Name Jeffrey Blitz Role Film director | Siblings Andy Blitz | |
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Books Mogana Inc: Org, Parts & Gadg, 1939 Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series Movies Rocket Science, Spellbound, Table 19, Lucky Similar People | ||
Filmmaker profiles from sundance channel jeffrey blitz
Jeffrey Blitz is an American film director, producer and screenwriter from Ridgewood, New Jersey. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his 2002 documentary, Spellbound and he won the Dramatic Directing Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for his 2007 film, Rocket Science.
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- Filmmaker profiles from sundance channel jeffrey blitz
- Meet the artists jeffrey blitz
- Personal life
- Filmography
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Blitz won the 2009 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, for The Office episode "Stress Relief".
Meet the artists jeffrey blitz
Personal life
Blitz was born to a Conservative Jewish family and raised in an upper-middle-class household in Ridgewood, New Jersey. His mother, a pediatrician, was an immigrant from Moisés Ville, Argentina, and his father was a research psychologist. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990 and a Master's degree in 1991 from Johns Hopkins University. In 1997, he graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His brother is comedy writer Andy Blitz.