Glasgow director Saul Metzstein has won an Emmy for his work on hit Apple TV spy drama Slow Horses.
Metzstein was named Outstanding Director for a Drama Series at the 78th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles for Scars, the explosive finale of the fifth series.
He beat competition including Vince Gilligan for Pluribus, Noah Wyle for The Pitt and Salli Richardson-Whitfield for The Gilded Age and Task.
The Television Academy confirmed Metzstein had collected the award for the episode at the ceremony on Monday night.
Born and raised in Glasgow, Metzstein has become one of Scotland’s most successful television directors.
He studied architecture at Cambridge before moving into film, working in production roles on major Scottish films including Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave and Trainspotting and Gillies MacKinnon’s Small Faces.
His breakthrough as a director came with the 2001 Glasgow-set film Late Night Shopping, which went on to win Best Feature Film at the BAFTA Scotland awards.
Metzstein’s television credits have since included Doctor Who, Ripper Street, Upstairs Downstairs and Brassic.
He has developed a particularly strong association with Slow Horses, directing all six episodes of its third series before returning to direct the entire fifth series.
His work on the third series previously earned him an Emmy nomination, while he won the Director Fiction award at the BAFTA Scotland Awards in 2024 for Slow Horses.
The Apple TV drama stars Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, the unconventional head of Slough House, where MI5 agents who have damaged their careers are sent to work.
Scars was the finale of series five, which was adapted from Mick Herron’s novel London Rules and saw the Slow Horses attempting to prevent a final attack in London.
Scottish actor Jack Lowden, who plays River Cartwright in the series, was also nominated at this year’s Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, although the award went to Task star Tom Pelphrey.
Metzstein’s win comes just as Slow Horses prepares to return to screens, with the sixth series launching on Apple TV on Wednesday 16 September.