Biografia
Don Mischer has received fifteen Emmy Awards, a record ten Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, two NAACP Image Awards, a Peabody Award for broadcasting excellence, the 2012 Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television from the Producers Guild of America, and the 2019 Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award for Television.
His work as a producer and director includes The Oscars, We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, the Kennedy Center Honors, the 100th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall, Motown 25, Super Bowl Halftime Shows featuring Michael Jackson, Prince, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, and Bruce Springsteen, the Democratic National Convention, and the Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics. Mischer has also produced specials with artists such as Beyoncé, Bono, Prince, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Taylor Swift, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Garth Brooks, Mary J. Blige, Elton John, Justin Timberlake, Barbra Streisand, Cher, Yo Yo Ma, and Morgan Freeman.
He has been honored with the Governors Award from the National Association of Choreographers and is a member of the Event Industry Hall of Fame, the Producers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America, and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, where he served two terms on the Board of Governors. Within the Directors Guild of America, he has completed three terms on the National Board and was awarded the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award for Television in 2019, becoming only the fourth recipient of this honor for television. On December 11, 2014, Mischer was also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
