Jeremy Podeswa
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, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The Pacific. 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, 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 painter, and the only one of his immediate family to make it out of the German Nazi camps alive. Podeswa graduated from Ryerson University's Film Studies program and the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies (now the AFI Conservatory). He is openly gay.
Awards
Podeswa was given two Genie Awards in 2000 as Best Director of The Five Senses, which was awarded Best Picture.
Filmography
Television
- List of Podeswa's directed television shows
Year | Title | Notes |
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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 |
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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 |