Film The Company Men Wells made his directorial debut with the film drama The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck. The film was scheduled for release in the fall of 2010 but premiered earlier at the Sundance film festival. After the Sundance screening, The Hollywood Reporter said, "Wells has made, for his first film, a tough movie and certainly not a commercial one. This displays the kind of guts he always brought to his television work, which one can only hope continues on in other future film projects." August: Osage County His second film, August: Osage County (2013), which he directed from a script by Tracy Letts, stars Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and Ewan McGregor. The Weinstein Company released the film in December 2013. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards® including Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Streep) and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Roberts). Love and Mercy He next produced Love and Mercy the critically acclaimed biopic about The Beach Boys, starring Paul Dano, John Cusack, Paul Giamatti and Elizabeth Banks. The film originally premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014. Burnt Wells directed the cooking drama film Burnt, previously titled Chef and Adam Jones, in which Bradley Cooper starred as a Paris chef named Adam Jones. Sienna Miller co-starred, along with Omar Sy, Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl, Alicia Vikander, and Lily James. Filmography Film Executive producer-only Television The numbers in directing and writing credits refer to the number of episodes. Notes Awards and nominations John Wells Productions won a Peabody Award in 1999 and 2000 for The West Wing and again in 2001 for Third Watch'''s '"In Their Own Words," which told the stories of real-life responders to the 9/11 attack on New York City. John Wells has been nominated for twenty-five Emmy Awards and received six wins including Outstanding Drama Series in 1996 for ER, Outstanding Drama Series in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 for The West Wing, and Outstanding Special Class Program in 2002 for The West Wing Documentary Special. Wells has been nominated for six Producers Guild Awards and won three awards for his work on The West Wing and ER''. He was honored with the Vision Award in 2000 as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award in Television in 2005. In addition, Wells has been nominated for seven Writers Guild Awards and won