---
name: "Nancy Savoca"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nancy-savoca"
fi1m_id: "nancy-savoca"
imdb_id: "nm0001700"
tmdb_id: 93025
wikidata_id: "Q3335603"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "23 July 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:26:10.362329+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Nancy Savoca

## Identity

Nancy Savoca

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nancy-savoca
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nancy-savoca
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001700
- **TMDB ID:** 93025
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3335603
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Savoca, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3335603, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001700/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93025

Director. Born 23 July 1959 in Bronx, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 23 July 1959, Bronx, New York, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Savoca, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3335603, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001700/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93025

## Biography

Nancy Savoca is an American film and television director, writer and producer. Born in the Bronx, New York, she graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1982, where she received the Haig P. Manoogian Award for her short films. She began her career working on productions for John Sayles and Jonathan Demme before making her feature debut with *True Love* (1989).

Savoca is known for directing *Dogfight* (1991), *Household Saints* (1993), segments of *If These Walls Could Talk* (1996) and *The 24 Hour Woman* (1999). Her television credits include episodes of *Murder One* (1995), *Third Watch* (2000) and *Dirt* (2003). She has received awards including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for *True Love* and Independent Spirit Award nominations. Savoca is married to writer and producer Richard Guay.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, encyclopedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Murder One* (1995), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/murder-one.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *If There Be Thorns* (2015), Director
- *Union Square* (2011), Director, Screenplay
- *Dirt* (2003), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Reno: Rebel Without a Pause* (2003), Director
- *The Truth About Charlie* (2002), Thanks
- *Third Watch* (1999), series, Director
- *The 24 Hour Woman* (1999), Director, Writer
- *If These Walls Could Talk* (1996), Director, Story, Writer
- *Murder One* (1995), series, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/murder-one.md)
- *Household Saints* (1993), Director, Screenplay
- *Dogfight* (1991), Director
- *True Love* (1989), Director, Writer
- *Bad Timing* (1982), Writer, Director, Producer, Editor
- *Renata* (1982), Director, Script
- *The Tale of Timmy Two Chins*, Director

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won, 2 nominated

- Lucy Award 1996: Lucy Award (won)
- Independent Spirit Awards 1994: Best Screenplay (nominated), for *Household Saints*
- Independent Spirit Awards 1990: Best Director (nominated), for *True Love*
- Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award 1989: Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award (won), for *True Love*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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