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Scott Rudin
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Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958) is an American film and theatrical producer. He started working as an assistant to theater producer Kermit Bloomgarden at the age of sixteen. Later, he worked for producers Robert Whitehead and Emanuel Azenberg. Rudin ended up starting his own company after he took a job as a casting agent In lieu of attending college. In 1980, Rudin moved to Los Angeles, taking up employment at Edgar J. Scherick Associates, where he served as producer on a variety of films including I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1981), the NBC miniseries Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982) and the Oscar-winning documentary He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983). Rudin later formed his own business, Scott Rudin Productions. His first film under that banner was Gillian Armstrong's Mrs. Soffel (1984). But, not long after, Rudin joined 20th Century-Fox as an executive producer. At Fox, he met Jonathan Dolgen, a higher-level executive, with whom he would be working once again at Paramount Pictures years later. Rudin swiftly rose through the ranks at Fox and became president of production by 1986 at the age of 29. His stint at the top of Fox was short lived though, and he soon left and entered into a producing deal with Paramount. In early 2021, The Hollywood Reporter published a story covering a long term pattern of abusive behavior from Rudin, based on statements from former employees. In the article, he was accused of physical abuse, including smashing a computer monitor on the hand of an assistant and throwing objects at employees. Following this, Rudin announced he would be stepping away from a number of film, television, and Broadway projects he was involved in. His business relationship with A24 was also ended during this time. Rudin lives in New York City with his husband John Barlow, a Broadway theatre publicist and former owner of Barlow/Hartman Public Relations.
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The Truman Show
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There Will Be Blood
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Lady Bird
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The Firm
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Captain Phillips
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No Country for Old Men
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Sleepy Hollow
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Storming the Deck
From the Bounty to the Caine, mutiny films have always been about more than shipboard insurrection. This chain charts how cinematic rebellions at sea reflect th...
7 films
Breaking the Frame: A Journey Through the Fourth Wall
It began with a gun, a bullet, and an audience leaping out of their seats. When Justus D. Barnes leveled his revolver at the camera in The Great Train Robbery (...
8 films
The Cracks in the Picket Fence: Suburban Critique Across Generations
From the manicured lawns of 1999 to the glowing screens of today, this chain traces how cinema has dissected the suburban dream, revealing the isolation, confor...
8 films
Double Trouble
From the Academy's rare double nods to the performances that earned them, this chain celebrates actors who competed against themselves in a single awards season...
8 films
The Price of Devotion
From the riverbank to the desert, a journey through American cinema's darkest portraits of faith, charisma, and the corruption that follows.
8 films
Girlhood Reclaimed
From institutionalised rebellion to the raucous freedom of the last day of school, a chain of films that lets young women be messy, angry, and gloriously themse...
8 films
When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability
What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...
8 films
The Camera as Weapon
From Chris Hansen's sting operations to the blood sport of nightly news, this chain traces the moral rot at the heart of spectacle.
8 films
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2019
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Isle of Dogs
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Annihilation
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Eighth Grade
2018
Lady Bird
2017
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2017
Fences
2016
Aloha
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While We're Young
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Ex Machina
2015
Inherent Vice
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Top Five
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Inside Llewyn Davis
2013
Captain Phillips
2013
Frances Ha
2013
Moonrise Kingdom
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2012
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
Page Eight
2011
True Grit
2010
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2010
The Social Network
2010
Greenberg
2010
It's Complicated
2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
Julie & Julia
2009
Revolutionary Road
2008
Doubt
2008
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
There Will Be Blood
2007
No Country for Old Men
2007
The Darjeeling Limited
2007
The Queen
2006
Failure to Launch
2006
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
The Village
2004
The School of Rock
2003
Marci X
2003
Changing Lanes
2002
Orange County
2002
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
Zoolander
2001
Shaft
2000
Rules of Engagement
2000
Wonder Boys
2000
Sleepy Hollow
1999
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
1999
The Truman Show
1998
In & Out
1997
Ransom
1996
The First Wives Club
1996
Sabrina
1995
Clueless
1995
I.Q.
1994
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993
Addams Family Values
1993
The Firm
1993
Sister Act
1992
The Addams Family
1991
Little Man Tate
1991
Regarding Henry
1991
Pacific Heights
1990
Flatliners
1990