Jeremiah S. Chechik (born Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian film and television director and photographer.
[2] He landed early gigs directing television commercials, which impressed Stanley Kubrick who mentioned them in a NY Times article.
Subsequently, he was invited to develop a film for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment that took place in and around the Apollo Theater in New York City.
[2] Though that film was never made, Chechik began receiving scripts while at Warner Bros., eventually landing on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation which would become his feature directorial debut.
After directing several other films throughout the 1990s, Chechik was nominated for Worst Director at the 1998 Golden Raspberry Awards for The Avengers but lost to Gus Van Sant for his remake of Psycho.