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Jessica Yu

Jessica Yu

Director · Born February 14, 1966 · New York City, New York, USA

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Jessica Yu (Chinese: 虞琳敏; pinyin: Yú Línmǐn) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1996 for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012) is based on Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been Misconception (2014), ForEveryone.Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017). In 2019, Yu was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the Fosse/Verdon episode "Glory". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Yu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed 44

2010s

  1. 2019

    The Morning Show

    Director

    80

  2. Stumptown

    Director

    74

  3. Bluff City Law

    Director

  4. Fosse/Verdon

    Director

    77
  5. 2018

    The Rookie

    Director

    81

  6. Sorry for Your Loss

    Director

  7. 2017

    Ten Days in the Valley

    Director

  8. Maria Bamford: Old Baby

    Director

    70

  9. 13 Reasons Why

    Director

    74
  10. 2016

    Pure Genius

    Director

    70

  11. This Is Us

    Director

    86

  12. Billions

    Director

    82

  13. Foreveryone.net

    Director

  14. 2015

    American Crime

    Director

    74
  15. 2014

    The Affair

    Director

    76

  16. Misconception

    Director

  17. 2012

    Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas

    Director

  18. Meet Mr Toilet

    Director

  19. 2011

    American Horror Story

    Director

    80

  20. Last Call at the Oasis

    Director

1990s

  1. 1999

    The West Wing

    Director

    87
  2. 1998

    The Living Museum

    Director

  3. 1996

    Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien

    Director

  4. Better Late

    Director

  5. 1994

    ER

    Director

    79

Wrote 5

2000s

  1. 2008

    Ping Pong Playa

    Writer

  2. 2007

    Protagonist

    Writer

  3. 2004

    In the Realms of the Unreal

    Writer

    72

1990s

  1. 1996

    Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien

    Writer

  2. Better Late

    Writer

Produced 4

2010s

  1. 2019

    Bluff City Law

    Executive Producer

  2. 2017

    13 Reasons Why

    Consulting Producer

    74
  3. 2014

    Misconception

    Producer

1990s

  1. 1996

    Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien

    Producer

Edited 3

2000s

  1. 2007

    Protagonist

    Editor

1990s

  1. 1996

    Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien

    Editor

  2. Better Late

    Editor

Appearances3

2000s

  1. 2008

    Capturing Reality

    Self

1990s

  1. 1993

    The Jon Stewart Show

    Self - Guest · 1 episode