Greenhill Alumna Wins Directors Guild of America Award

Greenhill alumna Lesli Linka Glatter `71 won her second Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series (Homeland, "From A to B and Back Again"). This is her fifth nomination.

Per the DGA website, her extensive filmography credits include the feature films Now and Then and The Proposition; the movies for television Into the Homeland and The Promise; the pilots for the series Pretty Little Liars and Gilmore Girls; and episodes of other series including The Newsroom, The Walking Dead, Ray Donovan, Masters of Sex, Justified, Nashville, Boss, True Blood, The Good Wife, Weeds, House, The West Wing, ER, and Freaks and Geeks. She also was the Co-Executive Producer/Director the seriesThe Chicago Code, The Playboy Club, and Citizen Baines. She is currently the Executive Director of the award-winning Showtime series Homeland.

Her numerous honors include a Cable ACE Best Picture nomination and a Humanitas Award nomination for her 1994 movie for television State of Emergency; DGA Award nominations for her direction of the 1991 Twin Peaks episode “32006” and the 2013 Homeland episode “The Star;” both DGA and Emmy Award nominations for her direction of the 2012 Homeland episode “Q&A;” and an Emmy Award nomination and a DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for the 2009 Mad Men episode “Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency.” She also recently received the Caucus Foundation Award and the Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal from the American Film Institute at the AFI Awards in June 2014.

A member of the DGA Board, Glatter also currently serves on the Western Directors Council, the PAC Leadership Council, and the Diversity Task Force. She also currently serves as an advisor for the Sundance Directors Lab. She has been a member of the Guild since 1985.
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