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Born in New York City. An independent producer at Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin's company is a film and theater production house. Rudin entered American film as a casting director in the late 1970s. He got into producing with the made-for-TV movie "Revenge of the Stepford Wives" (1980). Other notable producing/executive producing credits include I'M DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN and "Little Gloria... Happy at Last" (TV) (both 1982), HE MAKES ME FEEL LIKE DANCIN' (1983), RECKLESS and MRS. SOFFEL (both 1984), FLATLINERS (1990), REGARDING HENRY, LITTLE MAN TATE and THE ADDAMS FAMILY (all 1991), WHITE SANDS, SISTER ACT and JENNIFER EIGHT (all 1992), LIFE WITH MIKEY, THE FIRM, SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER, ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES and SISTER ACT 2: BACK IN THE HABIT (all 1993), NOBODY'S FOOL and I.Q. (both 1994), CLUELESS and SABRINA (both 1995), THE FIRST WIVES CLUB, MOTHER, RANSOM and MARVIN'S ROOM (all 1996), IN & OUT (1997), TWILIGHT, THE TRUMAN SHOW and A CIVIL ACTION (all 1998), SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, SLEEPY HOLLOW and ANGELA'S ASHES (all 1999), WONDERBOYS, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT and SHAFT (all 2000), ZOOLANDER, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS and IRIS (all 2001), ORANGE COUNTY, THE HOURS and CHANGING LANES (both 2002), THE SCHOOL OF ROCK and MARCI X (both 2003), THE STEPFORD WIVES, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE VILLAGE, I HEART HUCKABEES, TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE, THE LIVE ACQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU, CLOSER and LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS (all 2004), WILD TIGERS I HAVE KNOWN, FAILURE TO LAUNCH, THE QUEEN, VENUS and NOTES ON A SCANDAL (all 2006), NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, MARGOT AT THE WEDDING, THE DARJEELING LIMITED, NOTHING IS PRIVATE and THERE WILL BE BLOOD (all 2007), THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, STOP-LOSS, MARGARET, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, DOUBT and THE READER (all 2008), JULIE & JULIA, THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, THE SMOKER and BLOOD MERIDIAN (all scheduled for release in 2009), and SNOW AND THE SEVEN, GOAT and JACK AND DIANE (all announced for 2010).
Originally a production assistant for the original Broadway run of Equus (1974), Rudin's Broadway producing credits include Passion (1994), Indiscretions and Hamlet (starring Ralph Fiennes) (both 1995), The Chairs, The Judas Kiss, On the Town (revival) and The Blue Room (all 1998), Closer (1999), Copenhagen and The Wild Party (both 2000), Caroline, or Change (2004), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (revival), Doubt and Mark Twain Tonight (all 2005), Well, The History Boys, Faith Healer, Shining City and The Vertical Hour (all 2006), The Year of Magical Thinking and Deuce (both 2007), and the 2008 revival of Gypsy, starring Patti LuPone. Rudin has received five Tony® Awards as producer of Best Play or Best Musical winners.
2 nominations, 1 Award |
Nominated for Best Picture of the Year 
Best Picture of the Year