Oz Scott

Oz Scott ( born September 16, 1949 in Forman Row, Virginia; actually Osborne E. Scott, Jr.) is an American television director and producer.

Life

The son of the pastor Military Brigadier General Osborne Scott, Sr. grew up to the age of twelve on in Japan and Germany and then lived in Mt Vernon. 1976 in New York began his career as a television director with The Jefferson and Archie Bunker 's Place.

He has directed episodes of the series Hill Street Blues, Gimme a Break! Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Cosby Show, LA Law and Dirty Dancing in the 1980s, when Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Picket Fences, Party of Five, Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal, Family Law, Time Cop, Get Real and Any Day Now in the 1990s, and Soul Food, Strong Medicine, CSI, Lizzie McGuire and The Guardian after 2000.

In the CBS television series The District, he served as producer and director. He also directed the television films Crash Course (1988 ), play'd A Hip- Hop Story ( 2002) and The Cheetah Girls - We are pop stars! (2003). In 1988, he shot the video for the presidential candidacy of Jesse Jackson at the Democratic National Convention, the 1990 film about Nelson Mandela Rally for Freedom at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Scott was, inter alia, with the NAACP Image Award, the Genesis Award and the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award.