Lesli Linka Glatter Explained

Lesli Linka Glatter
Birth Date:26 July 1953
Birth Place:Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation:Television director
Television:Twin Peaks
Gilmore Girls
Mad Men

Homeland
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Term Start:2021
Predecessor:Thomas Schlamme

Lesli Linka Glatter (born July 26, 1953) is an American film and television director.[1] She is best known for her work on the AMC drama series Mad Men and the Showtime series Homeland.[2] For her work in these two shows, she has received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations [3] and 7 Directors Guild of America Awards nominations, winning the latter 3 times.[4] [5] She has also received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Tales of Meeting and Parting (1985).[6]

Life and career

Glatter was born in Dallas and began her career as a dancer and choreographer. Her early choreography credits include William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A and the music video for Sheila E.'s "The Glamorous Life".[7] [8]

Her first film, Tales of Meeting and Parting (1984), produced by Sharon Oreck, was nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category.[9] She made the film as part of the American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women, of which she is an alumna.

In 1995, Glatter directed her first feature film, Now and Then, a coming-of-age story about four 12-year-old girls during an eventful summer in 1970.[10]

She has made several television films for cable networks, but the majority of her work is in television series. Glatter has received five nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for the Mad Men episode "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency" (2009), and the Homeland episodes "Q&A" (2012), "From A to B and Back Again" (2014) and "The Tradition of Hospitality" (2015) and "America First" (2016).[11]

In 2018 it was announced that Glatter would serve as chair on the advisory council for NBC's Female Forward. An annual initiative to give ten women directors the opportunity to shadow a director on one of NBC's scripted television series for up to three episodes. The experience concludes with an in-season commitment for each finalist to direct at least one episode of the series they shadow.[12]

On February 5, 2019, it was announced that Glatter would be credited as an executive producer alongside Bruna Papandrea and Charlotte Stoudt in the Netflix thriller series, Pieces of Her.[13] [14] [15] More recently, she and Cheryl Bloch launched Backyard Pictures with a first look deal at Universal Television.[16]

In 2021, Glatter was elected president of the Directors Guild of America.[17] [18]

In February 2023, she directed and executive produced Love & Death,[19] an HBO Max limited series written by David E. Kelley and starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons. It premiered on April 27, 2023.[20]

Partial filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998The Proposition[21]
1995Now and Then[22] [23]
1984Tales of Meeting and Parting

TV

!Year!Title!Role!Notes
2023 Love & Death5 episodes
2022Pieces of Her
2021The Morning Show
2017Six
2012–2020HomelandDirector
2012The Newsroom
2011True Blood
2011The Chicago Code
2010–2012Pretty Little Liars[24] [25]
2010Lie to Me
2010The Good Wife
2007–2010Mad Men
2007–2009House M.D.
2009The Mentalist
2009Weeds
2009The Unit
1995–2008ER
2008The Starter Wife
2008Swingtown
2007Heroes
2002–2006The West Wing
2005Grey's Anatomy
2005Revelations
2005Jonny Zero
2005Numb3rs
2005The O.C.
2002Presidio Med
2001Third Watch
2000–2001Gilmore Girls
2000Freaks and Geeks
2000Citizen Baines
1999–2001
1998Buddy Faro
1998Brooklyn South
1996Murder One
1994NYPD Blue
1994Birdland
1992Black Tie Affair
1992On the Air
1990–1991Twin Peaks
1990Brewster Place
1986Amazing Stories

Music Videos

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultclass=unsortableRef.
2021Directors Guild of America AwardsOutstanding Direction in a Drama SeriesHomeland - "Prisoners of War"
2020Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Directing for a Drama Series
2019Directors Guild of America AwardsOutstanding Direction in a Drama SeriesHomeland - "Paean to the People"[26]
2017Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Directing for a Drama SeriesHomeland - "America First"
2016Dorothy Arzner Directors Award[27]
Directors Guild of America AwardsOutstanding Direction in a Drama SeriesHomeland - "The Tradition of Hospitality"[28]
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Directing for a Drama Series
Outstanding Drama SeriesHomeland
2015Directors Guild of America AwardsOutstanding Direction in a Drama SeriesHomeland - "From A to B and Back Again"[29]
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Directing for a Drama Series
2014Directors Guild of America AwardsOutstanding Direction in a Drama SeriesHomeland - "The Star"[30]
2013Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Directing for a Drama SeriesHomeland - "Q&A"
Directors Guild of America AwardsOutstanding Direction in a Drama Series[31]
2010Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Directing for a Drama SeriesMad Men - "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency
Directors Guild of America AwardsOutstanding Direction in a Drama Series
1991Twin Peaks - "Episode 320006"
1985 Tales of Meeting and Parting

Notes and References

  1. Web site: How prolific director Lesli Linka Glatter is forging a way forward for women in film . 2023-04-06 . the Guardian . en.
  2. Web site: 2017-01-14 . From 'Homeland' to 'Mad Men,' Lesli Linka Glatter calls the shots . 2023-04-06 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  3. Web site: Nominations Search Awards Search . https://web.archive.org/web/20230408201728/https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominations/award-search?search_api_views_fulltext=Lesli+Linka+Glatter&submit=Search&field_celebrity_details_field_display_name=&field_show_details_field_nominee_show_nr_title=&field_nominations_year_op=%3E%3D&field_nominations_year%5Bvalue%5D=1949-01-01&field_nominations_year_1_op=%3C%3D&field_nominations_year_1%5Bvalue%5D=2023-01-01 . April 8, 2023 . 2023-04-06 . Television Academy . en.
  4. News: 2010-02-01 . Hurt Locker wins Directors' prize . en-GB . 2023-04-06.
  5. Web site: Homeland - DGA Award Episode . 2023-04-06 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  6. Web site: Academy Awards Search Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences . https://web.archive.org/web/20230408201940/https://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/getresults?query=%7B%22Nominee%22:%22Lesli%20Linka%20Glatter%22,%22Sort%22:%221-Nominee-Alpha%22,%22AwardShowNumberFrom%22:0,%22AwardShowNumberTo%22:0,%22Search%22:30%7D . April 8, 2023 . 2023-04-06 . awardsdatabase.oscars.org.
  7. Birnbaum . Debra . September 12, 2017 . Lesli Linka Glatter: 'It's Time That This Isn't an Issue Anymore'. Variety . Los Angeles .
  8. Web site: Lesli Linka Glatter. IMDb. September 30, 2018.
  9. News: List Of Academy Award Nominations . . February 7, 1985 . October 11, 2009 .
  10. News: From 'Homeland' to 'Mad Men,' Lesli Linka Glatter calls the shots. . January 14, 2017 . October 1, 2018 .
  11. Web site: Lesli Linka Glatter . . July 15, 2016.,
  12. Web site: NBC Sets Advisors, Submission Process for Female Forward Directors Initiative. Variety. January 9, 2018 . September 30, 2018.
  13. Web site: 'Pieces Of Her': Netflix Orders Novel-Based Series From Lesli Linka Glatter, Charlotte Stoudt & Bruna Papandrea. Pedersen. Erik. Andreeva. Nellie. Deadline Hollywood. February 5, 2019. February 6, 2019.
  14. Web site: Netflix Orders 'Pieces of Her' Thriller Series Based on Novel. Elise Sandberg. Bryn. The Hollywood Reporter. February 5, 2019. February 6, 2019.
  15. Web site: Netflix orders thriller series pieces of her from #1 international bestselling author Karin Slaughter. Netflix Media Center. February 6, 2019.
  16. Web site: Andreeva. Nellie. April 1, 2021. Lesli Linka Glatter & Cheryl Bloch Launch Production Company With First-Look Deal At Universal Television. April 2, 2021. Deadline Hollywood. en-US.
  17. News: Lesli Linka Glatter Elected President of Directors Guild of America. Littleton. Cynthia. Maddaus. Gene. September 18, 2021. September 19, 2021. Variety.
  18. Web site: Sonaiya . Kelly . September 19, 2021 . Lesli Linka Glatter is the new Directors Guild of America president . April 6, 2023 . . en-US.
  19. Web site: Rebecca . Aizen . Elizabeth Olsen Is Looking for an Affair — and 'Payback' — in True Crime Drama Love & Death . February 16, 2023 . April 6, 2023 . . en.
  20. Web site: Walsh . Charlotte . August 22, 2022 . See Elizabeth Olsen's Take on Candy Montgomery in First Look at Love and Death . . September 6, 2022 . Elizabeth Olsen plays accused killer Candy Montgomery in HBO Max's new miniseries Love and Death, which is set to premiere in 2023. . August 22, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220822200039/https://www.eonline.com/news/1342983/see-elizabeth-olsens-take-on-candy-montgomery-in-first-look-at-love-and-death . live.
  21. News: Holden . Stephen . Stephen Holden . March 27, 1998 . FILM REVIEW; Take a Number, Please: One Very Busy Confessional . en-US . . April 6, 2023 . 0362-4331.
  22. News: Gates . Anita . October 29, 1995 . TAKING THE CHILDREN;And Then She Grew Up to Be Demi Moore . en-US . . April 6, 2023 . 0362-4331.
  23. Web site: John . Anderson . October 20, 1995 . MOVIE REVIEW : Female Bonding in a Fragmented 'Now' . April 6, 2023 . . en-US.
  24. Web site: BBC Three - Pretty Little Liars, Series 1, Pilot . 2023-04-06 . BBC . en-GB.
  25. Web site: BBC Three - Pretty Little Liars, Series 1, The Jenna Thing . 2023-04-06 . BBC . en-GB.
  26. Web site: Jonathan . Handel. February 2, 2019 . 'Roma's' Alfonso Cuaron Takes Top Honor at DGA Awards . April 6, 2023 . . en-US.
  27. Web site: The 2017 Crystal + Lucy Awards . October 1, 2018 . Women In Film.
  28. Web site: Kilday . Gregg . February 6, 2016 . 2016 DGA Awards: The Complete Winners List . April 6, 2023 . . en-US.
  29. Web site: Kilday . Gregg . 2015-02-07 . DGA Awards: 'Birdman's' Alejandro Inarritu Takes Top Film Honors . April 6, 2023 . . en-US.
  30. Web site: January 25, 2014 . DGA Awards: The Winners . April 6, 2023 . . en-US.
  31. Web site: Kilday . Aaron Couch,Gregg . Couch . Aaron . Kilday . Gregg . February 2, 2013 . DGA Awards: Ben Affleck Named Best Director for 'Argo' . April 6, 2023 . . en-US.