# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-pytka
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:35:15.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-pytka"
name: "Joe Pytka"
slug: "joe-pytka"
description: "Joe Pytka is an American film, television, commercial and music video director born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He holds the record for the most nominations for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Commercials. He directed Space Jam (1996)."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qL8cJZFN6GNGJiTQ9xMGdjRAsIC.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1938-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.520996
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0701592/"
    handle:    "nm0701592"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1597630"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جو بيتكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pytka"
    title: "Joe Pytka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pytka"
    title: "Joe Pytka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AA%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "جو پیتکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pytka"
    title: "Joe Pytka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pytka"
    title: "Joe Pytka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pytka"
    title: "Joe Pytka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pytka"
    title: "Joe Pytka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pytka"
    title: "Joe Pytka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691559"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23677"
    title: "Joe Pytka"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump