Matthew Weiner

Matthew Weiner ( born June 29, 1965 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American screenwriter, director and television producer. He is the inventor of the television series Mad Men, for which he is also the runner worked as executive producer, head writer and show. Weiner also worked as a writer and producer for the successful series The Sopranos. For his work he was eight times awarded the Emmy, five years in a row in the category " Outstanding Drama Series" ( The Sopranos in 2007, Mad Men, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 ), as well as three-time Golden Globe ( Mad Men 2008, 2009, 2010).

Life

Weiner comes from a Jewish-American family and grew up in Los Angeles. He studied at the University of Southern California. After various jobs as a screenwriter (among others for the sitcom Becker) in 2000, he developed a script for a pilot episode of the series Mad Men So he applied to David Chase, the producer of the Sopranos. Although Chase did not take the series, but dedicated Weiner as a writer for The Sopranos. Weiner has been involved in twelve screenplays, including the two Emmy -nominated Follow " Old sorrow, young lucky " and " Kennedy and Heidi ". In two episodes, he also has a cameo appearance as a Mafia expert Manny Safier.

After the end of the Sopranos Weiner was looking for a TV station that was willing to produce Mad Men. HBO and Showtime rejected, the series was finally taken over by AMC, a transmitter, which until then had not yet produced their own series. Weiner is responsible producer (since 2008 with Scott Hornbacher ) and author of the series, he also led in each case at the last episodes of the current four seasons directing. Even the first season was well received by critics and the public also came to resonance. For the second season of AMC launched a major advertising campaign, since Mad Men is one of the most popular TV series on American television.

Weiner's contract officially runs until the fifth season to be aired in 2011. He has hinted that after the sixth season could all be different; officially but has not yet been confirmed.

Currently, Weiner is also working on his first feature film, which has the working title You Are Here, and in which, inter alia, Matt Dillon and Jack Black to play.

Weiner lives in Los Angeles, is married and has four sons, two of which have already appeared in Mad Men. The eldest son Marten plays in several episodes of the role of the neighborhood boy Glen Bishop, Charles Weiner is seen as an extra in the episode " In the Hall of the Mountain King ".

Awards

Weiner has received nine awards for his work, for another fifteen times, he was nominated for TV awards.

With The Sopranos Weiner received a total of two times the Emmy in the category " Outstanding Drama Series" ( 2004, 2007 ), as well as the 2008 Writers Guild of America Award in the category " Dramatic Series ".

With Mad Men, he was even more successful: The series won three years in a row the Golden Globe in the category " Drama ", as four consecutive Emmy in the category " Outstanding Drama Series ". Another three Emmys received Weiner in the category "Outstanding Writing" for the pilot episode " smoke and mirrors " as well as co -author of the episodes of the second season ( " The tranquility of the abyss " ) and the third ( " Shut The Door. Have A Seat " ). Overall, Mad Men won so far four Golden Globes, 14 Emmys and 37 other awards.

Awards received Weiner also of the Producers Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and BAFTA.