Jessica Yu
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 14, 1966
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Jessica Yu (Chinese: 虞琳敏; pinyin: Yú Línmǐn) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows.
Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1996 for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012) is based on Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been Misconception (2014), ForEveryone.Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017). In 2019, Yu was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the Fosse/Verdon episode "Glory".
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Movies with Jessica Yu
- Capturing Reality 2008 · ★ 6.1
Movies directed by Jessica Yu
- Quiz Lady 2023 · ★ 6.7
- A Very Jonas Christmas Movie 2025 · ★ 6.2
- Ping Pong Playa 2008 · ★ 5.8
- In the Realms of the Unreal 2004 · ★ 7.2
- Maria Bamford: Old Baby 2017 · ★ 5.2
- Protagonist 2007 · ★ 6.9
- Last Call at the Oasis 2011 · ★ 7.4
- Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien 1996 · ★ 6.5
- Sour Death Balls 1993 · ★ 6.0
- Better Late 1996 · ★ 3.3
- Misconception 2014 · ★ 5.0
- The Living Museum 1998 · ★ 7.0
- Men of Reenaction 1996 · ★ 9.0
- Meet Mr Toilet 2012
- Foreveryone.net 2016
- Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas 2012