Edward Saxon

Edward Saxon
Born	Edward Bradley Saxon (1956-11-17) November 17, 1956 St. Louis, Missouri
Occupation	Film producer

Edward Bradley Saxon (born November 17, 1956) is an American film producer.

Early life

Saxon was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Kirkwood High School from 1972 to 1976.

He studied at McGill University from 1976 to 1980. While at McGill, he founded the Tuesday Night Cafe Theatre with Veronica Brady and Peter Grossman, and the company is still running today. Saxon acted in many plays at the Players' Theatre, McGill's famous Red and White Review. He also founded a radio comedy troupe called The Circle Jerks.

He then studied at The Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC School of Cinema-Television.

Career

Saxon is arguably best known for the film The Silence of the Lambs, which is, to date, the third and last film to sweep the five main categories of Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. (The others are It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.)

Formerly Jonathan Demme's producing partner, his films include Beloved, Ulee's Gold, That Thing You Do!, The Truth About Charlie, Married to the Mob, Miami Blues and Philadelphia.

After parting ways with Demme, Saxon produced Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze's Adaptation.. He produced Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation in 2006. More recent projects include Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes, and Our Family Wedding, starring Forest Whitaker and America Ferrera.

Originally an actor, Saxon was one of VH1's first VJ's in New York City. He has made several cameos in the films he has produced, most notably as a head in a jar in Silence of the Lambs.

Filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year	Film	Credit
1986	Something Wild	Executive producer
1988	Married to the Mob
1990	Miami Blues	Executive producer
1991	The Silence of the Lambs
1993	Philadelphia
1995	Devil in a Blue Dress	Executive producer
1996	That Thing You Do!
1997	Ulee's Gold	Executive producer
1998	Beloved
1999	The Opportunists	Executive producer
2002	The Truth About Charlie
2002	Adaptation
2006	Fast Food Nation	Executive producer
2009	Away We Go
2010	Our Family Wedding
2014	Elsa & Fred

As an actor

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1986	Something Wild	Kevin Stroup
1990	Miami Blues	Krishna Ravindra at Miami Airport
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Benjamin Raspail (Head in a Jar)	Uncredited
1994	The Ref	Reporter
1998	Beloved	Man with Rubbery Face	Uncredited

Thanks

Year	Film	Role
1993	Household Saints	Thanks
1996	Some Mother's Son	Special thanks
2005	Me and You and Everyone We Know
2009	Where the Wild Things Are
2021	Music	The producers wish to thank

Television

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
1988	Haiti Dreams of Democracy	Executive producer	Documentary
1991	Women & Men 2	Co-producer	Television film
1997	Subway Stories	Executive producer	Television film
2011	Enlightened	Co-executive producer
2016−19	Ray Donovan	Co-executive producer

As an actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Women & Men 2	Ad Man	Television film

External links

Edward Saxon Productions
Edward Saxon at IMDb
Interview with Edward Saxon, Adaptation
Edward Saxon and others discuss why so many novels never make it to the big screen, The Independent

Academy Award for Best Picture

1920s
Wings – Film Studio: Famous Players–Lasky (1927–1928) The Broadway Melody – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1928–1929)

1930s

All Quiet on the Western Front – Film Studio: Universal (1929–1930)
Cimarron – Film Studio: RKO (1930–1931)
Grand Hotel – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1931–1932)
Cavalcade – Film Studio: Fox (1932–1933)
It Happened One Night – Film Studio: Columbia (1934)
Mutiny on the Bounty – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1935)
The Great Ziegfeld – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1936)
The Life of Emile Zola – Film Studio: Warner Bros. (1937)
You Can't Take It with You – Film Studio: Columbia (1938)
Gone with the Wind – Film Studio: Selznick International Pictures (1939)

1940s

Rebecca – Film Studio: Selznick International Pictures (1940)
How Green Was My Valley – Film Studio: 20th Century Fox (1941)
Mrs. Miniver – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
Casablanca – Film Studio: Warner Bros. (1943)
Going My Way – Film Studio: Paramount (1944)
The Lost Weekend – Film Studio: Paramount (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives – Film Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Productions (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement – Film Studio: 20th Century Fox (1947)
Hamlet – Film Studio: J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films (1948)
All the King's Men – Film Studio: Columbia (1949)

1950s

All About Eve – Film Studio: 20th Century Fox (1950)
An American in Paris – Producer(s): Arthur Freed (1951)
The Greatest Show on Earth – Producer(s): Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
From Here to Eternity – Producer(s): Buddy Adler (1953)
On the Waterfront – Producer(s): Sam Spiegel (1954)
Marty – Producer(s): Harold Hecht (1955)
Around the World in 80 Days – Producer(s): Michael Todd (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai – Producer(s): Sam Spiegel (1957)
Gigi – Producer(s): Arthur Freed (1958)
Ben-Hur – Producer(s): Sam Zimbalist (1959)

1960s

The Apartment – Producer(s): Billy Wilder (1960)
West Side Story – Producer(s): Robert Wise (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia – Producer(s): Sam Spiegel (1962)
Tom Jones – Producer(s): Tony Richardson (1963)
My Fair Lady – Producer(s): Jack L. Warner (1964)
The Sound of Music – Producer(s): Robert Wise (1965)
A Man for All Seasons – Producer(s): Fred Zinnemann (1966)
In the Heat of the Night – Producer(s): Walter Mirisch (1967)
Oliver! – Producer(s): John Woolf (1968)
Midnight Cowboy – Producer(s): Jerome Hellman (1969)

1970s

Patton – Producer(s): Frank McCarthy (1970)
The French Connection – Producer(s): Philip D'Antoni (1971)
The Godfather – Producer(s): Albert S. Ruddy (1972)
The Sting – Producer(s): Tony Bill, Julia Phillips, and Michael Phillips (1973)
The Godfather Part II – Producer(s): Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, and Fred Roos (1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Producer(s): Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz (1975)
Rocky – Producer(s): Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976)
Annie Hall – Producer(s): Charles H. Joffe (1977)
The Deer Hunter – Producer(s): Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall, and Barry Spikings (1978)
Kramer vs. Kramer – Producer(s): Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)

1980s

Ordinary People – Producer(s): Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
Chariots of Fire – Producer(s): David Puttnam (1981)
Gandhi – Producer(s): Richard Attenborough (1982)
Terms of Endearment – Producer(s): James L. Brooks (1983)
Amadeus – Producer(s): Saul Zaentz (1984)
Out of Africa – Producer(s): Sydney Pollack (1985)
Platoon – Producer(s): Arnold Kopelson (1986)
The Last Emperor – Producer(s): Jeremy Thomas (1987)
Rain Man – Producer(s): Mark Johnson (1988)
Driving Miss Daisy – Producer(s): Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck (1989)

1990s

Dances with Wolves – Producer(s): Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs – Producer(s): Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon, and Kenneth Utt (1991)
Unforgiven – Producer(s): Clint Eastwood (1992)
Schindler's List – Producer(s): Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, and Steven Spielberg (1993)
Forrest Gump – Producer(s): Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, and Steve Tisch (1994)
Braveheart – Producer(s): Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson, and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
The English Patient – Producer(s): Saul Zaentz (1996)
Titanic – Producer(s): James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
Shakespeare in Love – Producer(s): Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick (1998)
American Beauty – Producer(s): Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)

2000s

Gladiator – Producer(s): David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, and Douglas Wick (2000)
A Beautiful Mind – Producer(s): Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (2001)
Chicago – Producer(s): Martin Richards (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Producer(s): Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh (2003)
Million Dollar Baby – Producer(s): Clint Eastwood, Tom Rosenberg, and Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
Crash – Producer(s): Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman (2005)
The Departed – Producer(s): Graham King (2006)
No Country for Old Men – Producer(s): Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Scott Rudin (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire – Producer(s): Christian Colson (2008)
The Hurt Locker – Producer(s): Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro (2009)

2010s

The King's Speech – Producer(s): Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin (2010)
The Artist – Producer(s): Thomas Langmann (2011)
Argo – Producer(s): Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov (2012)
12 Years a Slave – Producer(s): Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Brad Pitt (2013)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Producer(s): Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
Spotlight – Producer(s): Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, and Michael Sugar (2015)
Moonlight – Producer(s): Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Adele Romanski (2016)
The Shape of Water – Producer(s): J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017)
Green Book – Producer(s): Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, and Charles B. Wessler (2018)
Parasite – Producer(s): Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019)

2020s
Nomadland – Producer(s): Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, and Chloé Zhao (2020) CODA – Producer(s): Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, and Patrick Wachsberger (2021) Everything Everywhere All at Once – Producer(s): Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, and Jonathan Wang (2022)

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