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One of the most successful executives in the film industry today, who includes among her credits three of the highest-grossing films in motion picture history (“E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Jurassic Park” and “The Sixth Sense”), KATHLEEN KENNEDY (Executive Producer) counts “Raiders of the Lost Ark” as one of her early credits, when she worked as an associate producer with director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas. Her relationship with the legendary series continued through “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” which she produced with Frank Marshall and George Lucas and, most recently, as executive producer, with Lucas, of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” produced by Frank Marshall.
Kennedy currently heads The Kennedy/Marshall Company, which she founded in 1992 alongside director/producer Frank Marshall. Under their banner, she has produced such films as “Congo,” “The Indian in the Cupboard,” “Snow Falling on Cedars,” “A Map of the World,” “The Sixth Sense” and “Seabiscuit.”
Kennedy began a successful association with Spielberg when she served as his production assistant on “1941.” In addition to “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” she went on to become his associate producer on “Poltergeist” and producer on “E.T.” While “E.T.” was becoming an international phenomenon, Spielberg, Kennedy and Marshall were already in production on “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.”
In 1982, Kennedy co-founded Amblin Entertainment with Spielberg and Marshall, for which she produced or executive-produced such films as “Hook,” “Always,” “Gremlins,” “Gremlins 2: The New Batch,” “An American Tail,” “The Land Before Time,” “Young Sherlock Holmes,” “The Goonies,” “Innerspace,” “The Money Pit,” “*batteries not included,” “Dad,” “The Flintstones,” “Joe Versus the Volcano,” “Noises Off,” “An American Tail: Fievel Goes West,” “Cape Fear,” “Poltergeist III” and “Arachnophobia,” Frank Marshall’s directorial debut in 1990.
Kennedy also teamed with Spielberg, Marshall and Quincy Jones to produce “The Color Purple,” which earned eleven Academy Award® nominations in 1985, including Best Picture. Later that same year, Kennedy, Spielberg and Marshall produced 1985’s highest-grossing film, “Back to the Future,” and later produced its two highly successful sequels, “Back to the Future, Part II” and “Back to the Future, Part III.”
In 1988, Kennedy again earned the distinction of having produced the top-grossing film of the year for “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” which she produced with Marshall and Robert Watts. She then went on to produce “Empire of the Sun,” with Spielberg and Marshall, which the National Board of Review named Best Picture of the Year.
Kennedy served as executive producer on the critically acclaimed Spielberg-directed Holocaust drama “Schindler’s List,” which garnered seven Academy Awards® in 1993, including Best Director and Best Picture. That same year she also re-teamed with Robert Watts to produce Marshall’s second film, “Alive.”
In 1995, Kennedy produced the Amblin Entertainment/Malpaso Production “The Bridges of Madison County,” directed by Clint Eastwood. It was followed by Amblin Entertainment’s Jan DeBont-directed action thriller “Twister,” which Kennedy produced with Ian Bryce in 1996. Kennedy also served as executive producer on the Spielberg-directed “Jurassic Park” sequel “The Lost World.”
In 1999 and 2000, three films produced by The Kennedy/Marshall Company were released. The first, Universal’s “Snow Falling on Cedars,” was directed by Scott Hicks, award-winning director of “Shine.” It was followed by “The Sixth Sense,” which starred Bruce Willis and received six Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture. The next release was “A Map of the World” starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore. The Kennedy/Marshall Company also produced the IMAX film “Olympic Glory,” which was released in May 2000.
In 2001, Kennedy produced the Spielberg-directed “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence” with Bonnie Curtis. That same year, she produced “Jurassic Park III” with Spielberg and Gerald Molen. In 2002, she served as executive producer on M. Night Shyamalan’s “Signs,” starring Mel Gibson. In 2003, Kennedy produced (along with Marshall, Gary Ross and Jane Sindell) the critical and popular hit “Seabiscuit,” which was nominated for seven Academy Awards® and proved to be the biggest-selling drama on DVD for the year.
In 2005, Kennedy and Colin Wilson produced “War of the Worlds,” which was directed by Spielberg and starred Tom Cruise. Later that year, Kennedy re-teamed with Wilson, Barry Mendel and Spielberg to produce the Spielberg-helmed “Munich,” which received five Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture. In 2007, she produced “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” an adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s moving memoir directed by critically acclaimed artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and written by Oscar®-winner Ronald Harwood, for which Schnabel was awarded the prize for best director at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and received an Oscar® nomination for Best Director, along with another for Harwood’s screenplay, one for editing and a fourth for cinematography; and the English-language version of the French animated film “Persepolis,” which is based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel about a young girl growing up during the Iranian Revolution. The latter film tied for last year’s Jury Prize at Cannes and was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature Film.
Kennedy recently produced “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” based on the popular series of children’s book about the unseen world of fairies that exist all around us, and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” an epic romance directed by David Fincher, written by Oscar®-winner Eric Roth and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, due for release later this year. Upcoming, Kennedy will produce “Tintin,” a series of motion pictures directed by Spielberg and Peter Jackson. The two acclaimed filmmakers will use state-of-the-art performance capture technology to bring Tintin, the iconic character created by Georges Remi (better known to the world by his pen name “Herge”) to the screen.
Kennedy is chair of the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Producers Branch Executive Committee and is a member of the Academy’s Board of Governors. She recently completed her tenure as President of the Producers Guild of America, which bestowed upon her its highest honor, the Charles Fitzsimons Service Award, in 2006. She and Marshall are the recipients of the 2008 Producers Guild of America’s David O. Selznick Award for Career Achievement.
Chris
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