Daniel Sackheim (born in 1962)^[1] is an American television and film director, producer, and photographer. Sackheim has produced and directed for The X-Files, Law & Order, House and NYPD Blue. He also directed The Walking Dead, The Americans, and Ozark, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. He has won a Primetime Emmy Award as a director and been nominated twice for his work as a producer and director. Sackheim directed the third and fourth episodes of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.

Daniel Sackheim was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles,^[2] the son of screenwriter William Sackheim and his wife JoAnne (née Cohen).^[3] His brother Drew Sackheim is a fashion photographer.^[4][5] He is married to Leslie Sackheim; they have two children, Josh and Emma, and live in Encino, California.^[3]

Sackheim's career began with a role as an assistant film editor on the 1984 John Cassavetes film Love Streams,^[6] before he found work as a music supervisor and associate producer on the NBC series Miami Vice.^[7]

Sackheim's first time as a director was on "Mushrooms", a 1991 episode from the premiere season of the television series Law & Order. Sackheim later went on to produce the pilot episode of The X-Files and direct the pilot episode of Harsh Realm. Sackheim also served as an executive producer for the 2005 series Night Stalker, a remake of the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker;^[6] and again as executive producer for the 2012 series The Finder.^[8] Sackheim directed the pilot episode of NBC's Hawaii and the television films Homeland Security and The Lottery.^[6][9] Sackheim made his feature film directing debut on 2001's The Glass House. In 1999, he signed an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television.^[10]

From 2010 Sackheim has directed a number of episodes of high rating AMC series The Walking Dead, and since 2013 has also worked as a producer on the FX series The Americans which was listed in the American Film Institute Awards 2013 best ten television programs of the year; as well as serving as executive producer for the 2012 series The Finder.^[8] He has also directed three episodes of Jack Ryan.

On July 21, 2020, he and producer Tony To founded Bedrock Entertainment with ITV Studios America as partner.^[11]

Sackheim's work has earned him one Primetime Emmy Award and three additional Emmy nominations. In 1994, Sackheim won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, having been nominated for his work on the NYPD Blue episode "Tempest in a C-Cup".^[12] His three other nominations have both been for Outstanding Drama Series in the role of producer—for Law & Order in 1992,^[13] and for House in 2007.^[14] and outstanding directing for Ozark in 2018.