Lorne Michaels
Known for: Production
Born: November 17, 1944
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian and American television and film producer, comedian, screenwriter and director. He created and produced Saturday Night Live (1975–1980, 1985–present) and produced the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1989 to 1995), and The Tonight Show (since 2014). He has received 24 Primetime Emmy Awards from 112 nominations, holding the record as the most nominated individual in the award show's history. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorne Michaels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
110 movies · 43 TV shows, newest first
6.9
Lorne
2026
4.7
Saturday Night Live UK
2026
7.3
Marcello Hernández: American Boy
2026
5.1
Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh
2025
6.5
I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not
2025
NR
Downey Wrote That
2025
6.8
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
7.7
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
8.0
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
5.5
Nate Bargatze's Nashville Christmas
2024
NR
An SNL Thanksgiving
2024
7.5
Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
2024
7.3
Will & Harper
2024
6.6
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024
5.9
Mean Girls
2024
6.3
Bupkis
2023
NR
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
2022
6.6
The Kids in the Hall
2022
8.5
The Kardashians
2022
8.0
The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks
2022
6.0
Bust Down
2022
9.0
Michael Bublé's Christmas in the City
2022
2.0
Miley's New Year's Eve Party Hosted by Miley Cyrus and Pete Davidson
2021
6.0
MacGruber
2021
5.8
Saturday Morning All Star Hits!
2021
6.8
Schmigadoon!
2021
6.3
That Damn Michael Che
2021
5.7
The Story of Late Night
2021
7.0
Kenan
2021
5.7
Vampires vs. the Bronx
2020
5.7
Mapleworth Murders
2020
6.3
30 Rock: A One-Time Special
2020
7.0
Belushi
2020
7.4
Cracked Up
2019
7.0
My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres
2019
6.3
Los Espookys
2019
6.4
Shrill
2019
3.8
Alien News Desk
2019
6.8
Miracle Workers
2019
7.0
The Other Two
2019
7.2
Love, Gilda
2018
8.2
Norm Macdonald Has a Show
2018
6.6
Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life
2018
6.9
A.P. Bio
2018
5.0
The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special
2017
5.5
Sandy Wexler
2017
7.2
Detroiters
2017
6.9
Michael Che Matters
2016
5.8
Masterminds
2016
5.1
Brother Nature
2016
7.0
The Last Laugh
2016
6.3
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016
8.4
Adele: Live in New York City 2015
2015
7.1
Documentary Now!
2015
7.1
I Am Chris Farley
2015
5.6
Staten Island Summer
2015
7.9
Inside Out
2015
5.9
Live from New York!
2015
5.5
The Last Impresario
2014
5.0
The Maya Rudolph Show
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
5.6
The Guilt Trip
2012
7.1
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
2012
7.1
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
2012NR
Inside Portlandia
2011
6.0
Up All Night
2011
NR
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
2011
6.9
Portlandia
2011
5.4
MacGruber
2010
7.7
Saturday Night
2010NR
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
2010
7.7
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
2009
5.9
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
5.7
To Love and Die
2008NR
To Love and Die
2008
6.6
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
2008
6.0
Baby Mama
2008
6.4
Hot Rod
2007
NR
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007
7.5
30 Rock
2006NR
Laser Cats!
2006
6.5
Sons & Daughters
2006
7.5
Iconoclasts
2005
8.1
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd
2005
8.0
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
2005
7.9
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
2005
7.2
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
2004
7.2
Mean Girls
2004
10.0
The Tracy Morgan Show
2003
7.4
Lost in Translation
2003
5.8
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
2003
7.8
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell
2002
6.0
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
20029.0
The Colin Quinn Show
2002
5.0
50 Years of NBC Late Night
2001
6.3
Enigma
2001
7.1
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
5.4
The Ladies Man
2000
7.2
Man on the Moon
1999
6.9
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999
5.3
Superstar
1999
6.9
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
6.8
Mark Twain Prize
1999
6.5
A Night at the Roxbury
1998
8.3
Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live
1998
7.7
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998
6.2
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
1996
NR
The Kids In The Hall: Laughing Ourselves Sick
1996
6.1
Black Sheep
1996
5.2
Stuart Saves His Family
1995
6.8
Tommy Boy
1995
8.0
The Story of Lassie
1994
6.1
Lassie
1994
6.1
Wayne's World 2
1993
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
5.5
Coneheads
1993
5.6
Frosty Returns
1992
6.7
Wayne's World
1992
NR
Saturday Night Live: Halloween Special
1991
8.0
Lookwell
1991
7.7
Lookwell
1991
6.1
The Earth Day Special
1990
7.6
The Kids in the Hall
1989
7.8
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
8.0
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988
6.3
¡Three Amigos!
1986
5.5
The Canadian Conspiracy
1986
6.3
Nothing Lasts Forever
19846.5
The Day Before
19846.8
The Discreet Charm of the Diplomacy
1984
7.0
Neil Young in Berlin
1983
5.1
The Coneheads
1983
7.9
Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park
1982
6.1
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
7.6
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
1981
6.1
Gilda Live
1980
5.3
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
1979
7.0
Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda
1979
4.8
The Things We Did Last Summer
1978
6.8
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
1978
8.3
The Paul Simon Special
1977
8.0
The Beach Boys: It's OK
1976
1.0
The Beach Boys: It's OK
1976
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
NR
Lily
1973
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968NR
A Chris Farley Story
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Worst Man
—
NR
The Big Goodbye
—
NR
Jonty
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Bag Man
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Untitled Lou Gehrig Biopic
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