Wendy Finerman

Wendy Finerman
Born	(1960-08-02) August 2, 1960 California, United States
Occupation	producer
Years active	1988–present
Spouse(s)	Mark Canton David Peterson
Family	Karen Finerman (sister)
Awards	Best Picture 1994 Forrest Gump Best Children's Film 1997 FairyTale: A True Story Best Motion Picture – Drama 1994 Forrest Gump

Wendy Finerman is an American film producer of nearly a dozen feature films.

Biography

Finerman was born to a Jewish family^[1] and raised in Beverly Hills, California.^[2] Her sister, Karen Finerman, is a hedgefund owner/trader in New York City and appears on CNBC's Fast Money.^[3]

Finerman was one of three producers who won the Academy Award for Best Picture for Forrest Gump in 1994 and a BAFTA Award for Fairy Tale in 1998. She has also produced such popular films as The Fan, Stepmom, Drumline, and The Devil Wears Prada. Finerman was formerly married to producer Mark Canton and now is married to David Peterson. The mother of four children, she is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and runs her own company, Wendy Finerman Productions.^[4]

Filmography

In the films listed she was producer unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year	Film	Credit
1988	Hot to Trot
1994	Forrest Gump
1994	I Like It Like That	Executive producer
1996	The Fan
1997	FairyTale: A True Story
1998	Stepmom
2001	Sugar & Spice
2002	Drumline
2006	The Devil Wears Prada
2007	P.S. I Love You
2012	One for the Money
TBA	Rouge

Television

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
1999	In a Class of His Own	Executive producer	Television film
2002	One for the Money	Executive producer	Television film
2006	Surrender, Dorothy	Executive producer	Television film
2014	Drumline: A New Beat	Executive producer	Television film
2017	Love by the 10th Date	Executive producer	Television film
TBA	Guilty Pleasures	Executive producer	Television film

References

↑ Spiro, Amy (October 18, 2010). "Jewish Girls And Money". The Jewish Week. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
↑ New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths FINERMAN, JANE" March 28, 2012
↑ MSNBC: "An excerpt from Karen Finerman’s “Finerman’s Rules”" June 5, 2013
↑ "Wendy Finderman". Variety.

External links

Wendy Finerman at IMDb

Awards for Wendy Finerman

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)

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama