List of film producers
The following is a list of notable film producers, some of whom have also worked in other media.
- This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
(list is sorted alphabetically by surname)
A–M
- Abdisalam Aato – Xaaskayga Araweelo
- J. J. Abrams – Lost, Cloverfield, Alias, Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek, Fringe
- Moustapha Akkad – Halloween
- Judd Apatow – The Cable Guy, Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Freaks and Geeks
- Avi Arad – Spider-Man, X-Men, Blade
- Drew Barrymore – Donnie Darko, Never Been Kissed, Duplex, Music and Lyrics, Charlie's Angels
- Lawrence Bender – Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, An Inconvenient Truth, Reservoir Dogs, Good Will Hunting
- Armyan Bernstein – Air Force One, The Hurricane, Children of Men, Bring It On
- Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli – James Bond film series
- Mel Brooks – The Elephant Man, The Fly, Frances, 84 Charing Cross Road, Young Frankenstein
- Jerry Bruckheimer – Top Gun, Crimson Tide, The Rock, Con Air, National Treasure, Pirates of the Caribbean film series, CSI (franchise)
- Sandra Bullock – Hope Floats, Gun Shy, Miss Congeniality, Murder By Numbers, Two Weeks Notice, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, All About Steve, George Lopez (TV series)
- Tim Burton – The Nightmare Before Christmas, Cabin Boy, James and the Giant Peach, 9
- Mark Burnett – Son of God
- Jim Carrey – Bruce Almighty, Fun with Dick and Jane
- Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra – Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Veer-Zaara, Dhoom 2
- Raymond Chow – The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Enter the Dragon, Project A, Winners and Sinners, Game of Death, Game of Death II
- Ethan Coen – Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, No Country for Old Men
- Tom Cruise – Mission: Impossible, Vanilla Sky, Narc, The Others, Minority Report, War Of The Worlds, The Last Samurai, Shattered Glass
- Dean Devlin – Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot
- Lorenzo di Bonaventura – Constantine, Shooter, Transformers
- Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator, The 11th Hour
- Michael Douglas – Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
- Eric Eisner – Risky Business, Beetlejuice, Hamlet 2
- Nora Ephron – Michael, You've Got Mail, Bewitched
- Robert Evans – Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown, The Saint
- Chantal Feghali – Alexander, Cloverfield, Terminator Salvation, World Trade Center, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Score, Sleepy Hollow, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
- Buzz Feitshans – Rambo, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Ted Field – The Amityville Horror, The Last Samurai, Runaway Bride, What Dreams May Come, Jumanji, Revenge of the Nerds
- Peter Fonda – Easy Rider
- Mel Gibson – Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ
- Richard N. Gladstein – Finding Neverland, The Bourne Identity, Pulp Fiction, The Cider House Rules
- Charles Gordon – Field of Dreams, Waterworld, Die Hard, Die Hard 2
- Brian Grazer – Splash, Parenthood, Apollo 13, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code
- Matt Groening – The Simpsons, Futurama, The Simpsons Movie
- Paul Haggis – Crash, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima
- Tom Hanks – Cast Away, Band of Brothers, Mamma Mia, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Polar Express, Evan Almighty, My Life in Ruins, City of Ember, The Pacific
- Katherine Heigl – Side Effects, The Ugly Truth, Life as We Know It
- Nancy Heigl – The Ugly Truth, Life as We Know It
- David Heyman – Harry Potter film series
- Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings film series, King Kong, District 9, The Hobbit film series
- Shintaro Katsu – Shogun Assassin, Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
- Howard Kazanjian – Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, Demolition Man
- Kathleen Kennedy – The Sixth Sense, Always, Munich, Jurassic Park
- Alexander Korda – Things to Come, The Four Feathers, The Thief of Bagdad
- Stanley Kubrick – Fear and Desire, Killer's Kiss, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut
- Gary Kurtz – Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Crystal
- J. F. Lawton – Under Siege, V.I.P., Jackson
- Spike Lee – Crooklyn, Malcolm X
- George Lucas – Star Wars, Indiana Jones
- Branko Lustig – Schindler's List, Gladiator
- Charlie Lyons – The Guardian, The Water Horse, The Half Life of Timofey Berezin, Mardi Gras
- Eric Manes – Voices of Iraq
- Frank Marshall – The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Back to the Future trilogy, Jurassic Park, The Sixth Sense
- W. David McBrayer – Beat the Drum
- Rick McCallum – Star Wars
- Aaron Meyerson – Genius (1999 Film), Meet The Deedles
- Arnon Milchan – Pretty Woman, Natural Born Killers, L.A. Confidential, City of Angels, Entrapment, Fight Club, Unfaithful, Daredevil, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Fountain, What Happens in Vegas
- Walter Mirisch – West Side Story, The Sound of Music
- Hayao Miyazaki – Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Whisper of the Heart
- Scott Mosier – Clerks, 'Mallrats, Chasing Amy
N–Z
- Michael Nozik – Syriana, The Motorcycle Diaries, Quiz Show, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Mississippi Masala
- Tyler Perry – Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea's Family Reunion
- Jon Peters
- Julia Phillips – The Sting, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Hal Roach – Our Gang
- Robert Rodriguez – El Mariachi, Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, Grindhouse
- Albert S. Ruddy – The Godfather, Million Dollar Baby, The Longest Yard
- Scott Rudin – No Country for Old Men, School of Rock, The Royal Tenenbaums, Clueless
- Harry Saltzman – James Bond, Battle of Britain, The Ipcress File
- Adam Sandler – The Waterboy, Big Daddy, Little Nicky, The Animal, Mr. Deeds, Eight Crazy Nights, The Hot Chick, Anger Management, 50 First Dates, The Longest Yard, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Click, Joe Dirt, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
- Martin Scorsese – The Grifters, Naked in New York, The Aviator
- David O. Selznick – King Kong, Gone with the Wind, The Third Man
- Run Run Shaw
- Daryush Shokof – Seven Servants, Iran Zendan,Heaven's Taxi
- Joel Silver – The Matrix, Lethal Weapon, Predator, Veronica Mars, V for Vendetta
- Dean Silvers – Flirting with Disaster, Spanking the Monkey, Manny & Lo, Wigstock: The Movie
- John Singleton – Boyz n the Hood
- Sam Spiegel – The African Queen, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia
- Steven Spielberg – The Goonies, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist, Transformers (executive)
- Ben Stiller – Blades of Glory, Zoolander, The Ruins, Tropic Thunder
- Shobuj Taposh – Cycle, Chittagong, Bangladesh
- Quentin Tarantino – From Dusk till Dawn, Hostel, Grindhouse
- Irving Thalberg – Mutiny on the Bounty, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Grand Hotel, A Night at the Opera
- Hal B. Wallis – The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca
- Fran Walsh – The Lord of the Rings, King Kong, The Lovely Bones, Halo
- Robert Watts – Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, You Only Live Twice
- Harvey Weinstein
- Ralph Winter – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, X-Men, Fantastic Four, X2: X-Men United
- Christopher Woodrow
- Saul Zaentz – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The English Patient
- Darryl F. Zanuck – The Grapes of Wrath, All About Eve, The Longest Day
- Robert Zemeckis – The Frighteners, Matchstick Men, Monster House
- Warren Zide – American Pie franchise, Final Destination franchise, Cats & Dogs, The Big Hit, High School (coming soon to theaters)
See also
- Film director
- Filmmaking
- Lists of film topics
- List of television producers
- Producers Guild of America
References
- The Producer's Business Handbook by John J. Lee, Jr., Focal Press (2000)
- From Reel to Deal by Dov S-S Simens, Warner Books (2003)
External links
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