Brian Grazer

Brian Grazer is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning producer. His productions have been nominated for 43 Oscars® and 198 Emmys and he won the Best Picture Oscar for A Beautiful Mind. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, and Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection released this past fall. Grazer has been recognized by numerous organizations, and was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” by Time Magazine. In addition to A Beautiful Mind, Grazer also produced the films Apollo 13, American Gangster, 8 Mile, Liar Liar, and Parenthood and the television series Empire, 24, Arrested Development, and Friday Night Lights just to name a few. Currently, Grazer is producing several features including the film adaptation of the NY Times bestseller Hillbilly Elegy and tick, tick…BOOM! directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. He also produced the critically-acclaimed documentary Rebuilding Paradise released in July 2020. In television, Grazer is currently executive producing Wu-Tang: An American Saga for Hulu, an Empire spin off and Filthy Rich for Fox, Genius: Aretha for NatGeo, Outliers for HBO Max, and Langdon for NBC. Grazer also co-founded Imagine Impact to discover, cultivate and empower creative storytellers around the world through a modern development system that helps them create their best work from inception to market. In under a year, Impact built a community of 23,000 writers across 80+ countries, developed 61 projects, and set up and/or sold 27 projects – creating a diverse portfolio of projects across genres, formats, and geographies that Impact has a stake in. Impact also launched a proprietary mobile/web platform to directly connect the people who get creative projects made – writers, producers, showrunners and buyers. Grazer and his longtime friend and business partner Ron Howard founded Imagine Entertainment in the early 80’s, embarking on what is now one of the longest running partnerships in Hollywood. They continue to run the company together as chairmen.