Jon Amiel (born 20 May 1948)[1] is an English director who has worked in film and television in both the UK and the US.

After receiving a BAFTA Award nomination for the BBC series The Singing Detective (1986), he went on to direct films, including Sommersby (1993), Copycat (1995), Entrapment (1999),[2] The Core (2003) and Creation (2009).

[3] He attended William Ellis School in Highgate, before studying English literature at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating in 1969.

It was while at Cambridge that he became involved with local theatre, and after college he went on to direct for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

One of his most notable films is 1993's romantic drama Sommersby, starring Jodie Foster and Richard Gere.