7 wins & 23 nominations
- 1994 Nominee CableACE
- Variety Special or Series
Shared with: Doug Herzog · Judy McGrath · Bruce Gowers · Troy Miller · Chris Connelly · Michael Dugan · Chris Kreski · John Riggi · Fred Wolf
- 2016 Nominee Daytime Emmy
- Outstanding Directing - Special Class
- 2024 Nominee DGA Award
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Specials
- 2014 Nominee DGA Award
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Specials
- 2010 Nominee DGA Award
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety
- 2002 Winner DGA Award
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety
For multiple episodes.Shared with: Beth McCarthy-Miller · Wendy Acey · Stefani Cohen · Gary Natoli · Christopher J. Kelly · Arthur Lewis · Lynn Finkel · Alan Breton · John Esposito · Rita Cossette · Denny Barry · Lionel Pasamonte · Harve Levine
- 2010 Nominee Primetime Emmy
- Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special
- 2002 Winner Peabody Award
- Winner
From the beginning of the program with Bruce Springsteen singing "My City in Ruins" to the closing moments with Willy Nelson leading a panoply of stars in singing "America, the Beautiful," America: A Tribute to Heroes is an exceptional salute to those lost in the events of September 11, 2001. Bare stages lit with hundreds of candles in New York, Los Angeles, and London provided the somber, unadorned setting for this unique program carried live, commercial free, by more than 30 radio, television and cable networks, including ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, PBS, UPN, the WB, BET, Comedy Central, Court TV, the Discovery Channel, E!, Fox Family, FX, HBO, HBO Latino, Lifetime, MTV, PAX, Showtime, Sundance Channel, Telemundo, TLC, TNN, TNT, Univision, and VH-1. A number of Westwood One and Clear Channel Communications radio affiliates also simulcast the special telethon, which raised more than $150 million for the victims of 9/11. Leading this unprecedented cross-network effort was Executive Producer and Director Joel Gallen, Coordinating Producers Michael Dempsey and Carol Donovan, Director Beth McCarthy, and Writers David Wild, Peggy Noonan, Phil Rosenthal, Bob Shrum, Anne Lewis, Eli Attie, Tom Fontana, Chris Connelly, Terry Edmonds, Marshall Herskovitz, Ed Zwick, David Leaf, Gene Pack and Bill Clark. Moving musical numbers alternated with equally moving tributes. Those performing included Springsteen, Tom Hanks, Stevie Wonder featuring Take 6, George Clooney, U2, Will Smith, Muhammad Ali, Faith Hill, Kelsey Grammer, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Jim Carrey, Enrique Iglesias, Neil Young, Cameron Diaz, Alicia Keys, Robin Williams, Limp Bizkit with John Rzeznik of The Goo Goo Dolls, Dennis Franz, Jimmy Smits, Billy Joel, Calista Flockhart and Dixie Chicks. All involved donated their talent and time, while ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX underwrote costs surrounding the production of this outpouring of honor for those lost on Sept. 11, 2001.Shared with: Ben Stiller · Bruce Springsteen · Sylvester Stallone · Take 6 · U2 · Eddie Vedder · Mark Wahlberg · Sela Ward · Don Was · Robin Williams · Stevie Wonder · Neil Young · Pope John Paul II · Eli Attie · Chris Connelly · Marshall Herskovitz · David Leaf · Ann F. Lewis · Peggy Noonan · David Wild · Edward Zwick · Mike Campbell · Robert Shrum · Muhammad Ali · Bill Clark · Terry Edmonds · Phil Rosenthal · Amy Brenneman · Wes Borland · Eugene Pack · Mariah Carey · Adam Clayton · Jim Carrey · Bono · Tom Fontana · Jon Bon Jovi · Beth McCarthy-Miller · Halle Berry · Sheryl Crow · Tom Cruise · Cindy Crawford · George Clooney · The Edge
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