Michael Nozik

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Michael Nozik
Born	Michael Gary Nozik November 31, 1954 (1954-11-31) (age 55) Holyoke, MA, USA
Occupation	Film Producer

Michael Nozik is an American film producer. He won a BAFTA award for 'Best Film Not In The English Language' for The Motorcycle Diaries in 2004. His credits also include Love in the Time of Cholera, Syriana, Quiz Show, and The Legend of Bagger Vance.

Life and career

Nozik grew up in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He attended Skidmore College before moving to Cambridge, where he managed the Orson Wells movie theater. It was here that he would meet (at that time unknown and unestablished) director Mira Nair, who would later go on to be one of the most internationally recognized filmmakers of the world. They would eventually start their careers together.

Nozik received an Academy Award nomination as producer of Best Picture nominee Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford and starring Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, and Paul Scofield.

For six years, he was president of Robert Redford's film production companies, Wildwood Enterprises and South Fork Pictures.

Nozik's producing credits include Dan Algrant's People I Know, starring Al Pacino and Kim Basinger; and Robert Redford's The Legend of Bagger Vance, starring Matt Damon and Will Smith. For South Fork, he also produced How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog, starring Kenneth Branagh and Robin Wright Penn; Tamara Jenkins' Slums of Beverly Hills, starring Natasha Lyonne and Marisa Tomei; and Edward Burns' No Looking Back and She's the One (as executive producer).

Previously, Nozik had produced three films for director Mira Nair: The Perez Family, starring Marisa Tomei and Anjelica Huston; Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury; and the Academy Award-nominated Salaam Bombay!

His other producing credits include Michael Apted's Thunderheart, starring Val Kilmer; Joan Micklin Silver's Crossing Delancey, starring Amy Irving; and Abel Ferrara's China Girl, starring David Caruso. For television, he executive-produced PBS's Skinwalkers, based on the Tony Hillerman novel and directed by Chris Eyre; and the HBO movie Criminal Justice, directed by Andy Wolk.

Recently, Nozik was a founding partner in Serenade Films, which financed low-budget films for theatrical release. Serenade has been created on the egalitarian business model in which the entire filmmaking team works for extremely low but equal fees and then shares from first dollar in the revenue from the sale and distribution of the film.

Currently Nozik has teamed with Paul Haggis to create Highway 61 Films, a reverse from Nozik's earlier company. Highway 61 Films aims to create films in a larger budget bracket.

Highway 61 Films

As of 2008, Nozik and his producing/directing partner Paul Haggis have formed Highway 61 Films. Their slate of films in development include a film adaptation of the popular fantasy novel Ranger's Apprentice by John Flanagan as well an adaptaion of the novel Ordinary Spy being written by Bones show-runner, Stephen Nathan.

Filmography

AS PRODUCER OR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

1. The Next Three Days (2010) (producer) (FILMING)
2. Undone (2010) (executive producer) (POST-PRODUCTION)
3. The Narrows (2008) (executive producer)
4. Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) (executive producer)
5. Syriana (2005) (producer)
6. Twelve and Holding (2005) (executive producer)
7. The Great New Wonderful (2005) (executive producer)
8. Game 6 (2005) (executive producer)
9. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) (producer)
10. Skinwalkers (2002) (TV) (executive producer)
11. People I Know (2002) (producer)
12. Love in the Time of Cholera (2002) (executive producer)
13. The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) (producer)
14. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000) (producer)
15. Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) (producer)
16. No Looking Back (1998) (producer)
17. She's the One (1996) (executive producer)
18. The Perez Family (1995) (producer)
19. Quiz Show (1994) (producer)
20. Thunderheart (1992) (executive producer)
21. Mississippi Masala (1991) (producer)
22. Criminal Justice (1990) (TV) (producer)
23. Crossing Delancey (1988) (producer)
24. China Girl (1987) (producer)
25. Death of a Salesman (1985) (TV) (associate producer)

External links

• Michael Nozik at the Internet Movie Database