Top Ten Greatest Movie Producers of All Time

1. Steven Spielberg

   

   Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and is regarded as one of the most popular and influential directors and producers in film history. His notable films include Jaws... read more

   As famous as the movies he directed, Steven Spielberg inspired a generation of filmmakers, revolutionized an entire style, and, in the process, became a legend around the world.

   Want to learn how to make a proper blockbuster? Well, this guy practically invented the term. He has been nominated for eight Oscars, winning once.

2. Kevin Feige

   

   Kevin Feige is an American film and television producer. He has served as the president of Marvel Studios since 2007. He is credited with overseeing the Marvel Cinematic Universe and turning it into one of the most successful film franchises in history.

   He has changed Hollywood forever. The MCU is a force in Hollywood, and everyone is trying to duplicate his work. That's a sign of greatness.

3. Jerry Bruckheimer

   

4. Kathleen Kennedy

   

   She's been producing movies alongside Steven Spielberg and George Lucas for years and was recently appointed, by Lucas himself, as the new head honcho at Lucasfilm. She has been nominated for an impressive eight Oscars.

5. George Lucas

   

   George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist. He created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founded Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light and Magic, and THX. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012... read more

6. Harvey Weinstein

   

   Harvey Weinstein (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. He and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded Miramax, which produced acclaimed independent films such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures... read more

   Wait... so because we learned AFTER enjoying his movies that he was a bad human being, now he shouldn't be rated so highly? What a stupid argument. If he was great at his job, he was great at his job. You can be a horrible person and be great... they're not mutually exclusive.

   Over thirty Oscar winners have thanked Harvey Weinstein during their acceptance speeches. That's a lot when you consider that only seven Oscar winners have ever thanked God. He has been nominated twice for an Oscar and has won once.

7. Frank Marshall

   

   The husband of Kathleen Kennedy and, along with Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, a co-founder of Amblin Entertainment, he is known as the producer of a huge number of the highest-grossing and most well-received movies in American film history. He has been nominated for five Oscars.

8. Tim Burton

   

   Timothy Walter Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is known for his dark, gothic, eccentric, and quirky fantasy films such as Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), the animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), and the biographical film... read more

   Tim Burton is a god. He produced James and the Giant Peach and Nightmare Before Christmas.

9. Christopher Nolan

   

   Christopher Edward Nolan, CBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British-American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films have grossed more than US$5 billion worldwide and have garnered 11 Academy Awards from 36 nominations.... read more

   By far the best director, producer, and screenwriter I've ever seen.

10. Jon Peters

    
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13. Joe Roth

14. Sam Spiegel

    He became the first to win an Oscar for Best Picture three times and has produced numerous Hollywood classics, including 'The African Queen' (1951), 'On the Waterfront' (1954), 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957), and 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962). He was nominated for four Oscars and won all but one of them.

15. Clint Eastwood

    

    Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, film director, producer, musician, and political figure. He gained fame through Western films such as A Fistful of Dollars and the Dirty Harry series. Eastwood has directed acclaimed films including Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and American Sniper... read more

    While he is most famously known for his acting and directing, he was also a frequent film producer and produced many of the films he directed (the last movie he directed but didn't produce was in 1993). He has been nominated for four Oscars and has won twice.

16. Scott Rudin

    

    He was named the President of Production at 20th Century Fox when he was just 27 years of age. He is also one of the few people who have won an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award, and the first producer to do so.

17. Samuel Goldwyn

    

    After co-founding Paramount Pictures and creating the now-iconic "Leo the Lion" logo for his own Goldwyn Pictures (it was later made the logo of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - which he actually wasn't a part of), Samuel Goldwyn produced the Best Picture Oscar-winning drama 'The Best Years of Our Lives' in 1946. He would go on to win two additional non-competitive Academy Awards.

18. Mel Brooks

    

    Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky. June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, playwright, and songwriter whose career has spanned over seven decades. He's one of just 21 entertainers to achieve an EGOT, winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, and he's received numerous other... read more

19. Brian Grazer

    Known for producing most of the films Ron Howard has directed, Brian Grazer's list of films have been nominated for a total of forty-three Oscars. He, himself, has won once for 'A Beautiful Mind' in 2002.

20. Walt Disney

    

    Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 to December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, and entrepreneur. He was a pioneer of the American animation industry and introduced several innovations in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, he holds the record for the most Academy Awards... read more

21. Joel Silver

22. John Lasseter

    

    John Alan Lasseter is an American animator, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He served as the chief creative officer at Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and DisneyToon Studios until his departure in 2018. Lasseter directed and produced several groundbreaking animated... read more

23. Jerry Weintraub

24. Robert Evans

    Producer of classics like The Godfather, Chinatown, Love Story. He sent Paramount Pictures from being in 9th place to being the 1st.

25. Fran Walsh

26. Peter Jackson

    

    Sir Peter Robert Jackson is a New Zealand filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy, both adapted from the novels of the same name by J.R.R. Tolkien. He is also known for cult films like Bad Taste, Meet the... read more

    This guy had limited production experience. How does he walk into a company and talk them out of nearly $100,000,000 to make one of three movies?! This whole production was so extensive, elaborate, and complicated. Amazing job managing all of that. MASSIVE KUDOS.

    He's a fantastic producer, but apparently a better salesman.

27. Alfred Hitchcock

    

    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English filmmaker, often referred to as "The Master of Suspense." He directed more than 50 feature films during a career spanning six decades. Hitchcock is best known for classics such as Psycho, Rear Window, and Vertigo.