Louis Horvitz

Broadcast Direction

Lou recently directed his 12th Academy Awards show. He recently added a fifth Emmy® Award to his mantel for his achievement in directing the Annual Academy Awards. He has received a total of eight Emmy nominations and four Emmy Awards for his Oscar® telecast work.

Horvitz just directed the most recent Emmy Awards (his 12th time) and completed his 15th stint directing both "The Kennedy Center Honors" and "The American Film Institute Life Achievement Award." This year, he completed his 11th year as executive producer-director of "An Evening of Stars" and directed "The 41st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards."

In a career that has spanned three decades, Horvitz has helmed numerous other high-profile programs including the "Daytime Emmy Awards," "The Kids Choice Awards," "CBS at 75," "Lifetime’s Achievement Awards: Women Changing the World," VH-1’s "DIVAS," "Macy’s July 4th Spectacular," "The 2004 MTV Movie Awards," "The Bad Boys of Comedy," "The VH-1 Concert for New York City" benefiting survivors of 9/11, and "U2 Half Time at the Superbowl."