Missing Directing credits on 2 Game of Thrones episodes

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Two episodes of Game of Thrones, “Walk of Punishment” (S3E3) and “Two Swords” (S4E1) Both has missing Director credits on their IMDb page. On S3E3 the credited director is David Benioff and in S4E1 it’s D. B. Weiss, as presented in the opening titles of said episodes.

However it is known that both showrunners, David and D. B. Directed both these episodes, it’s only because the director’s guild rules permit 2 directors to be credited on a single TV episode that they switched the credit between two episodes. On official HBO Inside the Episode videos of these seasons you can see both are presented as directors of these episodes and also this article further confirms it

http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/26/game-thro...

I think D. B. Should get an ‘uncredited’ title on the directors list on the IMDB page for Walk of Punishment and David for Two Swords because they were actually directors too on these ones. When I try to update this info myself it gets rejected.

Thanks!
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Hello, OrrDvir.

If that actually can be confirmed and (EW seems like a trustful source), then they should indeed be listed with "(uncredited)", as in case of earlier works by The Coen Brothers.  
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Hi OrrDvir -

As Nikolay mentioned above, if you have evidence to verify that the individuals did work on the episodes in a director role but their names were not credited on-screen, you are welcome to submit the missing "uncredited" Director credits through our online Update form for those episodes. 

You mentioned that when you submit the information it is rejected, if this is still the case, can you post the most recent submission reference number here?
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Hey,

These are the numbers of the submitions

Season 3 Episode 3- 170926-170222-281000
Season 4 Episode 1- 170926-170126-673000

Thanks!
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Hi OrrDvir -

Thanks for posting the submission details, I was able to see that these updates were not accepted because our editors were unable to verify the credit information and will need to see further evidence.  In addition to the EW link you initially posted, do you have any other links to verify the individuals directed these episodes?
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In this S3 video from HBO you can see D. B. Weiss is also credited as “Director episode 3”:

https://youtu.be/7A8M-dakMVc

Same here with David on episode 1 (S4)

https://youtu.be/gYTm-3Xsu14
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Hi OrrDvir -

Thanks for posting the verifying links, the "uncredited" Director credits for Mr. Weiss and Mr. Benioff have now been added for these two episodes and the changes should be live on the site shortly.  Cheers!
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