Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer has been making movies and television programs for more than 25 years. As both a writer and producer, he has been personally nominated for four Academy Awards, and in 2002 won the Best Picture Oscar for _A Beautiful Mind , and in 1986 the two founded Imagine Entertainment, which they continue to run together as chairmen.
Graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television.
Ranked #17 in Premieres 2003 annual Hollywood Power List. He had ranked #23 in 2002.
Optioned "Ordeal", the autobiography of former porn star Linda Lovelace , hoping to make a film out of it. He later realized that the story is too narrow and dropped the project. He did go on to make the documentary Inside Deep Throat , however.
Was first introduced to Deep Throat through his grandmother in 1972. At 60, she was curious about the movie with all the talk about it and decided to go see it with her husband.
Was a surfer before he became a producer.
Ranked #19 on Premieres 2006 "Power 50" list. Had ranked #20 in 2005.
2007 - Ranked #11 on EWs The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.
In 2007, Forbes Magazine reported his 2006 earnings to be approximately $35 million.
Nephew of producer/director Bernard L. Kowalski.
Two sons with ex-wife, Gigi Levangie , Thomas Costa Grazer (born November 15, 1999) and Patrick Grazer.
Has a son, Riley Grazer and a daughter, Sage Grazer (born 1988) with ex-wife, Corki Grazer.
Took Imagine Entertainment public, then decided he and partner Ron Howard were better off as full-time filmmakers, not full-time Wall Street executives.
When he was five years Grazers idol was comic book hero Richie Rich.
A noted germaphobe, Grazer often opens doors with his left hand - or uses a paper towel - and washes as soon as possible after greeting a stranger.
Grazers favorite car (as of a 1993 interview) was his antique red 1958 Corvette,.
Brother of actor Gavin Grazer. Uncle of actor Jack Dylan Grazer.
His mother was of Russian Jewish/Latvian Jewish descent, and his father had German and Irish ancestry.
Pornography is very important and is about the physicalization of a,philosophy, but I think that the birth of how trends happen or how,barriers get broken down is more interesting.
I only make movies that are interesting to me.
I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person,or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a,decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better,chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to,disrupt my comfort zone.
[on dealing with interviewees] Mostly they suggest that they come to me.
The truth is usually best understood from self-awareness, and my,self-awareness is limited when it comes to women.
Good characters are often in pain.
Curiosity—asking questions—isn’t just a way of understanding the world. It’s a way of changing it.
Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity.
I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.
