Chris Donovan is a television director and producer who is recognized as the long-time director of the televised Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...

s, and other television gala specials.
Most recently, he directed The 38th Annual Daytime Emmy Award

Daytime Emmy Award

The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming...

s which was televised live on June 19, 2011;

and also the 2011 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards which was televised on September 17, 2011.
Donovan has been nominated for four Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

s, three of them for his work on the 1990's Home Improvement television series.