1999Nominee
Best Picture
Lake Placid
Michael Pressman
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
New York City, New York, USA
July 1, 1950
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Pressman (born July 1, 1950 in New York City, New York) is an American director and producer of film and television. Some of the films he has directed are The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976), Doctor Detroit (1983), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996). For television, he has directed episodes of Picket Fences, The Practice, The Graudian, Boston Legal, The Closer, Law & Order, Weeds, Grey's Anatomy and other series. He is an alumni of Camp Rising Sun and studied filmmaking at the California Institute of the Arts.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1991Nominee
Best Performance
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
1996Nominee
Best Director
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Career Highlights
1982Highlight
Best Director
Some Kind of Hero
1999Highlight
Best Director
A Season for Miracles
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Lake Placid
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday