Английская Википедия:Bruce Berman

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Bruce Berman (born April 25, 1952) is an American film industry executive and executive producer. He is the chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures, a position he has held from 1997 to 2021. His credits as an executive producer include American Sniper, The Lego Movie, The Great Gatsby, the Ocean's trilogy, Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Happy Feet and The Matrix franchise.

Berman is noted for his collection of contemporary American photographs. In 2004, he was listed among the world's top 25 photography collectors by ARTnews.

Early life and education

Berman was born to a Jewish family in New York in 1952. As a teenager, he developed a passion for photography and contemplated a career as a photographer. He continued to pursue photography throughout high school and into college, where, as a student at Bennington College, he would take frequent road trips to shoot photos of 20th century Americana.

Berman's focus shifted to film after he was accepted at the California Institute of the Arts film school. "I didn't think I could make a living at photography," Berman said in a 2007 interview with the Los Angeles Times. "And when I got into film school, I didn't think I could do both."

In addition to Bennington and CalArts, Berman attended UCLA, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in United States history. He also attended Georgetown University Law School, earning a juris doctor in 1978.

Career

Berman began working with Jack Valenti at the MPAA while a student at Georgetown. After he received his degree, he was hired as an assistant to Peter Guber at Casablanca Filmworks. In 1979, he moved to Universal Pictures, where he worked for Sean Daniel and Joel Silver. Less than three years later, he was named vice president of production.

In 1984, Berman was recruited by Warner Bros. Pictures as a vice president of production, and in 1987 was promoted to senior vice president of production. He was named president of theatrical production in 1989 and president of worldwide theatrical production in 1991. During his tenure at Warner Bros. he produced and distributed films including Goodfellas, Batman Forever, JFK, The Fugitive, The Bodyguard, and Driving Miss Daisy.

In May 1996, Berman started Plan B Entertainment, an independent motion picture company affiliated with Warner Bros. In 1997, Warner Bros entered into a joint venture with Village Roadshow Pictures, and Berman was appointed chairman and CEO. Considered "one of the industry’s leading financiers and producers of studio released motion pictures," the Village Roadshow and Warner Bros. partnership was extended in 2012 to 2017. The company established a second joint partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014.

On September 27, 2021, Berman stepped down as chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures.

In May 2023, Bruce came out of retirement to join the new Pan-Asian studio Through The Lens Entertainment as the President and Co-Chairman.

Photography collection

In 1991, Berman was given an Edward S. Curtis photograph of a thatched American Indian shelter as a gift. It inspired him to begin a photography collection, which grew to include more than 2600 works by photographers including William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Richard Misrach, Dorothea Lange, and Walker Evans. He and his ex-wife Nancy Goliger donated nearly 500 of the photographs to the J. Paul Getty Museum, which in 2007 showcased them in the exhibition Where We Live: Photographs of America From the Berman Collection.

Personal life

Berman has two children; a daughter, with his wife, Lea Russo (an art collection manager), and a son from his previous marriage to Goliger.

Filmography (as executive producer)

Year	Title	Notes
1998	Practical Magic
1999	Analyze This
	The Matrix	Four Academy Awards Best Film Editing (Zach Staenberg) Best Sound (John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell) Best Visual Effects (John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, Jon Thum) Best Sound Effects Editing (Dane A. Davis)
	Deep Blue Sea
	Three Kings
	Three to Tango
2000	Gossip
	Red Planet	Producer
	Miss Congeniality
2001	Valentine
	Saving Silverman
	See Spot Run
	Exit Wounds
	Swordfish
	Cats & Dogs
	Training Day
	Hearts in Atlantis
	Don't Say a Word
	Ocean's Eleven
2002	Queen of the Damned
	Showtime
	Eight Legged Freaks	Producer
	The Adventures of Pluto Nash
	Ghost Ship
	Analyze That
	Two Weeks Notice
2003	Dreamcatcher
	The Matrix Reloaded
	Mystic River	Two Academy Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role (Sean Penn) Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Tim Robbins)
	The Matrix Revolutions
2004	Torque
	Taking Lives
	Catwoman
	Ocean's Twelve
2005	Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
	House of Wax
	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Academy Award nomination Best Costume Design (Gabriella Pescucci)
	The Dukes of Hazzard
	Rumor Has It...
2006	Firewall
	The Lake House
	Happy Feet	Academy Award Best Animated Feature
	Unaccompanied Minors
2007	Music and Lyrics
	The Reaping
	Lucky You
	Ocean's Thirteen
	License to Wed
	No Reservations
	The Invasion
	The Brave One
	I Am Legend
2008	Street Kings
	Speed Racer
	Get Smart
	Nights in Rodanthe
	Yes Man
	Gran Torino
2009	Where the Wild Things Are
	Sherlock Holmes	Two Academy Award nominations Best Original Score (Hans Zimmer) Best Art Direction (Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer)
2010	Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
	Life as We Know It
2011	Happy Feet Two
	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2012	The Lucky One
	Dark Shadows
2013	Gangster Squad
	The Great Gatsby	Two Academy Awards Best Production Design (Catherine Martin and Beverley Dunn) Best Costume Design (Catherine Martin)
2014	The Lego Movie	Academy Award nomination Best Original Song (Shawn Patterson)
	Winter's Tale
	Edge of Tomorrow
	The Judge
	Into the Storm
	American Sniper	Academy Award Best Sound Editing (Alan Robert Murray and Bob Asman) Six Academy Award Nominations Best Picture Best Actor (Bradley Cooper) Best Adapted Screenplay (Jason Hall) Best Film Editing (Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach) Best Sound Mixing (John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin)
2015	Jupiter Ascending
	Mad Max: Fury Road	Six Academy Awards Best Film Editing (Margaret Sixel) Best Production Design (Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson) Best Costume Design (Jenny Beavan) Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin Best Sound Mixing (Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff, Ben Osmo) Best Sound Editing (Mark Mangini and David White) Ten Academy Award Nominations Best Picture Best Director (George Miller) Best Cinematography (John Seale) Best Visual Effects (Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver, and Andy Williams)
	San Andreas
	Goosebumps
	Concussion
	In the Heart of the Sea
2016	Grimsby
	The Legend of Tarzan
	Sully
	The Magnificent Seven
	Collateral Beauty
	Passengers
2017	Fist Fight
	Going in Style
	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
	The House
2018	The 15:17 to Paris
	Ready Player One
	Ocean's 8
2019	Joker	Two Academy Awards Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) Best Original Score (Hildur Guðnadóttir) Eleven Academy Award Nominations Best Picture Best Director (Todd Phillips) Best Adapted Screenplay (Todd Phillips and Scott Silver) Best Film Editing (Jeff Groth) Best Cinematography (Lawrence Sher) Best Costume Design (Mark Bridges) Best Makeup And Hairstyling (Nicki Ledermann, Kay Georgiou) Best Sound Mixing (Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic and Tod Maitland) Best Sound Editing (Alan Robert Murray)
2021	The Matrix Resurrections

External links

• Village Roadshow Pictures Official Website
• Шаблон:IMDb name