Nick Meyer

For the writer, producer and director associated with The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and Star Trek, see Nicholas Meyer.

Nick Meyer was the president of Paramount Vantage until December 2008.[1][2] In 2007, with Meyer as co-head of Paramount, the Studio received 19 Academy Award nominations.[3] Four of the Studio's 2007 feature films were honored: There Will Be Blood, a Paramount Vantage and Miramax co-production, received eight nominations; No Country for Old Men, also a Miramax and Paramount Vantage co-production, received eight nominations; Into the Wild earned two nominations; The Kite Runner garnered one nomination. At the 80th Academy Awards, Blood and No Country won a combined six awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture for No Country, the Academy Award for Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis in Blood, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem in No Country.

Formerly, Meyer was the long-time president of Lionsgate International, a division of Lionsgate Studios.[4] He is the head of Sierra Pictures, which he founded in 2009.[5][6][7] In 2010, Meyer formed White Knuckle Pictures with Brett Ratner to develop and finance moderately priced action films.[8] In 2011, his Sierra Pictures merged with film sales company Affinity International to become Sierra/Affinity.[9]

He is a graduate of Wesleyan University.[10]

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