Awards & Winners

Glenn A. Jordan

Date of Birth 05-April-1936
Place of Birth San Antonio
(Bexar County, United States of America, Comal County, Texas, Area code 210)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Glenn Jordan
Profession Television Director, Television Producer, Film director
Glenn Jordan is an American television director and producer. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Jordan directed multiple episodes of Family and has helmed numerous television movies, several based on real persons as diverse as Benjamin Franklin, George Armstrong Custer, Lucille Ball, Christa McAuliffe, and Karen Ann Quinlan. His directing credits include small-screen adaptions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Misérables, Hogan's Goat, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, A Streetcar Named Desire, O Pioneers!, and A Christmas Memory. Additional television directing credits include Heartsounds, Botticelli, Sarah, Plain and Tall, To Dance with the White Dog, Barbarians at the Gate, The Long Way Home, Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End, The Boys and Jane's House. Jordan has directed three feature films: Only When I Laugh, The Buddy System, and Mass Appeal. Jordan has been nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards and won four, for producing the miniseries Benjamin Franklin for producing and directing the Hallmark Hall of Fame production Promise and for executive producing the HBO production[ "Barbarians at the Gate"]. He won two New York area Emmys for the PBS series ["Actor's Choice"] and ["New York Television Theater"].He won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for Family and was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Specials or Movies for Television for Les Misérables. Three of his productions have won Peabody Awards.

Awards by Glenn A. Jordan

Check all the awards nominated and won by Glenn A. Jordan.

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special Hallmark Hall of Fame
To Dance with the White Dog
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie Hallmark Hall of Fame
To Dance with the White Dog

1993


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie
Honored for : Barbarians at the Gate

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special Barbarians at the Gate
Outstanding individual achievement in directing for a miniseries or a special
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie Barbarians at the Gate

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama or Comedy Special and Miniseries Sarah, Plain and Tall

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special Echoes in the Darkness

1987


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special
Honored for : Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or Special, Promise)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama or Comedy Special
Honored for : Promise

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special Hallmark Hall of Fame
Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or Special","Promise

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Dress Gray

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Special The Women's Room

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special Les Misérables
Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television Film/Miniseries Les Misérables

1976


Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series
Honored for : Family
(For episode Rites of Friendship)

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series Family
For episode Rites of Friendship

1975


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries
Honored for : Benjamin Franklin

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Drama Series Benjamin Franklin
The Ambassador
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Benjamin Franklin