David Nutter just received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Television Direction.  His amazing track record of directing pilots that launched successful series includes:  The Time Traveler’s Wife, Deception, Containment, The Flash, Arrow, The Mentalist, Supernatural, Without a Trace, Smallville, Millennium and Roswell, among many others.  Of the 24 pilots Nutter has directed, 21 were picked up to series and were responsible for 1,554 episodes of television. 

In 2015, he won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series for the critically praised Game of Thrones episode “Mother’s Mercy”.  Nutter has received six DGA Award nominations starting in 2006 for his directorial achievements on episodic series The Sopranos, then Entourage (2007), the limited series The Pacific (2010), and three nominations for his acclaimed work on Game of Thrones (2013, 2015, 2019).  

Nutter has also earned four Emmy nominations for his exceptional directorial work on several critically acclaimed shows including:  The X-Files, The Sopranos, The Pacific and Game of Thrones, and was honored with his first Emmy in 2002 for the riveting Band of Brothers miniseries that still resonates as a masterpiece today.