Brent "Bucky" Gunts is a multiple

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-winning

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currently serving as Head of Production for

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. He is a director for NBC's Olympics coverage and has won four

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s for Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special for NBC's coverage of the opening ceremony at various games, most recently for the

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. The 2010 award was presented at the televised ceremony by

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, who joked about the director's name. Gunts also directs NBC's primetime studio coverage throughout the Olympic Games, and has directed the ''

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'' studio show and NBC's golf coverage. He previously served as a director of the ''

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'', the network's baseball coverage, and ''

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''. According to NBC, he had won a total of twenty Emmy Awards as of February 2010.

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