Yudi Bennett (born 9 February 1950; age 75) is an assistant director who worked as first assistant director on Star Trek Generations. In addition, the name Yudi Bennett can be seen on the Enterprise-B dedication plaque in the same movie.
Bennett earned three Director's Guild Awards from the Director's Guild of America; in 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer, in 2001 for The Beach Boys: An American Family which she shared with Jules Kovisars, and in 2007 for Tony Bennett: An American Classic. In addition, she received the Frank Capra Achievement Award from the Guild in 2003.
Bennett started her work as second assistant director in the late '70s and worked on The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Willie & Phil (1980), and Stardust Memories (1980).
Throughout the years she worked as first assistant director for television productions and feature films including The Four Seasons (1981), The Chosen (1981), Author! Author! (1982), Mischief (1985, along with second assistant director Hans Beimler), Better Off Dead (1985), The Last Innocent Man (1987), the drama Baby M (1988), Betsy's Wedding (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992, along with assistant directors Debra Kent and Daniel Silverberg), Heart and Souls (1993, starring Alfre Woodard), The Client (1994), The Baby-Sitters Club (1995), The Game (1997, along with Rusty Mahmood), Pleasantville (1998), To Have & to Hold (1998), Annie (1999), The Beach Boys: An American Family (2000), Watching Ellie (2002-2003), and the television biography Tony Bennett: An American Classic (2006).
Since September 2011, Bennett has been working as Co-Founder and Director of Operations for Exceptional Minds Studio in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. In 2018, she was interviewed for the documentary This Changes Everything, along with Zoe Saldana, Sherry Lansing, and Susan Bay.