Performer

Todd Black

Producer in the Nutevio catalogue.

Born: 9 February 1960
Age: 66
Active: 1992–present
Known for: Producer

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Producer · 31
Executive Producer · 8

The essay

Reading Todd Black

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

Why this filmmaker matters

Todd Black has 0 productions in the Nutevio catalogue. Todd Black (born February 9, 1960) is an American film producer best known for producing The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009), The Equalizer (2014), Southpaw (2015), The Magnificent Seven (2016), and Fences (2016) for which he received an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination with Scott Rudin and Denzel Washington. Description above from the Wikipedia article Todd Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Signature style

The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, 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

Black 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.