He graduated from Dunedin High School in Dunedin, Florida, in 1978. He subsequently graduated from the University of Miami, where he originally enrolled as a music major.
He is best known for directing pilot episodes for television Nutter"s big break came in 1993, when he began directing episodes of The X-Files. From there he would go on to direct the pilot, and help with the creation of, Space: Above and Beyond, Millennium, Sleepwalkers, Roswell, Dark Angel, Smallville, Tarzan, Without a Trace, Doctor Vegas, Jack & Bobby, Supernatural, Traveler, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Mentalist, and Shameless.
Other directing highlights include "Join the Club", an Emmy-nominated episode of The Sopranos, and the 1998 feature film Disturbing Behavior.
Nutter directed episodes of the Home Box Office series Entourage, including "The Resurrection", "The Prince"s Bride" and the series finale, "The End."
In 2008, LG used Nutter"s pilot expertise to create a campaign for its new "Scarlet" line of HDTVs, by creating a promotional clip in the style of a trailer for a television pilot. In 2011, Nutter directed the pilot of Rina Mimoun"s The Doctor, for Columbia Broadcasting System. In 2012, Nutter directed episodes six and seven of Game of Thrones season 2.
In 2013, he directed the last two episodes of season 3, including "The Rains of Castamere", with the infamous "Red Wedding" scene. Nutter also directed the pilot of The CW series Arrow, based on the comic-book character Green Arrow, starring Stephen Amell.
In 2014, he returned to the Home Box Office series Game of Thrones to direct episodes 9 and 10 of Season 5.
List of directed pilots
The first sixteen pilots that Nutter directed have all gone to series. This streak was broken in 2011 when Columbia Broadcasting System chose to not pick up The Doctor. Space: Above and Beyond (1995)
Millennium (1996)
Sleepwalkers (1997)
Roswell (1998)
Dark Angel (1999)
Smallville (2001)
Without a Trace (2002)
Doctor Vegas (2003)
Tarzan (2003)
Jack & Bobby (2004)
Supernatural (2005)
Traveler (2006)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2007)
The Mentalist (2008)
Eastwick (2009)
Chase (2010)
The Doctor (2011)
Arrow (2012)
The Advocates (2013)
The Flash (2014)
They have two children, actress Zoe K. Nutter and Ben Nutter.
In 2015, he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for his work on the Home Box Office series, Game of Thrones. He also directed "Replacements", the fourth part of the mini-series Band of Brothers, and shared in that series"s Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special. Foreign episode 10, he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.
