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Oscar for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is...
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Lucien Hubbard
Lucien Hubbard (December 22, 1888 – December 31, 1971) was a film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for producing Wings, for which he received the first Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Harry Rapf
Harry Rapf (16 October 1882 New York City – 6 February 1949 Los Angeles) was a Jewish American producer. He began his career in 1917, and during a 20 year career became a well-known producer of films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He created the comedic...
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Carl Laemmle Jr.
Carl Laemmle Jr. (28 April 1908 – 24 September 1979) was in charge of production at Universal Studios from about 1928 to 1936. He was the son of Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures. Laemmle, called “Junior”, by his friends and family,...
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Winfield R. Sheehan
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William LeBaron
William LeBaron (16 February 1883 - 9 February 1958), was a film producer, whose credits included Cimarron, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 4th Academy Awards ceremony for 1930 / 1931.
He was married to Mabel Hollins, who was a...
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Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937),...
Harry Cohn
Harry Cohn (23 July 1891 – 27 February 1958) was the American president and production director of Columbia Pictures.
Cohn was born to a working-class German-Jewish family in New York City. In later years, he appears to have disparaged his heritage....
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Hunt Stromberg
Hunt Stromberg (July 12, 1894 - August 23, 1968) was a film producer during Hollywood's Golden Age. In a prolific 30-year career beginning in 1921, Stromberg produced, wrote, and directed some of Hollywood's most profitable and enduring films,...
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RKO Pictures
RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures is an American film production and distribution company. As Radio Pictures Inc. and then RKO Radio Pictures Inc., it was one of the so-called Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed...
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Universal Studios
Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal City Studios or Universal for short), a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six major American movie studios. Its main motion picture production/distribution arm is called Universal Pictures. Its...
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Irving Thalberg
Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899 – September 14, 1936) was an Academy Award-winning American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and his extraordinary ability to select the right...
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Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (CPII) is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese...
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Albert Lewin
Albert Lewin (1894–1968) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 23, 1894 and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a Master's degree at Harvard and taught English at the University...
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Henry Blanke
Henry Blanke (December 30, 1901 – May 28, 1981) was a German-born film producer who also worked as an assistant director, supervisor, writer, and production manager. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Nun's Story (1959)....
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Selznick International Pictures
Selznick International Pictures was a Hollywood motion picture studio.
It was founded in 1935 by producer David O. Selznick and investor John Hay "Jock" Whitney after Selznick left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and leased a section of the RKO Pictures lot in...
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20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (spelled from 1934 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation), also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox, is one of the six major American film studios. Located in the Century City area of...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., or MGM, is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro...
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Warner Bros. Pictures, or simply Warner Bros.—the shortened form of the former official, sometimes still used, formal corporate name: Warner Brothers) is a producer of film and television entertainment...
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is a Worldwide American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is the world's oldest...
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austrian-American journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of...
Samuel Goldwyn Studio
Samuel Goldwyn Studio was the name that Samuel Goldwyn used to refer to the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios lot and the offices and stages that his company, Goldwyn Pictures, rented there during the 1920s and 1930s. Because several independent producers...
Robert Rossen Productions
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Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 – April 12, 1973) was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was an American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer.
Freed began his career as a song plugger and pianist in Chicago. After meeting...
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Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies.
DeMille was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts...
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907–March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-American film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons.
Zinnemann was born to a Jewish family in Vienna,...
Maurice Adler
E. Maurice "Buddy" Adler (June 22, 1909 – July 22, 1960) was an Academy Award-winning American film producer and a former production head for 20th Century Fox studios.
Born in New York City, New York, he married in 1940 actress Anita Louise Fremault...
Sam Spiegel
Sam Spiegel (11 November 1901 – 31 December 1985) was an independent Academy Award-winning film producer.
Spiegel was born in Jaroslau, Austria (now Jaroslaw, Poland) as Samuel P. Spiegel to a German-Jewish father and Polish mother and educated at...
Harold Hecht
Harold Hecht (June 1, 1907 – May 26, 1985), born in New York City, was an American film producer.
Harold Hecht started his involvement with the New York stage at age 16. He appeared in numerous classical stage productions and later danced with the...
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Mike Todd
Michael Todd (June 22, 1907, – March 22, 1958) was an American theatre and film producer, best known for his 1956 production of Around the World in Eighty Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. He is also well-known as one of Elizabeth...
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Sam Zimbalist
Sam Zimbalist (1904 – 1958) was an American film producer.
He began his career at 16 as a film cutter at Metro Studios. He remained with Metro when the studio merged with the Goldwyn Company in 1924 and became MGM.
He was promoted to assistant...
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Robert Wise
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director. Among his films are Citizen Kane (as an editor); The Sand Pebbles; Born to Kill; The Sound of Music; West Side...
Tony Richardson
Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director and producer.
Richardson was born in Shipley, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans (Campion) and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist. He...
Jack Warner
Jack Leonard "J.L." Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, Canada, was the president and driving force behind the successful development of Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
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Walter Mirisch
Walter Mortimer Mirisch (born 8 November 1921) is an American film producer. In his long and successful motion picture career, Walter Mirisch has produced some of the industry’s finest and most memorable films. He is President and Executive Head of...
Sir John Woolf
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Jerome Hellman
Jerome Hellman (born September 4, 1928 in New York City) is an American film producer. He is perhaps best known for being the producer of the 42nd recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1969, Midnight Cowboy. His 1978 film, Coming Home...
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Frank McCarthy
Frank McCarthy (June 8, 1912 – December 1, 1986) graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, Class of 1933. He worked as an executive producer for 20th Century Fox and Universal following retirement from the military.
During his career in the...
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Philip D'Antoni
Philip D’Antoni (Born February 19, 1929 in New York, NY), is a film producer.
D'Antoni won an Academy Award in 1971 for the Best Picture, for The French Connection. He also won a Golden Globe award in 1972 for the Best Motion Picture Drama for The...
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Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips (April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning film producer and author.
Born Julia Miller in New York City, she received her B.A. in Political Science from Mount Holyoke College in 1965, where she met Michael Phillips...
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Tony Bill
Gerard Anthony "Tony" Bill (born 23 August 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director. He produced the 1973 movie The Sting, for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips. The Sting became...
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Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips (born June 29, 1943) is a film producer.
Michael Phillips, his then-wife Julia Phillips, and Tony Bill received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing The Sting in 1973. The Phillips's were the first husband-and-wife team...
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an Italian-American film director, producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied...
Gray Frederickson
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Fred Roos
Fred Roos (May 22, 1934, Santa Monica, California) is a American film producer.
Beginning in television as a casting director for The Andy Griffith Show, Roos went on to produce most of Francis Ford Coppola's films subsequent to The Godfather,...
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Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler (born May 25, 1931) is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of 50 major motion pictures, dating back to 1967's Double Trouble, starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, They Shoot Horses,...
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Robert Chartoff
Robert Chartoff (born August 26, 1933) is a Academy Award-winning film producer. His most notable works include The Right Stuff (1983), and the Rocky movies, which he co-produced with Irwin Winkler. He has an adopted daughter named Miranda. He also...
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Charles H Joffe
Charles H. Joffe (July 16, 1929 - July 9, 2008) was an American film producer. He is most well known as being, in partnership with Jack Rollins, the producer, and sometimes also executive producer, of virtually all of the films directed by Woody...
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Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino (pronounced [ˈtʃamɪnəʊ], born 3 February 1939, New York City) is an American film director. He is often cited as an example of the meteoric rises and falls seen in Hollywood in the 1970s.
Michael Cimino was born in New York City, New...
Barry Spikings
Barry Spikings (born 23 November 1939) is a British film producer who worked in Hollywood. Spikings is best known as the producer of the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter, which won several Academy Awards.
Spikings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. After...
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Michael Deeley
Michael Deeley (born 6 August 1932) is an Academy Award-winning film producer who has helped create notable films such as The Italian Job, Blade Runner and The Deer Hunter. He is also a founding member and Deputy Chairman of The British Screen...
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John Peverall
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Stanley R. Jaffe
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Ronald L. Schwary
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David Puttnam
David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, FRSA, (born 25 February 1941) is a film producer and politician. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords.
He was educated at Minchenden Grammar School in London and had an early career in...
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Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born 29 August 1923) is an English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes. He is the elder brother of...
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York...
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 — May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where...
Arnold Kopelson
Arnold Kopelson (born in New York City, USA, February 14, 1935) is an Academy Award-winning American film producer.
Among his credits are Platoon, Seven, Outbreak, The Fugitive and The Devil's Advocate.
After earning a Doctorate in Jurisprudence...
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Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. Douglas's first television exposure was that of Karl Malden's young college-educated partner, Insp. Steve Keller, in the 1970s...
