2026Nominee
Best Performance
Primetime
Jason Woliner
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
The Bronx, New York
June 1, 1980
Biography
Jason Woliner (born June 1, 1980) is an American comedy director, writer, editor and also a former child actor. He is the non-performing member of the comedy group "Human Giant" and has directed the bulk of their output. The group, which also consists of comedians Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, and Paul Scheer, produced an MTV sketch comedy show that ran for two seasons. The show is currently on hiatus and in November 2008, The Hollywood Reporter noted that the group is developing a feature film with Red Hour Films, the production company run by Ben Stiller and producer Stuart Cornfeld. Woliner shot and edited the pilot episode of Jon Glaser's Adult Swim series Delocated and recently directed projects for comedians such as Patton Oswalt, Judd Apatow, Slovin and Allen, Chris Elliott, and H. Jon Benjamin. His brother, Zach Woliner, is a profilic puppeteer and has worked on Wacky Man: Rise of a Puppeteer. Zach created his alter ego, Wally Wackiman in 2006. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Woliner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2020Nominee
Best Director
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
1989Nominee
Best Performance
Weekend at Bernie's
Career Highlights
2026Highlight
Best Picture
Never Change!
2021Highlight
Best Director
Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed "Sub-Acceptable" by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision
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Primetime
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Weekend at Bernie's