Glenn Weiss is an Americanproducer anddirector of television and live events. He has won 14Emmy Awards and eightDirectors Guild of America awards as a director and producer for various awards shows and reality shows including theTony Awards,Kennedy Center Honors, andAcademy Awards.
Weiss was raised in aJewish family.[1] He graduated from theUniversity of Maryland in 1983.[2]
Weiss started his career working at theWashington, D.C., bureau ofCNN while still a full-time University of Maryland student before becoming a producer and director atFox affiliateWTTG. His first national credit wasAmerica's Most Wanted, followed by other shows includingStuds,Legends of the Hidden Temple,Gladiators 2000, and talk shows hosted byJane Pratt andTempestt Bledsoe in the years since.
As of 2018, Weiss has won 14Emmy Awards,[3] and, as of 2015, fiveDirectors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement,[4] and has been nominated forProducers Guild of America Awards.[2]
Weiss has also directed numerous televised events, including theTony Awards,Academy Awards,[5] for which he has garnered three directing Primetime Emmys and has directed and producedPrimetime Emmy Awards.[6] Other directing credits include theKennedy Center Honors,CableACE Awards,Billboard Music Awards,BET Awards,Peter Pan Live!,The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage!,Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards,Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, thePrimetime Emmy Awards,Live from Lincoln Center, and theAmerican Music Awards. He also directed the2020 DNC.
Weiss was the director of the94th Academy Awards.[7] According to executive Rob Mills in a Variety article referring to the Will Smith and Chris Rock incident, “One quick shout out I want to give is to the director Glenn Weiss. I was in the truck with him in our control room on New Year’s Eve when Mariah Carey was having some vocal issues singing. I was with him when they did the wrong envelope on ‘La La Land’ and I was with him last night. And there is nobody who keeps a cooler head and just keeps the show moving along. While obviously, knowing exactly what's happening. He really is the best in these situations.”.[8]
During the70th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 18th, 2018, Weiss made headlines by proposing to long-time girlfriend Jan Svendsen during his acceptance speech forOutstanding Directing for a Variety Special for his work on that year'sAcademy Awards. He proposed by saying, "You wonder why I don’t like to call you my girlfriend? Because I want to call you my wife." The ring previously belonged to his mother, who had died two and a half weeks prior. The moment was widely shared on social media platformsTwitter andInstagram.[9][10] They got married on 14 February 2023, with Speaker EmeritaNancy Pelosi officiating.[11]
...and won the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety in 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 for the 61st, 64th, 65th, 66th, and 67th Annual Tony Awards.
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