Garrett Basch is an American film and television producer. He is best known for his work on the Emmy-winning series The Night Of and What We Do in the Shadows, and for being the first producer ever to have three scripted shows nominated in the same year.
Career While attending Tulane University, Basch was hired by Oscar-winning writer/director Steven Zaillian as his assistant. The pair later formed Film Rites, a production company whose work included Moneyball, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and the HBO limited series The Night Of. In addition to scripted content, Basch produced the documentary film Life Itself, for which he won the Producers Guild of America Award in 2015.
Although HBO initially passed on The Night Of, Basch was instrumental in saving the show by screening the pilot for Netflix and FX executives, sparking a bidding war that ultimately led HBO to order the limited series. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series for The Night Of in 2017. He was nominated again for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2020 and 2022 for FX's What We Do in the Shadows.
In 2022, Basch founded Dive, a production company whose projects include Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins, What We Do in the Shadows, Reservation Dogs, Our Flag Means Death, Time Bandits, Interior Chinatown and Ripley. Basch received the Peabody Award twice for his work on FX's Reservation Dogs, first in 2022 and again in 2024. In August 2024, Basch became the first producer to have three scripted shows—What We Do in the Shadows, Reservation Dogs, and Ripley—nominated for the Emmys in the same year.
He received his third Peabody Award in 2025 for Ripley.
Filmography Film Year Film Credit 2010 Welcome to the Rileys Co-Producer 2011 Extraterrestrial Executive Producer The Girl with the Dragon TattooProduction Executive 2012 The Cold Light of Day Co-Producer 2014 Open Windows Executive Producer 2016 Colossal 2017 The Current War2018 Red SparrowAssassination NationDirector Wishes to Thank2019The IrishmanProduction Executive 2021 Those Who Wish Me Dead Producer 2022 Deep Water Executive Producer 2023 Next Goal WinsProducer 2026 Klara and the Sun
Television Year Title Credit Notes 2016 The Night Of Co-Executive Producer, Actor ("Ivan") 2018 My Dinner with Hervé Co-Executive Producer Television film 2019 Diagnosis Executive Producer Documentary series 2020 Devs Dispatches from Elsewhere Barkskins 2021−23 Reservation Dogs 2019−23 What We Do in the Shadows 2022−23 Our Flag Means Death2024 Ripley Time Bandits Interior Chinatown 2025The Lowdown
Awards Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result2014Gotham AwardsBest DocumentaryLife ItselfAudience Award2015Producers Guild AwardsOutstanding Producer of Documentary Critics Choice AwardsBest Documentary Feature2016News & Documentary Emmy Best Documentary2017Producers Guild AwardsOutstanding Producer of Longform Television The Night OfBAFTA AwardsBest InternationalGolden GlobesBest Television Limited SeriesPrimetime EmmyOutstanding Limited SeriesAFI AwardsTV Program of the Year2020Primetime EmmyOutstanding Comedy SeriesWhat We Do in the Shadows2021Producers Guild AwardsOutstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy Gotham AwardsBreakthrough SeriesReservation DogsCritics Choice AwardsBest Comedy SeriesWhat We Do in the Shadows2022Reservation DogsGolden GlobesBest Television Series - Musical or ComedyIndependent Spirit AwardsBest New Scripted SeriesPrimetime EmmyOutstanding Comedy Series What We Do in the ShadowsPeabody AwardsEntertainmentReservation DogsAFI AwardsTV Program of the Year2023Peabody AwardsEntertainmentOur Flag Means DeathCritics Choice AwardsBest Comedy SeriesReservation DogsAFI AwardsTV Program of the Year2024Peabody AwardsEntertainmentPrimetime EmmyOutstanding Comedy SeriesWhat We Do in the ShadowsOutstanding Limited SeriesRipley2025AFI AwardsTV Program of the YearThe LowdownPeabody AwardsEntertainmentRipley
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