Jerry Ciccoritti (born August 5, 1956) is a Canadian director.
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Biography
Ciccoritti co-produced, co-wrote, and directed the low-budget horror film Psycho Girls (1985). Several other genre films followed, eventually leading to work in episodic television and television movies. Ciccoritti was instrumental in developing the TV series Catwalk (1992) and Straight Up (1996) and began a secondary career as a director of big-budget television movies and miniseries with Net Worth (1995), a drama about hockey player Ted Lindsay's battles with the National Hockey League on behalf of his fellow players. Another popular film of Ciccoritti's that deals with Canadian history is Trudeau.
Films
His credits include the theatrical films The Life Before This; Blood; The Resurrection of Tony Gitone; and Paris, France. Television films include The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton, Net Worth, Lives of the Saints, Shania: A Life in Eight Albums, Chasing Cain, Trudeau, Victor, and Dragon Boys. He has also directed episodic television, including Bomb Girls, Being Erica, Straight Up, ReGenesis, and King. In 2015, he directed episodes of the CBC sitcom Schitt's Creek. In 2016, he directed three episodes of the television miniseries 21 Thunder, which debuted on CBC in 2017.
Awards
Ciccoritti has been nominated for and won several Gemini Awards, including a record number of wins for Best Director (Television). He won the inaugural Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for the CBC TV movie John A.: Birth of a Country.
Blood was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 25th Genie Awards, and Ciccoritti was also nominated for a Directors Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film for the movie. Ciccoritti has won three awards from the Directors Guild of Canada.