Jessica Yu

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Jessica Yu (Chinese: 虞琳敏; pinyin: Yú Línmǐn) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1996 for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012) is based on Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been Misconception (2014), ForEveryone.Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017). In 2019, Yu was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the Fosse/Verdon episode "Glory". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Yu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Grey's AnatomySeries • 2005The RookieSeries • 2018American Horror StorySeries • 2011CastleSeries • 2009The West WingSeries • 1999ERSeries • 1994This Is UsSeries • 2016BillionsSeries • 2016Only Murders in the BuildingSeries • 202113 Reasons WhySeries • 2017The Morning ShowSeries • 2019In TreatmentSeries • 2008The AffairSeries • 2014WalkerSeries • 202156 DaysSeries • 2026CitadelSeries • 2023American DreamsSeries • 2002The RecruitSeries • 2022American CrimeSeries • 2015StumptownSeries • 2019Long Bright RiverSeries • 2025RatchedSeries • 2020Pure GeniusSeries • 2016The Lyon's DenSeries • 2003