Steve Shill

Steve Shill
Born	United Kingdom
Occupation	Television director, television producer, actor, screenwriter, film director.
Years active	1988–present

Steve Shill is a British television and film director, actor, screenwriter, and television producer.

Career

He attended Keswick Grammar School in Keswick, Cumbria, England in the 1970s.

He studied Fine Art at Leeds University, was a member of Impact Theatre Co-operative, and, after they disbanded, made theatre work under his own name.

After completing the BBC Drama Director's Course he began his television directing career with episodes of EastEnders and Casualty for the BBC. Shill created the idea for Granada TV's Ted and Alice starring Dawn French.

He moved to the United States and worked on many successful shows produced by premium cable network HBO, including The Sopranos,^[1] The Wire,^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Rome, Carnivàle, Deadwood and Big Love.^[6]

He directed the pilot episode of Showtime's The Tudors and served as a regular director and executive producer throughout the first season. He has also directed episodes of Showtime's Brotherhood and Dexter. Shill directed all eight episodes of Spike TV's The Kill Point mini-series and also served as an executive producer. Shill directed and co-executive produced the 2008 Knight Rider TV movie which served as a pilot for a remake of the series.

Shill has also directed numerous episodes of memorable network programs, including all three programs of the Law & Order series, Night Stalker, Invasion, Commander in Chief, Dragnet, ER and The West Wing.

Shill joined the HBO western drama Deadwood as a director for the first season in 2004. The series was created by David Milch and focused on a growing town in the American West. Shill directed the episode "Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking".^[7] He returned as a director for the second season in 2005 and also wrote an episode. Shill directed the episode "New Money"^[8] and wrote and directed the episode "Something Very Expensive".^[9] Shill and the writing staff were nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Drama Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the second season.

He directed the theatrical feature Obsessed starring Idris Elba, Beyoncé Knowles, and Ali Larter. The film opened at number one in the United States of America in April 2009, taking almost $70m at the box office and becoming Screen Gems' second biggest opening weekend in their history.

In 2010 he directed the first season episode "Painkiller" for the legal drama series The Good Wife.^[10]

Shill had acting roles in The Last Temptation of Christ, The Missing Reel, Kinsey and Being Human.

In 2010, Shill received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Dexter: The Getaway.

References

↑ HBO. "The Sopranos cast and crew". Retrieved February 11, 2010.
↑ HBO. "The Wire episode "The Hunt" synopsis". Retrieved February 16, 2010.
↑ HBO. "The Wire episode "Undertow" synopsis". Retrieved February 16, 2010.
↑ HBO. "The Wire episode "All Prologue" synopsis". Retrieved February 16, 2010.
↑ HBO. "The Wire episode "All Due Respect" synopsis". Retrieved February 16, 2010.
↑ HBO. "Big Love episode "Easter" synopsis". Retrieved February 16, 2010.
↑ Steve Shill (director), Ricky Jay (writer) (2004-06-06). "Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking". Deadwood. Season 1. Episode 11. HBO.
↑ Steve Shill (director), Elizabeth Sarnoff (writer) (2005-03-20). "New Money". Deadwood. Season 2. Episode 3. HBO.
↑ Steve Shill (director and writer) (2005-04-10). "Something Very Expensive". Deadwood. Season 2. Episode 6. HBO.
↑ Steve Shill (director), Connie Brinkerhoff (writer) (2010-01-12). "Painkiller". The Good Wife. Season 1. Episode 12. CBS.

External links

Steve Shill at the Internet Movie Database

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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