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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Nonfiction Programming

Primetime Emmy Award

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming is one of the awards presented every year at the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony.

Check all the winners of Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Nonfiction Programming presented under Primetime Emmy Award since 2003 .


Jehane Noujaim

Honored for : The Square

Nominations 2014 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Bertram van Munster The Amazing Race
Part Like The Red Sea
Brannon Braga Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Standing Up In The Milky Way
Craig Spirko Project Runway
Sky's The Limit
Ken Fuchs Shark Tank
Episode 501
Jehane Noujaim The Square

Robert Trachtenberg

Honored for : American Masters
(Mel Brooks: Make A Noise)

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Trachtenberg American Masters
Mel Brooks: Make A Noise
Rory Kennedy Ethel
Alex Gibney Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Glenn Weiss Survivor
Live Finale And Reunion (Caramoan: Fans Vs. Favorites)
Michael Simon Survivor
Live Finale And Reunion (Philippines)

Martin Scorsese

Honored for : George Harrison: Living in the Material World

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Martin Scorsese George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Bruce Sinofsky Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Joe Berlinger Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Craig Spirko Project Runway
Finale (Part 2)
Bertram van Munster The Amazing Race
Let Them Drink Their Haterade (Lake Manyara, Tanzania)
Robert B. Weide American Masters
Woody Allen: A Documentary

Josh Fox

Honored for : Gasland

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Josh Fox Gasland
Martin Scorsese American Masters
A Letter to Elia
Kent Jones American Masters
A Letter to Elia
Bertram van Munster The Amazing Race
You Don't Get Paid Unless You Win
Paul Starkman Top Chef
Give Me Your Huddled Masses
Fenton Bailey Becoming Chaz
Randy Barbato Becoming Chaz

Barak Goodman

Honored for : American Experience
(My Lai)

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Barak Goodman American Experience
My Lai
Bill Jones Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut)
Lust For Glory
Benjamin Timlett Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut)
Lust For Glory
Bertram van Munster The Amazing Race
I Think We're Fighting The Germans, Right?
Amy Rice By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
Alicia Sams By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
Dan Reed Dispatches
Terror in Mumbai

Marina Zenovich

Honored for : Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Steve Hryniewicz Top Chef
The Last Supper
Paul Starkman Project Runway
Finale (Part 1)
Marina Zenovich Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Bertram van Munster The Amazing Race
Don't Let A Cheese Hit Me
Christopher Wilcha This American Life
John Smith
Adam Beckman This American Life
John Smith

Christopher Wilcha, Adam Beckman

Honored for : This American Life
(Escape)

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Christopher Wilcha This American Life
Escape
Adam Beckman This American Life
Escape
Tony Sacco Project Runway
En Garde!
Ken Burns The War
Pride of Our Nation
Lynn Novick The War
Pride of Our Nation
Bertram van Munster The Amazing Race
Honestly, They Have Witch Powers Or Something
Tricia Regan Autism: The Musical

Spike Lee

Honored for : When the Levees Broke

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kevin Burns Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
Christopher Wilcha This American Life
#104 God's Close-Up
Lauren Greenfield Thin
Rory Kennedy Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Spike Lee When the Levees Broke

Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill

Honored for : Baghdad ER

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Shari Cookson All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise
Jon Alpert Baghdad ER
Matthew O'Neill Baghdad ER
Ewa Ewart Children of Beslan
Leslie Woodhead Children of Beslan
Martin Scorsese American Masters
Samuel D. Pollard American Masters

James Miller

Honored for : Death in Gaza
(Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming)

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
James Miller Death in Gaza
Bruce Gowers American Idol
Finale
Glenn Weiss The Apprentice
Season 2 Finale
Patrick Higgins Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
The Dore Family
Ken Burns Unforgivable Blackness

Kate Davis

Honored for : Jockey

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jamie Johnson Born Rich
Becky Smith Queer Eye
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt American Experience
Tupperware
Susan Lacy American Masters
Kate Davis Jockey

Stanley Nelson Jr.

Honored for : American Experience

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Stanley Nelson Jr. American Experience
James Cameron Expedition: Bismarck
James Cameron's
Gary Johnstone Expedition: Bismarck
James Cameron's
Ed Bell Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Thomas Lennon Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Bruce Gowers American Idol
Aaron Lubarsky Journeys with George
Alexandra Pelosi Journeys with George
James Bobin Da Ali G Show