Edward Saxon
Edward Saxon | |
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Born | Edward Bradley Saxon (1956-11-17) November 17, 1956 (age 67) St. Louis, Missouri |
Occupation | Film producer |
Edward Bradley Saxon (born November 17, 1956) is an American film producer and endowed Chair of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.[1] Saxon is arguably best known for producing the film The Silence of the Lambs, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and is, to date, the third and last film to sweep the five main categories of Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. (The others are It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.)[2]
Early life
Saxon was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Kirkwood High School from 1972 to 1976.
He studied at McGill University from 1976 to 1980. While at McGill, he founded the Tuesday Night Cafe Theatre with Veronica Brady and Peter Grossman, and the company is still running today. Saxon acted in many plays at the Players' Theatre, McGill's famous Red and White Review. He also founded a radio comedy troupe called The Circle Jerks.
He then studied at the Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Career
Saxon is arguably best known for producing the film The Silence of the Lambs. Formerly Jonathan Demme's producing partner, his films include Beloved, Ulee's Gold, That Thing You Do!, The Truth About Charlie, Married to the Mob, Miami Blues and Philadelphia.
After parting ways with Demme, Saxon produced Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze's Adaptation.. He produced Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation in 2006. More recent projects include Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes, and Our Family Wedding, starring Forest Whitaker and America Ferrera.
Originally an actor, Saxon was one of VH1's first VJ's in New York City. He has made several cameos in the films he has produced, most notably as a head in a jar in Silence of the Lambs.
In 2021, Saxon was named Chair of Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. In his appointment, Saxon noted that the Stark program “changed my life.” He added: “Making great stories requires a complex skillset in this transformative time. Building on the legacy of Ray Stark, Art Murphy, and Larry Turman, I'm looking forward to working with our world-class teaching professionals to give students the knowledge and attitudes they need to succeed in marrying commerce and art.”[1]
Filmography
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
Film
Year | Film | Credit |
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1986 | Something Wild | Executive producer |
1988 | Married to the Mob | |
1990 | Miami Blues | Executive producer |
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | |
1993 | Philadelphia | |
1995 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Executive producer |
1996 | That Thing You Do! | |
1997 | Ulee's Gold | Executive producer |
1998 | Beloved | |
1999 | The Opportunists | Executive producer |
2002 | The Truth About Charlie | |
Adaptation | ||
2006 | Fast Food Nation | Executive producer |
2009 | Away We Go | |
2010 | Our Family Wedding | |
2014 | Elsa & Fred |
- As an actor
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1986 | Something Wild | Kevin Stroup | |
1990 | Miami Blues | Krishna Ravindra at Miami Airport | |
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Benjamin Raspail (Head in a Jar) | Uncredited |
1994 | The Ref | Reporter | |
1998 | Beloved | Man with Rubbery Face | Uncredited |
- Thanks
Year | Film | Role |
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1993 | Household Saints | Thanks |
1996 | Some Mother's Son | Special thanks |
2005 | Me and You and Everyone We Know | |
2009 | Where the Wild Things Are | |
2021 | Music | The producers wish to thank |
Television
Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
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1988 | Haiti Dreams of Democracy | Executive producer | Documentary |
1991 | Women & Men 2 | Co-producer | Television film |
1997 | Subway Stories | Executive producer | Television film |
2011 | Enlightened | Co-executive producer | |
2016−19 | Ray Donovan | Co-executive producer |
- As an actor
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1991 | Women & Men 2 | Ad Man | Television film |
References
- ^ a b Galuppo, Mia (2021-07-15). "USC Film School Names Ed Saxon Chair of Peter Stark Producing Program". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
- ^ Phipps, Keith (2022-03-23). "The Night 'The Silence of the Lambs' Devoured the Oscars". The Ringer. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
External links
- Edward Saxon Productions
- Edward Saxon at IMDb
- Interview with Edward Saxon Archived 2007-07-12 at the Wayback Machine, Adaptation
- Edward Saxon and others discuss why so many novels never make it to the big screen, The Independent
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- Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
- Buddy Adler (1953)
- Sam Spiegel (1954)
- Harold Hecht (1955)
- Michael Todd (1956)
- Sam Spiegel (1957)
- Arthur Freed (1958)
- Sam Zimbalist (1959)
- Billy Wilder (1960)
- Robert Wise (1961)
- Sam Spiegel (1962)
- Tony Richardson (1963)
- Jack L. Warner (1964)
- Robert Wise (1965)
- Fred Zinnemann (1966)
- Walter Mirisch (1967)
- John Woolf (1968)
- Jerome Hellman (1969)
- Frank McCarthy (1970)
- Philip D'Antoni (1971)
- Albert S. Ruddy (1972)
- Tony Bill, Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips (1973)
- Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos (1974)
- Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz (1975)
- Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976)
- Charles H. Joffe (1977)
- Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall and Barry Spikings (1978)
- Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)
- Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
- David Puttnam (1981)
- Richard Attenborough (1982)
- James L. Brooks (1983)
- Saul Zaentz (1984)
- Sydney Pollack (1985)
- Arnold Kopelson (1986)
- Jeremy Thomas (1987)
- Mark Johnson (1988)
- Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck (1989)
- Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
- Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon and Kenneth Utt (1991)
- Clint Eastwood (1992)
- Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen and Steven Spielberg (1993)
- Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey and Steve Tisch (1994)
- Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
- Saul Zaentz (1996)
- James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
- Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein and Edward Zwick (1998)
- Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)
- David Franzoni, Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick (2000)
- Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (2001)
- Martin Richards (2002)
- Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Fran Walsh (2003)
- Clint Eastwood, Tom Rosenberg and Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
- Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman (2005)
- Graham King (2006)
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Scott Rudin (2007)
- Christian Colson (2008)
- Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro (2009)
- Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin (2010)
- Thomas Langmann (2011)
- Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov (2012)
- Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Brad Pitt (2013)
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
- Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar (2015)
- Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Adele Romanski (2016)
- J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017)
- Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga and Charles B. Wessler (2018)
- Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019)
- Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears and Chloé Zhao (2020)
- Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, Patrick Wachsberger (2021)
- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang (2022)
- Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan (2023)