Lisa Cholodenko ’97SOA won the Emmy Award for outstanding directing of a limited series, movie, or dramatic special for her work on the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge. Based on a Pulitzer Prize–winning story collection by Elizabeth Strout, the series focuses on a cantankerous middle-school math teacher, her long-suffering husband, and their neighbors in small-town Maine. Cholodenko, who studied directing and screenwriting at Columbia, is well known for her films High Art, Laurel Canyon, and The Kids Are All Right.
