John Sacret Young

Who is John Sacret Young?

John Sacret Young is an author, producer, director, and screenwriter primarily in television. Young has been nominated for seven Emmys and seven Writers Guild of America Awards, winning two WGA Awards.

He is perhaps best known for co-creating, along with William F. Broyles Jr., China Beach, the critically acclaimed ABC drama series about the medics and nurses during the Vietnam War. For his work on the show, Young received five Emmy and four Writer’s Guild Award nominations. The WGA honored him with the Award for an episode he also directed.

The West Wing brought him two more Emmy and two more WGA nominations.

Young won his second WGA Award for the mini-series, A Rumor of War. He's also been honored with two Christopher Awards for the Academy Award-nominated feature film Testament starring Jane Alexander and Kevin Costner and the film Romero with Raul Julia. Young's the holder of a Golden Globe, a Peabody Award as well, and his original mini-series about the Gulf War, Thanks of a Grateful Nation, was honored with his fifth Humanitas Prize nomination and second win. He began his television work on the Emmy winning Best Drama series, Police Story, and has since created, written, or Executive Produced five additional series and multiple mini-series and movies of the week.