Oz Scott

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Osborne E. Scott, Jr. (born September 16, 1949 in Forman Row , Virginia ) is an American television director and producer .

Life

The son of the military chaplain Brigadier General Osborne Scott, Sr. grew up in Japan and Germany until he was twelve and then lived in Mt. Vernon . 1976 began his career as a television director in New York with The Jeffersons and Archie Bunker's Place .

He directed episodes of the Hill Street Blues , Gimme a Break! Scarecrow and Mrs. King , The Cosby Show , LA Law and Dirty Dancing in the 1980s, on Superman - The Adventures of Lois & Clark , Picket Fences , Party of Five , Chicago Hope , Ally McBeal , Family Law , Time Cop , Get Real and Any Day Now in the 1990s and Soul Food , Strong Medicine , CSI , Lizzie McGuire, and The Guardian after 2000.

He was a producer and director on the CBS television series The District . He also directed the television films Crash Course (1988), Play'd A Hip-Hop Story (2002) and Cheetah Girls - We'll be Popstars! (2003). In 1988 he shot the video for Jesse Jackson's presidential candidacy at the Democratic National Convention , and in 1990 the film about the Nelson Mandela Rally for Freedom at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum .

Scott was u. a. honored with the NAACP Image Award , the Genesis Award and the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award .

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