27 Facts About Lawrence Bender

Lawrence Bender was born on October 17,1957 and is an American film producer.

Lawrence Bender has produced three documentary films, most notably An Inconvenient Truth which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Lawrence Bender has received three Best Picture nominations for producing Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting and Inglourious Basterds.

Lawrence Bender was born to a Jewish family in The Bronx, New York, and grew up in New Jersey, where his father was a college history professor and his mother was a kindergarten teacher.

Lawrence Bender described his hometown of Cherry Hill at the time as "all-white and anti-Semitic".

Lawrence Bender's grandfather had been a civil engineer and he heard there were good jobs available in the field.

Lawrence Bender is a graduate of The University of Maine, Class of 1979, majoring in Civil Engineering.

Lawrence Bender worked as a dancer for some time before a series of injuries ended his dance career.

Lawrence Bender had deals with Miramax and Fox 2000 Pictures.

Since May 2005, Lawrence Bender has been a contributing blogger at HuffPost.

In 2009, Lawrence Bender produced the Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Lawrence Bender produced the 2012 film Safe, which starred Jason Statham.

In 2017, it was announced that Lawrence Bender would serve as a producer for the film The Widow.

Lawrence Bender makes a cameo appearance in many of the films he produces: he was a police officer chasing Mr Pink in Reservoir Dogs, a restaurant patron billed as a "Long Hair Yuppie-Scum" in Fresh, Pulp Fiction and Four Rooms, a hotel clerk in Kill Bill: Volume 2, and as a bartender in Safe.

Lawrence Bender produced the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which raised unprecedented awareness about climate change, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

In 2008, Lawrence Bender was a founding member of the World Security Institute campaign, Global Zero.

Lawrence Bender was an executive producer for the 2017 sequel to An Inconvenient Truth, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.

Lawrence Bender produced the CBS Drama Dr Vegas and the Syfy channel mini-series Earthsea.

In 2008, it was reported that Lawrence Bender was working with Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor to create a television series based on the 2007 album Year Zero.

Lawrence Bender is a passionate social and political activist and supports many causes.

Lawrence Bender is a member of Council on Foreign Relations the Pacific Council.

Lawrence Bender is on the Advisory Board for the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and a member of the Global Zero campaign.

In 2004, Lawrence Bender was a top fundraiser for John Kerry's presidential campaign.

Lawrence Bender was an early supporter of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

Lawrence Bender received a producer of the year award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, becoming the third person ever to win the award and the first American to do so.

In 2005, Lawrence Bender was presented with the Torch of Liberty award from the ACLU.

Lawrence Bender was named a Wildlife Hero by the National Wildlife Federation in 2011.