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Scott Winant
Occupation(s)	Television director, television producer
Years active	1982–present

Scott Winant /ˈwaɪnənt/ is an American television director and producer. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and Producers Guild of America. Since 1996, Winant's production company, Twilight Time Films, has sold dozens of television projects to all the major networks. He is the son of character actor H.M. Wynant and casting director Ethel Winant.

Filmography

Film

Producer

The Initiation (1984)

Director

'Til There Was You (1997)
The Journey (TBR)

Television

TV movies

Year	Title	Director	Producer
1982	World War II	No	Associate
1982	Paper Dolls	No	Associate
1987	J.Edgar Hoover	No	Co-Producer
2000	Sherman's March	Yes	Executive
2001	Honey Vicarro	No	Executive
2002	Georgetown	Yes	No
2003	No Place Like Home	Yes	No
2009	Body Politic	Yes	Executive
2015	Breed	Yes	Executive

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Notes
1983	The Powers of Matthew Star	No	Associate	Episode: "Matthew Star D.O.A."
1985-1985	The Insiders	No	Co-Producer	8 episodes
1988-1991	Thirtysomething	Yes	Yes	Director of 9 episodes
1994	Earth 2	Yes	No	Episode: "First Contact"
1994-1995	My So-Called Life	Yes	Co-Executive	Director of 3 episodes
1998	Significant Others	Yes	No	2 episodes
1998-1999	Cupid	Yes	Executive	Director of 2 episodes
1999	Get Real	Yes	Executive	Director of episode "Pilot"
	Anna Says	No	Executive
	Once and Again	Yes	No	Episode: "A Dream Deferred"
2001	The West Wing	Yes	No	Episode: "The Leadership Breakfast"
2001	First Years	Yes	No
2003	Dead Like Me	Yes	Consulting	Episode: "Pilot"
	Carnivale	Yes	Executive	Director of 2 episodes
	The Shield	Yes	No	Episode: "Barnstormers"
2004-2006	Huff	Yes	Executive	Director of 7 episodes
2007	Hidden Palms	Yes	Executive	Director of 2 episodes
	Californication	Yes	Executive	Director of 4 episodes
	Women's Murder Club	Yes	No
2008-2014	True Blood	Yes	No	13 episodes
2009	Men of a Certain Age	Yes	Executive	Director of 2 episodes
2009	Trust Me	Yes	No	Episode: "What's the Rush?"
2010	Lone Star	Yes	No	Episode: "Unveiled"
2010-2011	Breaking Bad	Yes	No	2 episodes^[1]
2011	The Playboy Club	Yes	No	Episode: "The Scarlet Bunny"
2012	Awake	Yes	No	Episode: "That's Not My Penguin"
2013	Save Me	Yes	Executive	Director of 3 episodes
2014	Rake	Yes	No	Episode: "A Close Shave"
	Resurrection	Yes	No	Episode: "Home"
	Fargo	Yes	No	2 episodes
	Wild Card	Yes	No	Episode: "Pilot"
2015	Agent Carter	Yes	No	Episode: "Time and Tide"
	Grace and Frankie	Yes	No	Episode: "The Credit Cards"
	The Brink	Yes	No	Episode: "Sticky Wicket"
	The Affair	Yes	No	Episode: #2.10"
2015-2016	Good Girls Revolt	Yes	Executive	Director of 3 episodes
2016	Better Call Saul	Yes	No	Episode: "Amarillo"
	Preacher	Yes	No	Episode: "The Possibilities"
	Outcast	Yes	No	Episode: "What Lurks Within"
2017	Gypsy	Yes	No	2 episodes
2017	Shut Eye	Yes	No	Episode: "We're Not in Kansas Anymore"
2018	Sacred Lies	Yes	Executive	Director of 4 episodes
2022	The Thing About Pam	Yes	Executive	Director of 2 episodes

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1988	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Drama Series	Thirtysomething	Won
1989		Outstanding Drama Series		Nominated
1989		Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series		Nominated
1990		Outstanding Drama Series		Nominated
1990		Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series		Won
1991	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Drama Series		Nominated
1991	Directors Guild of America Award	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series' - Night		Nominated
1995	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series	My So-Called Life	Nominated
2005	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series	Huff	Nominated

References

External links

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
1950s	Jack Smight for "Eddie" (1959)
1960s	Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (1960) George Schaefer for Macbeth (1961) Franklin J. Schaffner for The Defenders (1962) Stuart Rosenberg for "The Madman" (1963) Tom Gries for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964) Paul Bogart for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965) Sydney Pollack for "The Game" (1966) Alex Segal for Death of a Salesman (1967) Paul Bogart for "Dear Friends" (1968) David Greene for "The People Next Door" (1969)
1970s	Paul Bogart for "Shadow Game" (1970) Daryl Duke for "The Day the Lion Died" (1971) Alexander Singer for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" (1972) Jerry Thorpe for "An Eye for an Eye" (1973) Robert Butler for "Part III" (1974) Bill Bain for "A Sudden Storm" (1975) David Greene for "Part I: Chapters 1 & 2" (Rich Man, Poor Man) (1976) David Greene for "Part 1" (Roots) (1977) Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978) Jackie Cooper for "Pilot" (The White Shadow) (1979)
1980s	Roger Young for "Cop" (1980) Robert Butler for "Hill Street Station"(1981) Harry Harris for "To Soar and Never Falter" (1982) Jeff Bleckner for "Life in the Minors" (1983) Corey Allen for "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" (1984) Karen Arthur for "Heat" (1985) Georg Stanford Brown for "Parting Shots" (1986) Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot" (L.A. Law) (1987) Mark Tinker for "Weigh In, Way Out" (1988) Robert Altman for "The Boiler Room" (1989)
1990s	Thomas Carter for "Promises to Keep" / Scott Winant for "The Go-Between" (1990) Thomas Carter for "In Confidence" (1991) Eric Laneuville for "All God's Children" (1992) Barry Levinson for "Gone for Goode" (1993) Daniel Sackheim for "Tempest in a C-Cup" (1994) Mimi Leder for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995) Jeremy Kagan for "Leave of Absence" (1996) Mark Tinker for "Where's 'Swaldo?" (1997) Mark Tinker for "Pilot" (Brooklyn South) / Paris Barclay for "Lost Israel, Part 2" (1998) Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)
2000s	Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (The West Wing) (2000) Thomas Schlamme for "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I" & "Part II" (2001) Alan Ball for "Pilot" (Six Feet Under) (2002) Christopher Misiano for "Twenty Five" (2003) Walter Hill for "Deadwood" (2004) J. J. Abrams for "Pilot" (Lost) (2005) Jon Cassar for "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m." (2006) Alan Taylor for "Kennedy and Heidi" (2007) Greg Yaitanes for "House's Head" (2008) Rod Holcomb for "And in the End..." (2009)
2010s	Steve Shill for "The Getaway" (2010) Martin Scorsese for "Boardwalk Empire" (2011) Tim Van Patten for "To the Lost" (2012) David Fincher for "Chapter 1" (2013) Cary Joji Fukunaga for "Who Goes There" (2014) David Nutter for "Mother's Mercy" (2015) Miguel Sapochnik for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016) Reed Morano for "Offred" (2017) Stephen Daldry for "Paterfamilias" (2018) Jason Bateman for "Reparations" (2019)
2020s	Andrij Parekh for "Hunting" (2020) Jessica Hobbs for "War" (2021) Hwang Dong-hyuk for "Red Light, Green Light" (2022) Mark Mylod for "Connor's Wedding" (2023)

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