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name: "Scott Hornbacher"
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fi1m_id: "scott-hornbacher"
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tmdb_id: 1222229
wikidata_id: "Q7436518"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
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average_as: "producer"
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updated: "2026-09-17T21:37:16.285855+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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# Scott Hornbacher

## Identity

Scott Hornbacher

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/scott-hornbacher
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** scott-hornbacher
- **IMDb ID:** nm0394954
- **TMDB ID:** 1222229
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7436518
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Hornbacher, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7436518, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394954/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222229

Producer and director. Born in Moorhead, Minnesota.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 4 Emmys (4 won · 3 nominated)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Hornbacher, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7436518, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394954/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222229

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Mad Men*](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md) (88)

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## Biography

Scott Hornbacher is an American television producer and director. He began his career as a production assistant on films in the 1980s and worked as a location manager in the 1990s before moving into television.

He held various production roles on *The Sopranos* (2000–2006), rising to co-producer, and collaborated there with Matthew Weiner. Weiner hired him for the pilot of *Mad Men* (2007–2015), where Hornbacher served as producer, unit production manager, co-executive producer and executive producer across all seven seasons. He also directed nine episodes of the series. The production team, including Hornbacher, won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

His other credits include producing the film *Are You Here* (2013) and directing episodes of *Billions* (2016), *Conviction* (2016) and *The Last Tycoon* (2017), on which he was also executive producer.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mad Men* (2007), Fi1m 88, Executive Producer, Director, Producer, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Boots* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *The Comey Rule* (2020), series, Consulting Producer
- *The Last Tycoon* (2017), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Conviction* (2016), series, Director
- *Billions* (2016), series, Director
- *Are You Here* (2013), Producer
- *Mad Men* (2007), series, Producer, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md)
- *Interview* (2007), Producer
- *Trouble on the Corner* (1997), Consulting Producer
- *Before and After* (1996), Location Manager

## Awards

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 4 won, 3 nominated

- 2014: Outstanding Drama Series (nominated), for *Mad Men*
- 2013: Outstanding Drama Series (nominated), for *Mad Men*
- 2012: Outstanding Drama Series (nominated), for *Mad Men*
- 2011: Outstanding Drama Series (won), for *Mad Men*
- 2010: Outstanding Drama Series (won), for *Mad Men*
- 2009: Outstanding Drama Series (won), for *Mad Men*
- 2008: Outstanding Drama Series (won), for *Mad Men*

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

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