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,^[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. He will return to direct for the series' seventh season.^[5]

Biography[edit]

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.^[6] Podeswa graduated from Ryerson University's Film Studies program^[7] and the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies (now the AFI Conservatory).^[8] He is openly gay.^[9]

Podeswa was given two Genie Awards in 2000 as Best Director of The Five Senses, which was awarded Best Picture.^[10]

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 Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
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
2015-2017	Game of Thrones	4 episodes Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
2015	True Detective	1 episode

Year	Title	Notes
1983	David Roche Talks to You About Love
1985	The Revelations of Becka Paulson
1985	In the Name of Bobby
1986	Nion in the Kabaret de La Vita
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

^ ^a ^b Jeremy Podeswa, "But as he developed his craft, being Jewish wasn’t something he felt he needed to incorporate into television and film projects."
^ HBO. "Six Feet Under cast and crew". Retrieved 12 May 2010.
^ HBO. "Jeremy Podeswa on The Pacific". Retrieved 12 May 2010.
^ "Game of Thrones Season 5: What We Know So Far". Watchers On The Wall. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
^ Hibberd, James (June 29, 2016). "Game of Thrones season 7 directors revealed". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
^ Scott, Alec (September 2007), "The Prodigal Son", Toronto Life, retrieved 19 March 2008
^ "Jeremy Podeswa" Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 August 2011
^ Allon, Yoram; Cullen, Del; Patterson, Hannah (2002), Contemporary North American Film Directors, Wallflower Press, p. 425, ISBN 1-903364-52-3
^ "Sundown at Sundance & More", PlanetOut.com, 1 February 2000, archived from the original on 19 October 2003, retrieved 19 March 2008
^ "Jeremy Podeswa", Northern Stars, archived from the original (– ^{Scholar search}) on 28 October 2007, retrieved 15 March 2008 ^{[dead link]}