Kevin Feige
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Kevin Feige ( FY-ghee; born June 2, 1973) is an American film producer who has been the president of Marvel Studios since 2007.
The films he has produced have a combined worldwide box office gross of over $26.8 billion.
Feige is a member of the Producers Guild of America.
In 2019, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Black Panther, the first superhero film ever to receive a Best Picture nomination, as well as the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to win an Academy Award, marking it the first time Feige was nominated for an Academy Award, and on October 2019 he became chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment.
On July 21, 2019, Avengers: Endgame, which he produced, became the highest-grossing film of all time.
Early life
Feige was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Westfield, New Jersey, the son of Maralyn and Tim Feige. He moved to New Jersey at the age of eight and lived there until the age of eighteen. when he graduated from Westfield High School. His maternal grandfather, Robert E. Short, was a television producer in the 1950s, working on soap operas including The Guiding Light and As the World Turns.
After high school, Feige applied to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, the alma mater of his favorite directors: George Lucas, Ron Howard and Robert Zemeckis. His first five applications were rejected, but he was accepted on the sixth. He graduated in 1995 with a degree in film.
Personal life
Feige married Caitlin, a cardiothoracic nurse, around 2007. They have two children: a daughter born in 2009, and a son born in 2012.
Career
He began working as a sous producer on Volcano and You've Got Mail. Lauren Shuler Donner was aided by him in early life.
He was hired by Marvel as a producer in 2000. Donner made Feige an associate producer on the first X-Men film due to his familiarity with the Marvel Universe. Avi Arad, who was hired as his second-in-command at Marvel Studios the same year, impressed him. Feige discovered in the mid-2000s that although Spider-Man and the X-Men had been licensed to Sony and 20th Century Fox, Marvel still owned the rights to the Avengers' core members and imagined a shared universe for the first time, as artist Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had imagined with their comic books in the early 1960s.
Feige was appointed president of Marvel Studios in March 2007.
Feige was named Youngest Showman of the Year at the ICG Publicist Guild Awards on February 22, 2013.
Feige's work on Black Panther earned him nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Producers Guild of America Award.
In 2019, Feige was awarded the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatric Motion Pictures by the Producers Guild of America. Feige is reportedly directing a Star Wars film for Lucasfilm, according to a tweeter on September 26, 2019.
Feige, in addition to being President of Marvel Studios, was named chief creative officer for Marvel Comics, Marvel Television, and Marvel Animation in October 2019.