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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".
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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 returned the next season, directing the season premiere and the second episode.
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Jeremy Podeswa (born 1962) is a Canadian Emmy winning director of film and television. His most notable film credits are The Five Senses and Fugitive Pieces. For television he has directed episodes of Queer as Folk, The Tudors, Nip/Tuck, The L Word, Camelot, The Borgias and Rubicon. Has a particularly notable association with HBO, directing episodes of Six Feet Under, Carnivàle, Rome, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood and three episodes of The Pacific.
His father is a painter and is the only member of his immediate family to have made it out of a Nazi camp.
For Game of Thrones, Podeswa was initially announced as having been hired as a director for Season 2, but later lists did not show him as working on the series. When HBO confirmed the line-up of directors for the show, Podeswa was not present. It was later revealed that the original director for the episode "Blackwater" had pulled out of the production and Neil Marshall was brought in as a replacement. It has been speculated that Podeswa may have been the original director for that episode, but not confirmed.
On July 15, 2014, it was announced that Podeswa would be directing two episodes in the fifth season, the fifth and sixth episodes. On June 12, 2015, it was revealed he would be back to direct for the sixth season, the first and the second episodes. On June 29, 2016, it was reported that he is slated to direct in the seventh season.
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Aug 29, 2017 · Blame the Night King all you want — just don’t blame Jeremy Podeswa, the man who directed the season seven finale. “I wasn’t personally responsible for destroying the Wall,” the veteran ...
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Aug 29, 2017 · Director Jeremy Podeswa talks about how he filmed ‘The Dragon and the Wolf,’ the gigantic season 7 finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones
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Jun 9, 2018 · Jeremy Podeswa made his Game of Thrones directorial debut with a pair of episodes in season 5: “Kill the Boy” and “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.”. He continued with seminal season 6 episodes...
Mar 14, 2023 · Four-time Emmy nominee Jeremy Podeswa has signed onto Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 to direct the pilot and serve as producing director and an executive producer.
