Brian Grazer

Film Producer

Brian Grazer was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on July 12th, 1951 and is the Film Producer. At the age of 72, Brian Grazer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Brian Thomas Grazer
Date of Birth
July 12, 1951
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, United States
Age
72 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Networth
$200 Million
Profession
Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Executive Producer, Film Producer, Screenwriter
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Brian Grazer Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 72 years old, Brian Grazer has this physical status:

Height
170cm
Weight
Not Available
Hair Color
Dark brown
Eye Color
Not Available
Build
Slim
Measurements
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Brian Grazer Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
University of Southern California
Brian Grazer Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Corki Corman, ​ ​(m. 1982; div. 1992)​, Gigi Levangie, ​ ​(m. 1997; div. 2007)​, Veronica Smiley ​(m. 2016)​
Children
4
Dating / Affair
Not Available
Parents
Not Available
Siblings
Jack Dylan Grazer (nephew)
Brian Grazer Life

Brian Thomas Grazer (born July 12, 1951) is an American film/TV director and occasionally a screenwriter.

He co-founded Imagine Entertainment with Ron Howard in 1986.

They've grossed over $13 billion on their films.

Splash (1984), Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Frost/Nixon (2008).

His films and TV series have been nominated for 43 Academy Awards and 187 Emmys. Grazer received an Oscar in 2002 for Best Picture for A Beautiful Mind (shared with Ron Howard).

In 2007, he was named one of Time's "Most Influential People in the World" as one of the world's top 100 people.

Early life

Grazer was born in Los Angeles, California, to Arlene Becker Grazer and criminal defense prosecutor Thomas Grazer. He is Nora Beth Grazer (born 1952), and actor/director Gavin Grazer (born 1961). He was raised in Sherman Oaks and Northridge in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.

Grazer's father was Catholic, but his mother is Jewish. When he was in high school, his parents divorced. "My best friend, the most important person in my growing up, was my little 4-foot-10 [147 cm] Jewish grandmother," Grazer said, "In order to get it, you have to do it." Brian, no one's going to get it for you.'"

Grazer had trouble with dyslexia while studying. Grazer's grade was disputed in school by reading other students' papers and arguing over his teachers' feedback.

Jack Dylan Grazer, his nephew, is a musician.

Education

Grazer was awarded a scholarship to the University of Southern California (USC) as a psychology major. In 1974, he graduated from the School of Cinema-Television in the United States. He attended USC Law School for a year, but he resigned in 1975 to pursue a life in Hollywood.

Personal life

Corki Corman (1982–92; they had two children; son Riley (born 1986) and daughter Sage (1988); and screenwriter Gigi Levangie (1997–2007; Thomas (1999) and Patrick (2004)). Grazer became engaged to Veronica Smiley, chief marketing officer of SBE, a hotel management company, in April 2014. They married on February 20, 2016.

Grazer resides in Santa Monica, California. On O'ahu's North Shore, he also has a home in Hawaii on Sunset Beach on the Banzai Pipeline. He is an avid jump ropes user.

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Brian Grazer Career

Career

Grazer began his career as a producer developing television projects. While executive-producing TV pilots at Paramount Pictures in the early 1980s, he met current long-time friend and business partner Ron Howard.

He produced his first feature-film, Night Shift, in 1982, directed by Howard. Grazer and Howard teamed up again for Splash in 1984, which Grazer produced and co-wrote. Splash earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay of 1984. Grazer went on to became an independent producer, teaming up with Tri-Star Pictures to set up plans for a film to star Richard Pryor, and had a continuing relationship with The Walt Disney Studios, and has plans to develop projects for Paramount Pictures.

In November 1985, Grazer and Howard co-founded Imagine Entertainment, which became one of Hollywood's most prolific and successful production companies. Over the years, Grazer's films and TV shows have been nominated for a total of 43 Academy Awards, and 198 Emmys. At the same time, his movies have generated over $15 billion in worldwide theatrical, music, and video grosses.

Grazer's early film successes include Parenthood (1989) and Backdraft (1991). He produced Apollo 13 (1995), for which he won the Producers Guild of America's Daryl F. Zanuck Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award, as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Picture of 1995.

In 1998, he earned two major honors: he was given his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and made a cameo appearance on the animated series The Simpsons.

In 2001, Grazer won an Academy Award for Best Picture for A Beautiful Mind, which also took home Oscars for Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Connelly), Best Director (Ron Howard), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Akiva Goldsman).

In 2002, Grazer's 8 Mile was released. It proved not only to be a huge box office hit, but also the first film with a rap song to win a Best Original Song Oscar, for Eminem's "Lose Yourself".

Grazer also produced the film adaptation of Peter Morgan's play Frost/Nixon (2008). Frost/Nixon was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Grazer's productions span over a quarter-of-a-century, and almost the full spectrum of movie genres. His comedies include Boomerang (1992), The Nutty Professor (1996), Liar Liar (1997), Life (1999), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Intolerable Cruelty (2003) and The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018). He has also produced many dramatic thrillers including Inside Man (2006), The Da Vinci Code (2006), American Gangster (2007), Changeling (2008), Angels & Demons (2009), Robin Hood (2010), and Cowboys & Aliens (2011). His recently released films include J. Edgar, the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic of J. Edgar Hoover, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tower Heist, starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, and Restless, directed by Gus Van Sant.

Grazer's Imagine Entertainment's television series include Sports Night, Felicity, Arrested Development, 24 with Kiefer Sutherland, Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, Lie to Me, Empire, Genius: Einstein, Genius: Picasso and Wu-Tang: An American Saga.

Grazer's recent productions includes Rebuilding Paradise, Dads, the 2017 Grammy awarding winning Best Music Film The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (2016), American Made (2017), Rush (2013), directed by Ron Howard, and starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl, and Made in America.

Grazer produced Get on Up, a biopic of the legendary "Godfather of Soul" James Brown, and In the Heart of the Sea, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, about the American whaleship the Essex.

In 2015, Grazer published his book A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, a #1 NY Times Bestseller, in which he discusses conversations with interesting people, many of whom inspired his work. In 2019, Grazer released his second book Face To Face: The Art of Human Connection.

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Brian Grazer Awards

Additional awards

  • 1998 – Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries for From the Earth to the Moon
  • 2001 – Producers Guild of America's David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures
  • 2003 – ShoWest Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2004 – Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for Arrested Development
  • 2006 – Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for 24
  • 2007 – Named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World"
  • 2008 – Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program for Curious George
  • 2009 – Producers Guild of America Milestone Award, together with Ron Howard
  • 2009 – New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Big Apple Award, together with Ron Howard
  • 2010 – Simon Wiesenthal Center Humanitarian Award, together with Ron Howard
  • 2010 – Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program for Curious George
  • 2011 – MPSE 2011 Filmmaker Award
  • 2017 – Grammy Award for Best Music Film for The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
  • 2019 – Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award

Did The Simpsons predict the Glasgow Willy Wonka scandal? According to a hilarious meme, the cartoon foresaw the tragic event with paltry treats and that Oompa Loompa was the cause

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 29, 2024
As re-surfaced scenes from the cartoon appear eerily close to those of the current global scandal, The Simpsons may have predicted future events yet more. As children were welcomed with a singular jelly bean, half a cup of lemonade, a terrifying made up villain, and absolutely no chocolate, parents slammed the city's 'Willy's Chocolate Experience' function turned into a nightmare. People took to social media to learn as much as they could about the failed Wonka warehouse, which resulted in the emergence of a slew of memes. One of them was a series of snaps from The Simpsons, which looked spookily like the scenes on display in Glasgow.

Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell pose on the cover of Vogue to plug docuseries The Supermodels

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 11, 2023
The original supermodels are back on Vogue's front page. Cindy Crawford, 57, Linda Evangelista, 53, Naomi Campbell, 54, and Christy Turlington, 54, all posed side by side for the Nineties. As they posed for shutterbug Rafael Pavarotti, the cover girls all dressed in dark shades. The ladies are raving over Apple's latest Apple TV+ docuseries The Supermodels, which will premiere on September 20. The four-part exhibit focuses on the 1990s' best models. The series is hosted by Academy Award winner Roger Ross Williams and Larissa Bills, while Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Documentaries produced it.

Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista talk about the Supermodels' trailer

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 11, 2023
The first teaser for Apple's latest docuseries The Supermodels were announced on Tuesday. The four-part exhibit explores the 1990s' best models. They were Cindy Crawford, 57, Linda Evangelista, 58, Naomi Campbell, 53, and Christy Turlington, 54. Barbara Kopple, a two-time Academy Award winner, is the series's executive producer, while Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Documentaries produced it. On September 20, the series will premiere.
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