Jason Woliner
Woliner in July 2011
Born	Jason Woliner (1980-06-01) June 1, 1980 (age 43) New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Director, writer, actor
Years active	1989–present

Jason Woliner is an American director,^[1] writer and a former child actor. He was the non-performing member of the comedy group Human Giant and directed the bulk of their output. After that, he directed, co-wrote, and acted as showrunner on the cult Adult Swim series Eagleheart starring Chris Elliott. Woliner has directed episodes of Fox's The Last Man on Earth, NBC's Parks and Recreation, and Comedy Central's Nathan for You and Jon Benjamin Has a Van, among others. In 2020, he directed Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

Early life and acting career

Woliner attended Pelham Memorial High School and for higher study at Sarah Lawrence College from 1998 to 2000 before dropping out to pursue a directing career.^[2]

Directing career

After leaving school, Woliner began making films and videos, both on his own and with comedians in New York, which led to the formation of Human Giant. The first three Human Giant videos ("Shutterbugs", "Illusionators", and the "Shittiest Mixtape Boombox Blast") caught the eyes of executives at MTV, who offered the group a pilot. The show ran for two seasons.

He has collaborated with writer-performer Brett Gelman on a series of horror/comedy specials for Adult Swim. The first of these, titled Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends, aired in April 2014, and the second special, titled Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family, aired in February 2015. The third special, Brett Gelman's Dinner in America, aired in July 2016. Woliner and Gelman wrote the specials together; Gelman stars and Woliner directed.

In 2020, he directed the comedy film Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.^[3]

In 2023, Woliner directed Paul T. Goldman, a hybrid documentary-comedy series for Peacock.^[4]

Filmography

Film

Films directed, written, or produced by Jason Woliner
Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2006	Other Music	Yes	No	No
2007	An Evening with P. Oswalt	Yes	No	No
2014	Food Club	Yes	Yes	Yes
2020	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm^[5]	Yes	No	No

Acting roles by Jason Woliner
Year	Title	Role
1989	Weekend at Bernie's	Bratty Kid
1990	Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift	Matt
1996	Bullet	Young Boy #3 - Buck Teeth
2014	Food Club	Captain Woliner

Special thanks

Origin Story (2018)
Mister America (2019)

Television

Television work by Jason Woliner
Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Notes
1989–91	Shining Time Station	No	No	No	No	Matt Jones; 22 episodes
2005–10	Shutterbugs	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	11 episodes
2007–08	Human Giant	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	14 episodes
2009	The Electric Company	Yes	No	No	No	Episode: "Scent of a Human"
	Delocated	No	No	No	Yes	Episode: "Pilot"
	Raaaaaaaandy!	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	3 episodes
2009–10	Parks and Recreation	Yes	No	No	No	3 episodes
2010	Funny or Die Presents	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6 episodes
2010	Players	Yes	No	Yes	No	10 episodes
2011	Saturday Night Live	Yes	Yes	No	No	Episode: "Ed Helms/Paul Simon"
	Jon Benjamin Has a Van	Yes	No	No	No	2 episodes
	Eagleheart	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	25 episodes^[6]
2012	New Girl	Yes	No	No	No	Episode: "Menzies"
2013	Good Morning Tri-State	Yes	No	No	No	Television short
2013	Nathan for You	Yes	No	No	No	2 episodes
2014	Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends	Yes	Yes	No	No	Television short
2014	Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories	No	Yes	No	No	7 episodes
2015	The Jack and Triumph Show	No	No	Yes	No	6 episodes
	W/ Bob & David	Yes	No	No	No	4 episodes
	Master of None	No	Yes	Yes	No	10 episodes
2015–18	The Last Man on Earth	Yes	No	No	No	12 episodes
2019	What We Do in the Shadows	Yes	No	No	No	2 episodes
2019	Trade Show Show	Yes	No	No	No	6 episodes
2023	Paul T. Goldman	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	6 episodes^[7]

TV specials by Jason Woliner
Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor
2009	Patton Oswalt: My Weakness Is Strong	Yes	No	No	Yes
2010	Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening	Yes	No	No	Yes
2010	MTV Movie & TV Awards	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2011	Patton Oswalt: Finest Hour	Yes	No	No	No
2012	Aziz Ansari: Dangerously Delicious	Yes	No	No	No

References

External links

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

1950s

An American in Paris – Vincente Minnelli and Arthur Freed (1951)
With a Song in My Heart – Walter Lang and Lamar Trotti (1952)
No Award (1953)
Carmen Jones – Otto Preminger (1954)
Guys and Dolls – Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Samuel Goldwyn (1955)
The King and I – Walter Lang, Charles Brackett, and Darryl F. Zanuck (1956)
Les Girls – George Cukor, Saul Chaplin, and Sol C. Siegel (1957)
Gigi – Vincente Minnelli and Arthur Freed / Auntie Mame – Morton DaCosta (1958)
Porgy and Bess – Otto Preminger and Samuel Goldwyn / Some Like It Hot – Billy Wilder (1959)

1960s

Song Without End – George Cukor, Charles Vidor, and William Goetz / The Apartment – Billy Wilder (1960)
West Side Story – Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise / A Majority of One – Mervyn LeRoy (1961)
The Music Man – Morton DaCosta / That Touch of Mink – Delbert Mann, Robert Arthur, Martin Melcher, Edward Muhl, and Stanley Shapiro (1962)
Tom Jones – Tony Richardson, Michael Balcon, Michael Holden, and Oscar Lewenstein (1963)
My Fair Lady – George Cukor and Jack L. Warner (1964)
The Sound of Music – Robert Wise (1965)
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming – Norman Jewison (1966)
The Graduate – Mike Nichols, Joseph E. Levine, and Lawrence Turman (1967)
Oliver! – Carol Reed and John Woolf (1968)
The Secret of Santa Vittoria – Stanley Kramer and George Glass (1969)

1970s

M*A*S*H – Robert Altman and Ingo Preminger (1970)
Fiddler on the Roof – Norman Jewison (1971)
Cabaret – Bob Fosse and Cy Feuer (1972)
American Graffiti – George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Gary Kurtz (1973)
The Longest Yard – Robert Aldrich and Albert S. Ruddy (1974)
The Sunshine Boys – Herbert Ross and Ray Stark (1975)
A Star Is Born – Frank Pierson and Jon Peters (1976)
The Goodbye Girl – Herbert Ross and Ray Stark (1977)
Heaven Can Wait – Warren Beatty and Buck Henry (1978)
Breaking Away – Peter Yates and Steve Tesich (1979)

1980s

Coal Miner's Daughter – Michael Apted and Bernard Schwartz (1980)
Arthur – Steve Gordon (1981)
Tootsie – Sydney Pollack and Dick Richards (1982)
Yentl – Barbra Streisand, Larry DeWaay, and Rusty Lemorande (1983)
Romancing the Stone – Robert Zemeckis and Michael Douglas (1984)
Prizzi's Honor – John Huston and John Foreman (1985)
Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen and Robert Greenhut (1986)
Hope and Glory – John Boorman and Michael Dryhurst (1987)
Working Girl – Mike Nichols and Douglas Wick (1988)
Driving Miss Daisy – Bruce Beresford, Lili Fini Zanuck, and Richard D. Zanuck (1989)

1990s

Green Card – Peter Weir (1990)
Beauty and the Beast – Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, and Don Hahn (1991)
The Player – Robert Altman, David Brown, Michael Tolkin, and Nick Wechsler (1992)
Mrs. Doubtfire – Chris Columbus, Marsha Garces, Mark Radcliffe, and Robin Williams (1993)
The Lion King – Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, and Don Hahn (1994)
Babe – Chris Noonan, Catherine Barber, Philip Hearnshaw, Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell, and Daphne Paris (1995)
Evita – Alan Parker and Robert Stigwood (1996)
As Good as It Gets – James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, and Kristi Zea (1997)
Shakespeare in Love – John Madden, Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick (1998)
Toy Story 2 – John Lasseter, Karen Robert Jackson, and Helene Plotkin (1999)

2000s

Almost Famous – Cameron Crowe and Ian Bryce (2000)
Moulin Rouge! – Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron, and Martin Brown (2001)
Chicago – Rob Marshall, Meryl Poster, Martin Richards, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, and Craig Zadan (2002)
Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola and Ross Katz (2003)
Sideways – Alexander Payne and Michael London (2004)
Walk the Line – James Mangold, James Keach, and Cathy Konrad (2005)
Dreamgirls – Bill Condon and Laurence Mark (2006)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Tim Burton, John Logan, Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, and Richard D. Zanuck (2007)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona – Woody Allen, Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures, Stephen Tenenbaum, and Gareth Wiley (2008)
The Hangover – Todd Phillips and Daniel Goldberg (2009)

2010s

The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko, Gary Gilbert, Jeff Levy-Hinte, and Celine Rattray (2010)
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius and Thomas Langmann (2011)
Les Misérables – Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh (2012)
American Hustle – David O. Russell, Charles Roven, Megan Ellison, Richard Suckle, and Jonathan Gordon (2013)
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales, and Scott Rudin (2014)
The Martian – Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg, Michael Schaefer, Aditya Sood, and Mark Huffam (2015)
La La Land – Damien Chazelle, Fred Berger, Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt (2016)
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig, Eli Bush, Evelyn O'Neill, and Scott Rudin (2017)
Green Book – Peter Farrelly, Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Hayes Currie, and Nick Vallelonga (2018)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino, David Heyman, and Shannon McIntosh (2019)

2020s
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – Jason Woliner, Sacha Baron Cohen, Monica Levinson, and Anthony Hines (2020) West Side Story – Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, and Kevin McCollum (2021) The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, and Peter Czernin (2022)

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