Scott Rudin is an American film producer
and a theatrical producer in 2012 Rudin
became one of the few people who have
won an Emmy Grammy Oscar and Tony Award
and the first producer to do so early
life and work Scott Rudin was born in
new york city new york on july 14 1958
and raised in a Jewish family in the
town of Baldwin on Long Island at the
age of 16 he started working as an
assistant to theater producer Kermit
bloom garden later he worked for
producers Robert Whitehead and Emmanuel
azenberg in New of attending college
Rudin took a job as a casting director
and ended up starting his own company
his newly minted firm cast numerous
Broadway shows including Annie for Mike
Nichols he also cast PBS's verna USO
girl starring spacek and william
hurt and the Scarlet Letter miniseries
starring meg Foster Kevin Conway and
John heard also the film's king of the
gypsies the Wanderers Simon with Alan
Arkin and resurrection Rudin is openly
gay career producer in 1980 Rudin moved
to Los Angeles taking up employment at
Edgar Jay sherick associates where he
served as producer on a variety of films
including iron dancing as fast as I can
the NBC miniseries little Gloria happy
at last and the oscar-winning
documentary he makes me feel like
dancing after his stint at Edgar Jay
sherick associates rude informed his own
outfit Scott Rudin productions his first
film under that banner was Gillian
Armstrong's mrs. soffel but not long
after Rudin placed his production
shingle in dormancy and joined 20th
Century Fox as an executive producer at
Fox he met Jonathan dolgin a higher
level executive with whom he would be
working once again at Paramount Pictures
years later Rudin swiftly rose through
the ranks at Fox and became president of
production by 1986 at the age of 29 his
stint at the top of Fox was short-lived
though and he soon
and entered into a producing deal with
paramount paramount and Tristar on
august first 1992 at the age of 34 Rudin
signed a deal with Tristar pictures but
soon moved back to Paramount Rudin's
first-look deal with Paramount Pictures
lasted nearly 15 years producing
pictures like Addams Family Values after
the resignation of paramount's
chairwoman Sherry Lansing in 2004 and
nearly simultaneous departure of
Jonathan doljen Rudin left the studio
and set a five-year first look packed
with Disney that allowed him to make
movies under their labels touchstone
pictures Walt Disney Pictures Hollywood
pictures and miramax films since Harvey
and Bob Weinstein had left miramax the
company they founded in nineteen
seventy-nine Rudin felt he would be free
at Disney to utilize its resources Laura
M hulse enough the New York Times wrote
on April 21st 2005 Rudin is likely to
fill the gap left by the departure of
Harvey and Bob Weinstein by providing
the sort of high-quality offbeat art
films that Disney has struggled to
create on its own when the weinsteins
were running miramax and its sister
label dimension films however Harvey
Weinstein and Rudin two of the hottest
heads in Hollywood had public
confrontations during the production of
the hours which Rudin produced for
miramax films after it became a mini
major studio subsidiary under Disney
Rudin said in an interview with the Los
Angeles Times there is one shop in town
Miramax that is making challenging
movies I think it's incredible that he
Weinstein has found a way to run a
business making these kind of movies
however we are both control freaks we
both want to run our own shows when i'm
doing a miramax movie i work for him and
i don't like that feeling i chafe under
that
especially chafe under it when I feel
that I'm on a leash Rudin has also been
known to chafe when by his claims his
staff refuses to wake up and quite
frequently neglects to use their heads
in the film swimming with sharks many
rumors circulate about whom the movie
mogul buddy Ackerman as played by Kevin
Spacey is based on one is that the
character was inspired by real-life
movie mogul Scott Rudin films over the
years Rudin is produced a diverse array
of films ranging from widely distributed
arthouse fair to mainstream Hollywood
features he has been responsible for
films by Jack coches John schlessinger
Mike Nichols and first-time directors
Jodie Foster and barry sonnenfeld sannin
Feld's the addams family became a major
franchise and emil arda leno's hit
sister act with Whoopi Goldberg and
Maggie Smith spawned a sequel Rudin had
a string of box-office failures in the
early 90s highlighted by white sands
Jennifer eight in life with Mikey all
three movies struggled among that year's
competitive summer slate however Rudin
was soon redeemed by the star-studded
legal thriller the firm which was his
most profitable movie to date with a 270
million two hundred forty eight thousand
three hundred sixty seven dollars
worldwide gross and searching for Bobby
Fischer which garnered critical acclaim
surprisingly shortly before Bobby
Fischer was released Fisher himself the
renowned young chess prodigy popped out
of hiding in Yugoslavia after 20 years
in seclusion at the time Rudin was
quoted by army archerd of variety as
saying I'm not concerned about the
re-emergence of Fisher it can only be
good to help publicize the picture he
Fischer is never seen in the movie euro
he never appears subsequently Rudin
oversaw production of the romantic
comedy IQ starring meg Ryan and tim
robbins the Paul Newman film nobody's
fool the Dark Horse hit clueless a
breakout movie for Alicia Silverstone
Sydney Pollack's remake Sabrina in 1996
he produced the First Wives Club a hit
comedy starring Bette Midler Goldie Hawn
and I an Keaton Keaton also starred
alongside Meryl Streep and Robert De
Niro in Marvin's Room a film that also
featured a young Leonardo DiCaprio
playing an emotionally disturbed boy
both were produced by Rudin later in 96
Rudin teamed with producer Brian Grazer
on Ron Howard's ransom which starred Mel
Gibson Rene Russo and Gary Sinise grazer
had to get an exemption from his deal at
Universal Pictures to join Rudin on that
project which has been the only movie
the two powerhouse producers have worked
on together along with Robert Redford
Rudin also co-produced Stephens aliens
adaptation of Jonathan 'has non-fiction
book a civil action starring john
travolta and Robert Duvall in the movie
the two stars play opposing lawyers who
represent the residents of Woburn
Massachusetts on the one hand and the
multi-million dollar corporations
beatrice foods and grace industries on
the other the film dramatizes events of
the lawsuit which produced the largest
environmental out-of-court settlement in
Massachusetts history at a total of
sixty nine point four million dollars
through the 90s Rudin was a prolific
producer putting together movies that
include the following in and out
starring kevin kline the hit movie The
Truman Show with Jim Carrey the Matt
Stone and Trey Parker developed movies
South Park bigger longer and uncut and
team america world police Martin
Scorsese's bringing out the dead sleepy
hollow with Johnny Depp Wonderboys
starring Michael Douglas and tobey
maguire based on the award-winning novel
by Michael Chabon shaft the remake with
samuel l jackson the hit comedy
Zoolander starring ben stiller and owen
wilson three of wiis Anderson's arthouse
ensemble cast hits the royal tenenbaums
the life aquatic with steve zissou and
the darjeeling limited
the well-received Jack Black starrer
School of Rock Orange County written by
school of rock writer Mike White The
Manchurian Candidate with Meryl Streep
Denzel Washington and liev schreiber
Richard Aires iris starring Judy Dench
and Jim Broadbent the latter of whom won
an Oscar for his supporting role in the
film The Stepford Wives starring nicole
kidman matthew broderick Glenn Close
Christopher Walken and Bette Midler m
night shyamalan's the village with bryce
dallas howard joeack in phoenix Adrien
Brody William Hurt and cigna Weaver
David O Russell's I Heart Huckabees with
Jason Schwartzman Jude Law Dustin
Hoffman mark wahlberg and Naomi Watts ax
Mike Nichols closer starring natalie
portman Jude Law clive owen and Julia
Roberts Lemony Snicket's A Series of
Unfortunate Events starring Jim Carrey
Jude Law and meryl streep freedom land
with samuel l jackson and failure to
launch starring Sarah Jessica Parker and
Matthew McConaughey among many others
his most recent films include 2006's
notes on a scandal starring cate
blanchett and Judi Dench and based on
the best-selling book what was she
thinking notes on a scandal Venus
starring Peter O'Toole and the Queen
starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth
to a role that won her an Oscar for Best
Actress O'Toole and Dench were also
nominated for oscars in the 2006-2007
season for their leading roles in their
respective films only Mirren one notes
on a scandal received three other Oscar
nominations blanket for supporting role
Patrick Marber for Best Adapted
Screenplay and Philip Glass academy
award for best original score' most
notably the Queen was nominated for best
picture at the academy awards along with
Stephen Frears for Best Director and
Peter Morgan for best original
screenplay he will possibly take part in
paramount pictures 2009 musical remake
of footloose starring k
wormald julianne hough and dennis quaid
in 2007 Rudin produced Margo at the
wedding a tragic comedy about a
dysfunctional family starring Nicole
Kidman Jack Black and Jennifer Jason
Leigh and weez Anderson's the darjeeling
limited Rudin developed adaptations of
the novels The Corrections special
topics in calamity physics the Pulitzer
prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of
Kavalier and clay and blood meridian he
recently produced the following projects
among many others the other boleyn girl
based on the best-selling novel of the
same name and starring Natalie Portman
Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana Kenneth
lonegan's Margaret with anna paquin wees
Anderson's picture fantastic mr fox
based on the roald dahl book of the same
name and starring george clooney Meryl
Streep Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman
the David Fincher directed screenplay by
Aaron Sorkin about the formation of
Facebook the social network and in
development is David Gordon Green's the
goat an untitled allan ball project
Rudin is also currently in the early
production stages of an adaptation of
the upcoming Ben Mezrich book sex on the
moon which follows the true story of
NASA interns Thad Roberts and Tiffany
Fowler as they scheme to steal and make
love among a collection of lunar rocks
locked away in the Houston space center
in 2002 the book is set for publishing
in February 2011 honors in January 2008
two of Rudin's production say euro the
Coen brothers No Country for Old Men
which they adapted from the Cormac
McCarthy book of the same name and paul
thomas anderson's there will be blood
which was adapted from the Upton
Sinclair novel oil a euro were nominated
for eight Oscars apiece at the 2008
academy awards including a Best Picture
nod for each of them the two films
shared the distinction of being the most
nominated movie at that year's Oscar
ceremony ultimately no country for old
men won the Best Picture prize at the
2011 producers guild of america awards
Scott Rudin became the only person ever
to be nominated to
ice in one year he was nominated for
producing the Facebook biographical film
the social network and was also
nominated for their remake of the
classic western true grit that same year
the PGA also awarded Rudin the david o
Seljuk achievement award in motion
pictures which recognizes an
individual's outstanding body of work in
the field of motion picture production
theatre Rudin also continues to produce
for the theater he co-produced the
unsuccessful staging of David Henry
Hwang's face value with Stewart Ostrow
and jus James in theaters he started a
deal with jus Jamison to develop and
produce new plays for the theater chain
in 1994 Rudin won Best Musical tony
award for his production of Stephen Sun
time and james lepine spash on the
following year he along with others
produced Kathleen Turner's Broadway come
back indiscretions and Ralph ins new
york theatre debut in hamlet in 1996
Rudin produced the revival of the
Stephen son team and Larry Gelbart
musical a funny thing happened on the
way to the forum which starred Nathan
Lane ernie sabella and mark linn-baker
he also produced the goat or who is
Sylvia seven guitars the ride damn mount
morgan Copenhagen deuce who's afraid of
virginia woolf The History Boys Beckett
Albie closer the Blue Room and doubt
2010 he co-produced along with Carol
shorenstein Hayes the broadway revival
of august wilson's pulitzer
prize-winning play fences starring
denzel washington and Viola Davis which
garnered 10 Tony Award nominations and
three wins including Best revival of a
play he has 15 Tony's and five drama
desk awards for his productions Rudin is
currently the lead producer for the
Broadway musical The Book of Mormon
which opened in March 2011 at the eugene
o'neill theatre and 19 tony awards
including best musical filmography
references external links scott rudin at
the Internet Movie Database Scott Rudin
productions at the Internet Movie
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