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 returned the next season, directing the season premiere and the second episode. He also directed the season premiere as well as the season finale of the seventh season. In 2021, he directed episodes of the TV series adaptation of The Mosquito Coast and the miniseries Station Eleven.
Biography Jeremy Podeswa was born in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario. He is Jewish, and his Polish Jewish father, a painter, was the only one of his immediate family to make it out of the German Nazi camps alive. He attended the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto before graduating from Ryerson University's Film Studies program"Jeremy Podeswa" Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 August 2011 and the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies (now the AFI Conservatory). He has recently identified as queer and states that it is only one part of his identity:
He was part of a loosely affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
In 1983, 21-year-old Podeswa used his student loans to make his first short film, titled David Roche Talks to You About Love —a 22-minute performance about a gay actor and his views on love. The aspiring director then took jobs as a production assistant, assistant editor and a publicist before he started directing his own films. During the eighties and nineties when he just started his career, he made Canadian indie shorts and features such as The Five Senses, Eclipse, and Fugitive Pieces (2008), loosely based on a novel by Anne Michael, which was awarded the opening night slot at the 2007 International Film Festival. The film has since received critical acclaim. Podeswa has recently made a name for himself directing critically acclaimed and commercially successful television shows, such as Boardwalk Empire, Six Feet Under, True Blood, Dexter, Game of Thrones and Queer as Folk.
Awards Altogether, Jeremy Podeswa has won 20 awards while having 34 nominations for his expert works. Podeswa was given two Genie Awards in 2000 as Best Director of The Five Senses, which was awarded Best Picture.
In addition, he won an award at NewFest: New York's LGBT Film Festival for the Best Short. Podeswa won an award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in 2008 for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. In addition he won Best Short at the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. His most recent accomplishments occurred in 2015 and 2018, where he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Direction of a Drama Series with Game of Thrones.
Filmography Television Year Title Notes 2001–2004 Queer as Folk 4 episodes 2001–2005 Six Feet Under 5 episodes 2002 The Chris Isaak ShowEpisode: "Just Us Kids" 2003–2005 Carnivàle 4 episodes 2003 Nip/Tuck 2 episodes 2004 The L Word Episode: "Lagrimas de Oro" 2004 Wonderfalls Episode: "Totem Mole" 2005 Rome Episode: "Utica" 2005 Into the West Episode: "Ghost Dance" 2005 Commander in Chief Episode: "Rubie Dubidoux and the Brown Bound Express" 2007 Dexter Episode: "That Night, A Forest Grew" 2007 John from Cincinnati Episode: "His Visit: Day Six" 2007 The RichesEpisode: "This Is Your Brain on Drugs" 2007–2010 The Tudors 8 episodes 2009 Empire StateTV short 2009 Weeds Episode: "Where the Sidewalk Ends" 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 Episode: "I Wish I Was the Moon" 2012 Homeland Episode: "In Memoriam" 2012–2013 American Horror Story: Asylum 1 episode 2012–2013 The Newsroom 2 episodes 2013 The Walking Dead Episode: "Dead Weight" 2013 Ray Donovan Episode: "Road Trip" 2014 American Horror Story: Coven 1 episode 2015–2017 Game of Thrones 6 episodes Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated - Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series 2015 True Detective Episode: "Down Will Come" 2018 Here and Now 3 episodes 2018 The Handmaid's Tale 2 episodes 2019 The Loudest Voice Miniseries; 2 episodes 2019 On Becoming a God in Central Florida Episode: "The Gloomy-Zombies" 2021 The Mosquito Coast Episode: "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" 2021 Station Eleven 3 episodes, also executive producer 2024 3 Body Problem 2 episodes The New Look 2 episodes
Films Year Title Notes 1983 David Roche Talks to You About Love 1985 In the Name of Bobby 1986 Nion in the Kabaret de La Vita Nominated - Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama 1992 Standards 1993 Walls 1993 Caveman Rainbow 1994 Eclipse 1999 The Five Senses Won – Genie Award for Best Achievement in DirectionNominated – Genie Award for Best Motion Picture 2000 24fps 2001 Touch 2007 Fugitive Pieces
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