Performer

Brian Grazer

Producer in the Nutevio catalogue.

Born: 12 July 1951
Age: 75
Active: 1982–present
Known for: Producer

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Producer · 74
Executive Producer · 52
Creator · 3

The essay

Reading Brian Grazer

Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.

Why this filmmaker matters

Brian Grazer has 0 productions in the Nutevio catalogue. Brian Thomas Grazer (born July 12, 1951) is an American film and television producer. He founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986 with Ron Howard. The films they produced have grossed over $15 billion. Grazer was personally nominated for four Academy Awards for Splash (1984), Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Frost/Nixon (2008). His films and TV series have been nominated for 47 Academy Awards and 217 Emmy Awards. In 2002, Grazer won an Oscar for Best Picture for A Beautiful Mind (shared with Ron Howard). In 2007, he was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People in the World". Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Grazer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Signature style

The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.

Legacy

Grazer set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.