The Night Of was co-directed by a European director.
James Marsh ( born 30 April 1963 ) is a British film and documentary director best known for his work on Man on Wire , which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature , and The Theory of Everything , the multi-award winning biopic of physicist Stephen Hawking released in 2014 . The Night Of . The miniseries was written by Richard Price and Steven Zaillian and directed by Zaillian and James Marsh .