Rich Kim

Rich Kim is an American television director.^[1][2][3]

Rich Kim
Born	Sturgis, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Illinois Chicago American Film Institute
Occupation(s)	Television director, producer
Notable work	Knife Fight

Career

Rich holds a BFA from the University of Illinois Chicago and an MFA from the American Film Institute, where he won the Franklin J. Schaffner Award for best thesis film.^[4][5] He directed over 50 television series. He is also an executive producer on the Esquire Network television series Knife Fight for four seasons.^[6][7]

Selected filmography

• 2023 – Is It Cake? (8 episodes)
• 2023 – Snake Oil (10 episodes)
• 2023 – MasterChef Junior : "Home for the Holidays" (4 episodes)
• 2020-2023 – Lego Masters (46 episodes)
• 2019-2023 – MasterChef (67 episodes)
• 2021-2022 – Family Game Fight! (9 episodes)
• 2022 – MasterChef Junior (16 episodes)
• 2021 – Foodtastic
• 2021 – Recipe For Change
• 2019 – Awake: The Million Dollar Game (8 episodes)
• 2018 – Making It (6 episodes)
• 2018 – Red Table Talk (18 episodes)
• 2014-2017 – Project Runway (59 episodes)
• 2015-2016 – Project Runway: Junior (11 episodes)
• 2016 – Kocktails with Khloé
• 2009-2013 – Tough Love (49 episodes)
• 2009 – Confessions of a Teen Idol (8 episodes)
• 2008 – The Pickup Artist (8 episodes)
• 2008 – Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious (8 episodes)
• 2008 – Scott Baio Is 45...and Single (8 episodes)
• 2003-2007 – Road Rules (50 episodes)
• 2003 – The Simple Life
• 2002-2004 – The Real World (30 episodes)

As executive producer

• 2013-2015 – Knife Fight (49 episodes)
• 2015 – Food To Get You Laid (7 episodes)

List of awards and nominations

Year	Result	Award	Category	Work	Ref.
2024	Nominated	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directing – Reality Programs	Lego Masters for "Is It Brick?"	[8]
2023	Nominated			Lego Masters for "Jurass-brick World"	[9]
	Won	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Daytime Special	Recipe for Change: Standing up to Anti-Semitism	[10]
2022	Nominated			Recipe for Change: Stop Asian Hate	[11]
2021	Nominated	Directors Guild of America	Outstanding Directing – Reality Programs	Lego Masters for "Mega City Block"	[12]
2020	Nominated	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program		[13]
2019	Nominated	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Talk Show Informative	Red Table Talk	[14]
2003	Won	GMA Dove Award	Short Form Music Video of the Year	"Irene"; tobyMac	[15]