30 Facts About Scott Rudin

Scott Rudin was born on July 14,1958 and is an American film, television, and theatre producer.

Scott Rudin is one of eighteen people who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.

In 2021 Rudin stepped back from his Broadway, film and streaming projects following The Hollywood Reporter allegations of abusive behavior towards his employees; Rudin's name was removed from a number of upcoming films, and Rudin's business relationship with the studio A24 was terminated.

Scott Rudin was born and raised in Baldwin, New York, on Long Island in a Jewish family.

In lieu of attending college, Scott Rudin took a job as a casting director and ended up starting his own company.

Scott Rudin's newly minted firm cast numerous Broadway shows, including Annie for Mike Nichols.

Scott Rudin cast PBS's Verna: USO Girl, starring Sissy Spacek and William Hurt; and the mini-series The Scarlet Letter starring Meg Foster, Kevin Conway and John Heard;, the films King of the Gypsies, The Wanderers, Simon with Alan Arkin and Resurrection.

In 1980, Rudin moved to Los Angeles, taking up employment at Edgar J Scherick Associates, where he served as producer on a variety of films including I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, the NBC miniseries Little Gloria.

Not long after, Scott Rudin placed his production shingle in dormancy and joined 20th Century-Fox as an executive producer.

Scott Rudin rose through the ranks at Fox and became president of production in 1986 at 28 years old.

Previously, Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin had public confrontations during the production of The Hours, which Scott Rudin produced for Miramax Films after it became a studio subsidiary under Disney.

In subsequent news coverage SPE Co-Chair Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin were noted to have had an email exchange about Pascal's upcoming encounter with President Barack Obama that included characterizations described as racist.

Typically producing between two and five productions per year, Scott Rudin is one of Broadway's most prolific commercial producers.

Scott Rudin started a deal with Jujamcyn to develop and produce new plays for the theater chain.

In 1994, Scott Rudin won the Best Musical Tony Award for his production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion.

In 1996, Scott Rudin produced the revival of the Stephen Sondheim and Larry Gelbart musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, for which Nathan Lane won his first Tony Award.

Scott Rudin left the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park in February 2012 ahead of an April opening, due to a feud with writer Bruce Norris that was unrelated to the play.

In 2015, it was announced that Scott Rudin would produce Groundhog Day, a musical adaptation of the film Groundhog Day, originally starring Bill Murray.

Scott Rudin withdrew from the production in June 2016, citing creative differences with the production team.

In 2016, in a throwback to an earlier practice on Broadway, Scott Rudin demanded that all critics attend the opening night performance of his production of The Front Page, which starred Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Holland Taylor, and Robert Morse.

Scott Rudin produced the first Broadway production of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, newly adapted for the stage by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Bartlett Sher, and starring Jeff Daniels.

Scott Rudin becomes Atticus Finch by the end of the play, and while he's going along, he has a kind of running argument with Calpurnia, the housekeeper, which is a much bigger role in the play I just wrote.

Scott Rudin has been called "Hollywood's biggest a-hole", "the most feared man in town", and notoriously hot-tempered.

Scott Rudin acknowledged having "a temper" in a 2008 interview, but said he had "grown up".

Ultimately, No Country for Old Men won the Best Picture prize, with Scott Rudin accepting the award on stage.

Scott Rudin won a Grammy award for The Book of Mormon.

At the 2011 Producers Guild of America Awards, Scott Rudin became the only person ever to be nominated twice in one year.

Scott Rudin was nominated for producing the Facebook biographical film The Social Network and was nominated for their remake of the classic western True Grit.

Scott Rudin is married to John Barlow, who previously owned the Broadway communications firm Barlow-Hartman Public Relations.

Scott Rudin was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.