Meet Producer Stacey Sher during a private Zoom session!
Film and Television Producer Stacey Sher has produced more than two dozen major motion pictures amassing nearly $2.2 billion at the global box office. Her many critically acclaimed and commercially successful production credits include such notable titles as Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight; Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight and Contagion; Garden State; Reality Bites; and Get Shorty.
Sher is a two-time Academy Award nominee and an Emmy Award nominee. She received Academy nomination honors for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington, as well as for Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich, starring Julia Roberts and Albert Finney. Sher also served as an executive producer on the Academy Award winning documentary short, Period, End of Sentence, which was co-produced by her daughter, Maggie Brown.
She received an Emmy award nomination for FX’s Mrs. America, which was nominated for a total of eight categories in the 2020 Emmy Awards. She executive produced the limited television series alongside Cate Blanchett, who stars as Phyllis Schlaffly and leads the ensemble cast with Rose Byrne, Uzo Aduba, Margo Martindale, Tracey Ullman, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Paulson, Jeanne Tripplehorn and John Slattery. Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and the unexpected backlash led by Schlaffly.
Sher has produced nearly a dozen additional television series and television movies, which include AMC’s hit series Into the Badlands; the critically acclaimed television series Sweet/Vicious; and Reno 911, on which she has served as an executive producer for all seasons. Sher recently served as Co-President of Activision Blizzard Studios, launching the film and television division for the prolific game company. While there, Sher served as a producer on all three seasons of the Emmy-Award nominated Netflix series, Skylanders Academy.
Currently, Sher is an executive producer on the upcoming biographical Aretha Franklin
film, Respect, starring Jennifer Hudson and directed by Liesl Tommy, set to release in January of 2021.
Sher has been the recipient of many honors, including from the ACLU on behalf of her commitment to film and television projects that are empowering, inspirational and thought- provoking, and for dealing with issues from public safety to education and social justice to censorship. In 2018, Sher was honored by Chrysalis at their annual Butterfly Ball for her contributions to the Los Angeles community. In 2007, Freedom Writers, which was produced by Sher and written and directed by Richard LaGravenese, was chosen as the recipient of the Humanitas Prize. In 2006, World Trade Center, which was produced by Sher and directed by Oliver Stone, was chosen for the 2006 Christopher Award, which is presented to those who create films that affirm the highest values of the human spirit. Sher was also the recipient of the Mary Pickford Award from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2002 and the Women in Film Independent Vision Award in 2000. In 2013, Sher returned to her alma mater and delivered the commencement address at the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) graduation ceremony.
Sher is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, BAFTA, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the Producers Guild of America.
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