Brent "Bucky" Gunts[1] is a multiple Emmy-winning sports television director currently serving as Head of Production for NBC Olympics.[2]
He is a director for NBC's Olympics coverage and has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special for NBC's coverage of the opening ceremony at various games, most recently for the 2010 Winter OlympicsinVancouver.[3] The 2010 award was presented at the televised ceremony by Ricky Gervais, who joked about the director's name.[4]
Gunts also directs NBC's primetime studio coverage throughout the Olympic Games, and has directed the Football Night in America studio show and NBC's golf coverage. He previously served as a director of the NBA on NBC, the network's baseball coverage, and The Today Show. According to NBC, he had won a total of twenty Emmy Awards as of February 2010.
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