2012

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Producer

Mark Gordon

Bio

MARK GORDON is an award-winning producer with more than 70 motion picture and television projects to his credit.

Gordon's upcoming motion picture releases include The Messenger starring Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson which won the peace prize at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Gordon is currently shooting The Details with Tobey Maguire and Laura Linney.

Gordon’s motion picture credits include the epic adventure 10,000 BC, directed by Roland Emmerich; Kasi Lemmons’ Talk to Me, starring Don Cheadle; The Hoax, directed by Lasse Hallstrom and starring Richard Gere; and John Curran’s The Painted Veil, starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts; Casanova, starring Heath Ledger and directed by Lasse Hallstrom; Hostage, starring Bruce Willis; the Roland Emmerich-directed films The Day After Tomorrow, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid, and The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson; Paulie, which won a BAFTA Award for Best Children’s Film; Broken Arrow, starring John Travolta; and Jan de Bont’s action hit Speed, which catapulted Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock to international stardom.

For television, Gordon is currently executive producer on the smash hit ABC series “Grey’s Anatomy,” spin-off series “Private Practice,” as well as the hit CBS drama “Criminal Minds,” Lifetime’s “Army Wives,” and the CW’s “Reaper.”

As an executive producer, Gordon’s film credits include Prime, starring Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman; The Matador, starring Pierce Brosnan; Sam Raimi’s A Simple Plan; and The Jackal, starring Richard Gere, Bruce Willis and Sidney Poitier.

As a financier and international distributor Gordon's films include Tomb Raider starring Angelina Jolie; Wonder Boys, directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Michael Douglas; Man on the Moon, starring Jim Carrey under the direction of Milos Forman; and Mike Nichols’ Primary Colors, starring John Travolta.

Gordon has produced more than a dozen longform television projects. He served as an executive producer on the HBO film “Warm Springs,” starring Kenneth Branagh, which received 16 Emmy nominations, winning five, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie. He also executive produced HBO’s “And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself,” directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Antonio Banderas, which garnered nine Emmy Award nominations; and produced “The War Between the Classes,” for which Gordon won an Emmy for Best Children’s Program. He also directed and produced the Emmy nominated “Children Remember the Holocaust.”

Gordon is a five time Emmy nominee with two wins. He has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe Awards with two wins. He earned Academy Award® and BAFTA nominations and won a Golden Globe for Best Picture as producer of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. The film also won Best Picture honors from the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London and Broadcast Film Critics, among others, and brought Gordon a Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America.

Gordon’s first producing effort was the off-Broadway production of “The Buddy System” at Circle in the Square downtown.

Gordon is the former chairman of Teach for America Los Angeles and a former board member of The Holocaust Documentation and Information Center. He is the current Vice President of the Producers Guild of America and is a board member of the Virginia Film Festival, UCLA Lab School, The Archer School for Girls, The Jewish Television Network, Chrysalis and The Motion Picture and Television Fund.

He is a graduate of New York University Film School

Producer- Job Description

The chief of a movie production in all matters save the creative efforts of the director. A producer is responsible for raising funding, hiring key personnel, and arranging for distributors.