David Nutter

David Nutter (born 1960) is an Emmy Award winning director. He is best known for directing pilot episodes for new television series.

David Nutter attended the University of Miami. Nutter's big break came in 1993, when he began directing episodes of The X-Files. From there he would go on to direct the pilot, and help with the creation of, Space: Above and Beyond, Millennium, Sleepwalkers, Roswell, Dark Angel, Smallville, Tarzan, Without a Trace, Dr. Vegas, Jack & Bobby, Supernatural, Traveler, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and The Mentalist.

He also directed "Replacements", the fourth part of the mini-series Band of Brothers, and shared in that series' Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special. Other directing highlights include "Join the Club", an Emmy-nominated episode of The Sopranos, and the 1998 feature film Disturbing Behavior.

David Nutter directed episodes 18, "the resurrection" and 19, "the prince's bride" of the HBO series Entourage, Season 3, Part 2, 2007. "The resurrection" aired May 13, 2007 and was about the debut of a pilot episode of the fictional series Five Towns, starring Vince's brother Johnny Drama.

In 2008, LG used Nutter's pilot expertise to create a campaign for its new "Scarlet" line of HDTVs, by creating a promotional clip in the style of a trailer for a TV pilot.