Detective (2014)
      True Detective
      8.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2015
    • Boardwalk Empire (2010)
      Boardwalk Empire
      8.6
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2010–2014
    • Adam Rayner, Ashraf Barhom, and Moran Atias in Tyrant (2014)
      Tyrant
      7.7
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2014
    • Andrew Lincoln in The Walking Dead (2010)
      The Walking Dead
      8.1
      TV Series
      • Director (directed by)
      • 2013

    Producer



    • Blade Runner 2099
      • executive producer
      • In Production
      • TV Mini Series



    • Darla Contois in Little Bird (2023)
      Little Bird
      8.1
      TV Mini Series
      • executive producer
      • 2023
    • Mackenzie Davis in Station Eleven (2021)
      Station Eleven
      7.6
      TV Mini Series
      • executive producer
      • 2021–2022
    • He Hated Pigeons (2015)
      He Hated Pigeons
      6.2
      • associate producer
      • 2015
    • The Five Senses (1999)
      The Five Senses
      6.7
      • producer
      • 1999
    • Eclipse (1994)
      Eclipse
      5.9
      • producer
      • 1994
    • Nion in the Kaberet de LaVita
      Short
      • producer
      • 1986

    Additional Crew



    • Moderated by Matt (2022)
      Moderated by Matt
      TV Series
      • self
      • 2023
    • Script to Screen: Get Out (2018)
      Script to Screen
      TV Series
      • self
      • 2019
    • When Night Is Falling (1995)
      When Night Is Falling
      6.5
      • publicist
      • 1995
    • Tim Allen and Eric Lloyd in The Santa Clause (1994)
      The Santa Clause
      6.6
      • unit publicist
      • 1994
    • Zero Patience (1993)
      Zero Patience
      6.2
      • unit publicist
      • 1993
    • A Man in Uniform (1993)
      A Man in Uniform
      6.8
      • unit publicist
      • 1993
    • Jeremy Irons and Geneviève Bujold in Dead Ringers (1988)
      Dead Ringers
      7.2
      • unit publicist
      • 1988
    • Cher in Moonstruck (1987)
      Moonstruck
      7.2
      • production assistant: Toronto
      • 1987

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    • Alternative names
      • J.Podeswa
    • Born
      • 1962
      • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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      Comes from a Jewish family. His father was the only one of his immediate family to make it out of the German Nazi camps alive.

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