Digital Policy Institute
Roger Young
Roger Young is the Edmund F. and Virginia Ball Endowed Chair at the Telecommunications Department at Ball State University.

Mr. Young is an Emmy award-winning, international director, writer and producer.  For the complete list of filmic details, credits including reviews, click HERE.

Motions Pictures and Television Episodes

  • Hercules, Hallmark Entertainment and NBC
  • The Perfect Husband, USA Network
  • Augustus, LUX Vide, Italy, in co-production with RAI Fiction;
        German television; French television and Spanish television
  • Dracula, LUX Vide, Italy, for RAI and German television
  • St. Paul, LUX Vide, Italy, for RAI-TV and German Television
  • The Thin Blue Lie, Paramount and Helfgott-Turner/ShowTime
  • Jesus, CBS and LUX Vide, Italy
  • One Special Night, CBS
  • A Knight in Camelot, Wonderful World of Disney, ABC
  • Kiss the Sky, MGM for ShowTime
  • Solomon, LUX Vide, Italy, for RAI-TV and PAX-TV
  • Sisters and Other Strangers, CBS
  • Heart Full of Rain, CBS
  • Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy, CBS Mini-series
  • Moses, LUX Vide, Italy, for TNT
  • Joseph, LUX Vide, Italy, for TNT
  • Geronimo, TNT
  • Getting Gotti, CBS
  • Mercy Mission, NBC
  • Jewels, NBC
  • Held Hostage, ABC
  • Doublecrossed, HBO
  • Death of Innocence, CBS
  • Murder in Mississippi, NBC
  • The episode, "Til Death Do Us Part One," for TNT's, The Closer
  • The episode, "Philippi," for HBO's, Rome

For the complete list of filmic details, credits including reviews, click HERE.

During his career, Mr. Young's work has received critical acclaim and earned many awards from his colleagues and associations in his craft:

Awards and Nominations

  • Directors Guild of America Award: Lou Grant, 1979
  • Directors Guild of America Award: Lou Grant, 1980
  • Emmy Award:  Directorial Achievement, Lou Grant, 1980
  • Emmy nomination:  Directorial Achievement,Bitter Harvest, 1981
  • Humanitas Award: Bitter Harvest, 1981
  • Humanitas Award:  Two of a Kind, 1983
  • ACE Award nomination:  Directorial Achievement, Gulag, 1985
  • ACE Award nomination:  Best Picture, Gulag, 1985
  • Emmy nomination:  Best Mini-Series, Bourne Identity,1988
  • Golden Globe nomination:  Best Mini-Series, Bourne Identity, 1988
  • Emmy nomination:  Best Film, Murder in Mississippi, 1990
  • Directors Guild of America Award: Directorial Achievement,
        Murder in Mississippi, 1990
  • ACE Award:  Best Motion Picture, Doublecrossed, 1991
  • Golden Globe nomination:  Best Picture, Jewels, 1992
  • Emmy Award:  Best Mini-Series, Moses, 1996
  • Emmy nomination:  Best Mini-Series, Jesus, 1999