Jeremy Kagan

Jeremy Kagan
Born	Jeremy Paul Kagan (1945-12-14) December 14, 1945 Mount Vernon, New York
Other names	Jeremy P. Kagan
Occupation	Television and film director, screenwriter
Partner(s)	Anneke Campbell

Jeremy Paul Kagan (born December 14, 1945) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and television producer.^[1]

Early life

Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Kagan received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1967 and went on to attend the newly formed New York University Graduate Institute of Film & Television was in the first class at the American Film Institute.

Film and television career

Kagan's feature film credits include the box-office hit Heroes (1977),^[2] The Big Fix^[2] (1978) a political comedy-thriller starring Richard Dreyfuss; The Chosen (1981), from the classic book of the same name by Chaim Potok; The Journey of Natty Gann^[1] (1985), the first American movie ever to win the Gold Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival; the underground comedy Big Man on Campus^[2] (1989); the cult classic fencing film By The Sword^[2] (1991); and the hybrid film Golda's Balcony^[2] (2006), from the hit play of the same name.

He has also been a prolific television director, starting already in 1972 at the age of 26, directing The Most Crucial Game (starring Peter Falk, Robert Culp, Valerie Harper, Val Avery, Susan Howard, Dean Stockwell among others), an episode in the second Columbo^[2] season. In 1996, Kagan won an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the Chicago Hope episode "Leave of Absence". Other credits include the television movie Katherine: The Making of an American Revolutionary, which he also wrote, and Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8^[2] for which he won the CableACE Award for Best Dramatic Special. Kagan also directed Roswell: The UFO Conspiracy,^[2] which garnered a Golden Globe Award nomination.

Other television films include The Ballad of Lucy Whipple,^[2] Courage^[2] with Sophia Loren, Scott Joplin, Descending Angel for HBO and for Showtime Color of Justice,^[2] Bobbie's Girl,^[2] and Crown Heights,^[2] about the riots in 1991 which won the Humanitas Award in 2004 for "affirming the dignity of every person." This film also received an NAACP Image Award and the Directors Guild nomination for best family film. Kagan also directed a movie episode of Steven Spielberg's Emmy winning Taken. He has worked on several other series shows including The West Wing, The Guardian,^[2] Resurrection Blvd.,^[2] Picket Fences,^[2] Boomtown and more.

Kagan produced and directed the ten-part series The ACLU Freedom Files, in 2006 and 2007 which received a number of awards and was shown on Link TV, Court TV and PBS. Kagan recently made a number of short documentaries and advocacy films for NGOs including The Doe Fund which works with the homeless and formerly incarcerated, and The Democracy School a movement developing local governance, and Bioneers which advances achievements in environmental and social justice.

Other ventures

Kagan is a full tenured professor at the University of Southern California where he teaches the graduate courses in directing and has recently created the Center for Change Making Media which is to become a hub for research and training in advocacy cinematic techniques.

He has served as Artistic Director at the Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and is on a National Board Member of the Directors Guild of America and chairperson of its Special Projects Committee which provides cultural and educational programs for the 14,000 members. In 2004 he was honored with the Robert Aldrich Award for "extraordinary service to the guild."

Kagan is also the author of the book Directors Close Up (Scarecrow, 2006). 0240804066

Personal life

Kagan lives in Venice, California with his companion Anneke Campbell. She is an author, and was a writer on the series Freedom Files. His daughter Eve is a graduate of the Harvard Ed School, and is now actress, writer and yoga teacher.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Result	Category	Film or series
1988	CableACE Awards	Nominated	Directing a Theatrical or Dramatic Special	Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
1988	CableACE Awards	Won	Dramatic Special	Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (Shared with Amanda DiGiulio, Charles Hairston, Max A. Keller, Micheline H. Keller, and Ron Sossi)
2004	Directors Guild of America Award	Won	Robert B. Aldrich Achievement Award	-
2005	Directors Guild of America Award	Nominated	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs	Crown Heights
1996	Emmy Award	Won	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Drama Series	Chicago Hope (For ""Leave of Absence" episode)
1981	Montreal World Film Festival	Won	Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention	The Chosen
1981	Montreal World Film Festival	Won	Grand Prix des Amériques	The Chosen
1987	Paris Film Festival	Won	Special Jury Prize	The Chosen

References

1 2 "Jeremy Kagan". The New York Times.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Jeremy Kagan Filmography". The New York Times.

External links

Jeremy Kagan at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Jeremy Kagan

Katherine (1975) Heroes (1977) Scott Joplin (1977) The Big Fix (1978) The Chosen (1981) The Sting II (1983) The Journey of Natty Gann (1985) Big Man on Campus (1989) Descending Angel (1990) By the Sword (1991) Roswell (1994) The Hired Heart (1997) Bobbie's Girl (2002)

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series

Jack Smight for "Eddie" (1959)
Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (1960)
George Schaefer for "Macbeth (II)" (1961)
Franklin J. Schaffner (1962)
Stuart Rosenberg for "The Madman" (1963)
Tom Gries for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964)
Paul Bogart for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965)
Sydney Pollack for "The Game" (1966)
Alex Segal for Death of a Salesman (1967)
Lee H. Katzin (1968)
David Greene for "The People Next Door" (1969)
Paul Bogart for "Shadow Game" (1970)
Daryl Duke for "The Day the Lion Died" / Fielder Cook for "The Price" (1971)
Alexander Singer for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" / Tom Gries (1972)
Jerry Thorpe for "An Eye for an Eye" / Joseph Sargent for "The Marcus-Nelson Murders" (1973)
John Korty for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Robert Butler for "Part III" (1974)
Bill Bain for "A Sudden Storm" (1975)
David Greene for Episode 8 (Rich Man, Poor Man) (1976)
David Greene for Part 1 (Roots) (1977)
Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978)
Jackie Cooper for "Pilot" (The White Shadow) (1979)
Roger Young for "Cop" (1980)
Robert Butler for "Hill Street Station"(1981)
Harry Harris for "To Soar and Never Falter" (1982)
Jeff Bleckner for "Life in the Minors" (1983)
Corey Allen for "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" (1984)
Karen Arthur for "Heat" (1985)
Georg Stanford Brown for "Parting Shots" (1986)
Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot" (L.A. Law) (1987)
Mark Tinker for "Weigh In, Way Out" (1988)
Robert Altman for "The Boiler Room" (1989)
Thomas Carter for "Promises to Keep" / Scott Winant for "The Go-Between" (1990)
Thomas Carter for "In Confidence" (1991)
Eric Laneuville for "All God's Children" (1992)
Barry Levinson for "Gone for Goode" (1993)
Daniel Sackheim for "Tempest in a C-Cup" (1994)
Mimi Leder for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995)
Jeremy Kagan for "Leave of Absence" (1996)
Mark Tinker for "Where's Swaldo?" (1997)
Mark Tinker for "Pilot" (Brooklyn South) / Paris Barclay for "Brain Salad Surgery" (1998)
Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)
Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (The West Wing) (2000)
Thomas Schlamme for "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I" & "Part II" (2001)
Alan Ball for "Pilot" (Six Feet Under) (2002)
Christopher Misiano for "Twenty Five" (2003)
Walter Hill for "Deadwood" (2004)
J. J. Abrams for "Pilot" (Lost) (2005)
Jon Cassar for "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m." (2006)
Alan Taylor for "Kennedy and Heidi" (2007)
Greg Yaitanes for "House's Head" (2008)
Rod Holcomb for "And in the End..." (2009)
Steve Shill for "The Getaway" (2010)
Martin Scorsese for "Boardwalk Empire" (2011)
Tim Van Patten for "To the Lost" (2012)
David Fincher for "Chapter 1" (2013)
Cary Joji Fukunaga for "Who Goes There" (2014)
David Nutter for "Mother's Mercy" (2015)

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