American film producer
Michael Sugar
Nationality American Occupation(s) Film and television producer Years active 2002–present
Michael Sugar is an American film and television producer and principal at Sugar23, best known for producing Spotlight , 13 Reasons Why , Maniac and The Knick .
Life and career
Sugar attended the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in New Mexico after which he completed his undergraduate studies in 1995 at Brandeis University . He went on to study law at Georgetown University . He is the son of the producer/distributor Larry Sugar and is married to Lauren Wall Sugar. He is Jewish .[1]
Sugar's list of literary and talent clients includes Steven Soderbergh , Richard Linklater , Cary Fukunaga , Edgar Wright , Marc Webb , Patty Jenkins and Robin Wright .
He was previously an executive producer of Cinemax’s critically acclaimed drama series The Knick , starring Clive Owen and directed by Steven Soderbergh. He is currently[when? ] an executive producer of the Netflix series, The OA (co-created by Zal Batmanglij client Brit Marling , who also stars), Maniac (starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill , and directed by client Cary Fukunaga ) and 13 Reasons Why (starring Dylan Minnette and Katherine Langford ).
On the film side, Sugar won an Academy Award for Best Picture as producer of Spotlight (2015), starring Mark Ruffalo , Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams . Through his Sugar23 banner, he is[when? ] actively producing a lengthy development slate, including projects from clients Soderbergh, Cary Fukunaga and Patty Jenkins .
Sugar is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and lectures regularly at USC, NYU, Columbia and the American Film Institute . He has been nominated for an Emmy Award , and in 2014 he won a Peabody Award for The Knick.[2]
Academy Award for Best Picture
1990s
Dances with Wolves – Producer(s): Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs – Producer(s): Ron Bozman , Edward Saxon , and Kenneth Utt (1991)
Unforgiven – Producer(s): Clint Eastwood (1992)
Schindler's List – Producer(s): Branko Lustig , Gerald R. Molen , and Steven Spielberg (1993)
Forrest Gump – Producer(s): Wendy Finerman , Steve Starkey , and Steve Tisch (1994)
Braveheart – Producer(s): Bruce Davey , Mel Gibson , and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
The English Patient – Producer(s): Saul Zaentz (1996)
Titanic – Producer(s): James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
Shakespeare in Love – Producer(s): Donna Gigliotti , Marc Norman , David Parfitt , Harvey Weinstein , and Edward Zwick (1998)
American Beauty – Producer(s): Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)
2000s
Gladiator – Producer(s): David Franzoni , Branko Lustig , and Douglas Wick (2000)
A Beautiful Mind – Producer(s): Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (2001)
Chicago – Producer(s): Martin Richards (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Producer(s): Peter Jackson , Barrie M. Osborne , and Fran Walsh (2003)
Million Dollar Baby – Producer(s): Clint Eastwood , Tom Rosenberg , and Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
Crash – Producer(s): Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman (2005)
The Departed – Producer(s): Graham King (2006)
No Country for Old Men – Producer(s): Ethan Coen, Joel Coen , and Scott Rudin (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire – Producer(s): Christian Colson (2008)
The Hurt Locker – Producer(s): Kathryn Bigelow , Mark Boal , Nicolas Chartier , and Greg Shapiro (2009)
2010s
The King's Speech – Producer(s): Iain Canning , Emile Sherman , and Gareth Unwin (2010)
The Artist – Producer(s): Thomas Langmann (2011)
Argo – Producer(s): Ben Affleck , George Clooney , and Grant Heslov (2012)
12 Years a Slave – Producer(s): Dede Gardner , Anthony Katagas , Jeremy Kleiner , Steve McQueen , and Brad Pitt (2013)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Producer(s): Alejandro G. Iñárritu , John Lesher , and James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
Spotlight – Producer(s): Blye Pagon Faust , Steve Golin , Nicole Rocklin , and Michael Sugar (2015)
Moonlight – Producer(s): Dede Gardner , Jeremy Kleiner , and Adele Romanski (2016)
The Shape of Water – Producer(s): J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017)
Green Book – Producer(s): Jim Burke , Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly , Nick Vallelonga , and Charles B. Wessler (2018)
Parasite – Producer(s): Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019)
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