杰克·卡斯丹（1974年10月28日出生于雅各布·卡斯丹）是美国电视和电影导演。

卡斯丹出生于底特律，是作家梅格（原名戈德曼）的儿子，也是编剧兼导演劳伦斯·卡斯丹的儿子。他的弟弟乔恩·卡斯丹（Jon Kasdan）也在影视行业担任演员和作家。他与《鸟与蜜蜂》的歌手/词曲作者伊娜拉·乔治（Inara George）结婚。

卡斯丹执导了四部院线电影：《零效应》（1998）、《奥兰治县》（2002）、《电视机》（2007）和《艰难行走：杜威考克斯的故事》（2007）。他还曾在电视领域工作，最著名的是与贾德·阿帕托（Judd Apatow）合作，担任《怪胎与极客》的顾问制片人，以及《未申报》的导演。他还执导了许多舞台作品。

2006 年，Kasdan 凭借 Walk Hard： Best Original Song（与 John C. Reilly、Judd Apatow 和 Marshall Crenshaw 共同）获得了他的第一个金球奖提名，但输给了 Into the Wild（由 Eddie Vedder 创作）中的“Guaranteed”。

小时候，他多次出现在父亲的电影中，例如《大寒》和《西尔维拉多》（前者是葬礼上的签名者，后者是稳定的男孩）。

Jake Kasdan (born Jacob Kasdan; 28 October 1974) is an American television and film director.

Kasdan was born in Detroit, the son of Meg (née Goldman), a writer, and writer-director Lawrence Kasdan.  His younger brother, Jon Kasdan, also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer. He is married to singer/songwriter Inara George of The Bird and the Bee.

Kasdan has directed four theatrical films: Zero Effect (1998), Orange County (2002), The TV Set (2007) and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007). He has also worked in television, most notably with Judd Apatow, as a consulting producer on Freaks and Geeks and as a director on Undeclared. He has also directed numerous stage productions.

In 2006, Kasdan received his first Golden Globe nomination for Walk Hard: Best Original Song (shared with John C. Reilly, Judd Apatow, and Marshall Crenshaw), but lost to "Guaranteed" from Into the Wild (written by Eddie Vedder).

As a child, he made several appearances in his father's movies such as The Big Chill and Silverado (in the former he is an autograph seeker at a funeral and in the latter a stable boy).

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