Awards & Winners

Joel Gallen

Joel Gallen is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and founder and president of Tenth Planet Productions. Gallen has produced and directed many live television events and has won numerous awards, including an Emmy, Peabody, PGA and DGA award for producing and directing "America: A Tribute to Heroes" immediately following the 9/11 attacks. He has executive produced and directed the last ten Comedy Central Roasts, including the most recent roast of Roseanne. Gallen has directed and produced more than a dozen Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. From 2007 through 2010, Gallen was the executive producer and director of CNN Heroes. Gallen is the executive producer of two prime-time reality-competition series: The Sing-Off, the group a cappella competition series,; and America’s Best Dance Crew, the reality-competition series for MTV. Gallen was an executive at MTV in the early 90's where he produced The MTV Video Music Awards for 5 years and created The MTV Movie Awards. He went on to produce 14 of the first 15 MTV Movie Awards shows between 1992 and 2006. Gallen conceived and directed many of the Movie Award short comedic films during that period that featured Ben Stiller, Tom Cruise, Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon, Vince Vaughn and many others.

Awards by Joel Gallen

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joel Gallen.

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials The 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series Or Special Stand Up to Cancer

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Comedy-Variety or Music Special The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert
Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Musical Variety The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special Chris Rock: Never Scared

2002


PGA Visionary Award
Honored for : America: A Tribute to Heroes
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special
Honored for : America: A Tribute to Heroes

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special America: A Tribute to Heroes
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Variety, Music or Comedy Program America: A Tribute to Heroes

2001


Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Musical Variety
Honored for : America: A Tribute to Heroes
(For multiple episodes.)

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Musical Variety America: A Tribute to Heroes
For multiple episodes.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequences Rolling Stone '93: The Year In Review