1. Robert Lantos was born on 3 April 1949 and is a Hungarian-Canadian film producer.
13 Facts About Robert Lantos
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Robert Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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Robert Lantos studied literature at McGill University in Montreal and graduated with a BA and an MA.
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Robert Lantos later started a production company, RSL Entertainment, which produced fifteen films, most notably George Kaczender's In Praise of Older Women and Ted Kotcheff's Joshua Then and Now.
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Robert Lantos was chairman and CEO until 1998 when he sold his controlling interest in Alliance.
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Robert Lantos now produces films through his production company Serendipity Point Films.
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Robert Lantos is a member of the Order of Canada and holds an honorary Doctor of Letters from McGill University.
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Robert Lantos has served on the board of directors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Toronto International Film Festival, Indigo Books and Music, the Canadian Film Centre, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, of which he is a past chairman.
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Robert Lantos received the Academy of Canadian Film and Television's Air Canada Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Business of Filmmaking in Canada in 1991, the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association Chetwynd Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, and the Ontario Region's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1995.
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Robert Lantos is a recipient of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts Award, and The Toronto Arts Award.
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Robert Lantos is an inductee to the Canadian Film and Television Hall of Fame.
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Robert Lantos is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the European Film Academy.
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At the 2015 Toronto International film Festival, the Canadian Media Production Association announced that Robert Lantos had won 10th annual Feature Film Producer's Award.