Brian Thomas Grazer was born on July 12,1951 and is an American film and television producer and writer.
19 Facts About Brian Grazer
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Brian Grazer founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986 with Ron Howard.
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In 2002, Brian Grazer won an Oscar for Best Picture for A Beautiful Mind.
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Brian Grazer was raised in Sherman Oaks and Northridge, in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley.
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Brian Grazer's parents divorced when he was in high school.
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Brian Grazer got through school by reading other students' papers and arguing his grades with his teachers.
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Brian Grazer won a scholarship to the University of Southern California as a psychology major.
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Brian Grazer graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television in 1974.
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Brian Grazer then attended USC Law School for one year, but quit in 1975 to pursue a life in Hollywood.
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Brian Grazer began his career as a producer developing television projects.
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Brian Grazer produced his first feature-film, Night Shift, in 1982, directed by Howard.
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Brian Grazer went on to become an independent producer, teaming up with Tri-Star Pictures to set up plans for a film to star Richard Pryor, and had a continuing relationship with The Walt Disney Studios, and has plans to develop projects for Paramount Pictures.
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Brian Grazer produced Apollo 13, for which he won the Producers Guild of America's Daryl F Zanuck Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award, as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Picture of 1995.
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In 2001, Brian Grazer won an Academy Award for Best Picture for A Beautiful Mind, which took home Oscars for Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Brian Grazer's recently released films include J Edgar, the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic of J Edgar Hoover, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tower Heist, starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, and Restless, directed by Gus Van Sant.
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Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment's television series include Sports Night, Felicity, Arrested Development, 24 with Kiefer Sutherland, Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, Lie to Me, Empire, Genius: Einstein, Genius: Picasso and Wu-Tang: An American Saga.
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Brian Grazer produced Get on Up, a biopic of the legendary "Godfather of Soul" James Brown, and In the Heart of the Sea, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, about the American whaleship the Essex.
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In 2019, Brian Grazer released his second book Face To Face: The Art of Human Connection.
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Brian Grazer has a home in Hawaii on Sunset Beach, on the Banzai Pipeline on O'ahu's North Shore.