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This story first appeared in the March 7 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
THR deputy photo editor Carrie Smith, senior editor Stacey Wilson and awards analyst Scott Feinberg managed to convince 34 Oscar-winning and -nominated producers of 48 movies to assemble at Evans’ Woodland estate in Beverly Hills. “We decided to aim big and gather a cross-section of generations,” says Feinberg.
Quincy Jones (The Color Purple) arrived fashionably late to a hero’s welcome; Gibson wore the same shirt as Jon Landau (Titanic), who quipped, “Did you bring another shirt?” The shoot also reunited Fred Roos (The Godfather Part II) and Michael Phillips (The Sting) after 40 years.
“Knowing that we were among some of the greatest personalities in the history of cinema was amazing,” says Wilson.
Academy Award-winning and nominated producers of 48 films in the running for best picture gathered at the Beverly Hills home of Robert Evans for a class photo. Click the photo to take a look inside the once-in-a-lifetime moments.
Who’s Who and Their Oscar History
1. Jon Landau
Winner, Titanic (1998); nominee, Avatar (2010)
2. Robbie Brenner
Nominee, Dallas Buyers Club (2014)
3. Ron Yerxa
Nominee, Nebraska (2014)
4. Jonathan Gordon
Nominee, Silver Linings Playbook (2013), American Hustle (2014)
5. Nicolas Chartier
Winner, The Hurt Locker (2010)
6. Donna Gigliotti
Winner, Shakespeare in Love (1999); nominee, The Reader (2009), Silver Linings Playbook (2013)
7. Richard Suckle
Nominee, American Hustle (2014)
8. Bill Pohlad
Nominee, The Tree of Life (2012)
9. Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Nominee, The Wolf of Wall Street (2014)
10. Michael Phillips
Winner, The Sting (1974); nominee, Taxi Driver (1977)
11. Frank Marshall
Nominee, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982), The Color Purple (1986), The Sixth Sense (2000), Seabiscuit (2004), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009)
12. Irwin Winkler
Winner, Rocky (1977); nominee, Raging Bull (1981), The Right Stuff (1984), Goodfellas (1991)
13. Stanley R. Jaffe
Winner, Kramer vs. Kramer (1980); nominee, Fatal Attraction (1988)
14. Mike Medavoy
Nominee, Black Swan (2011)
15. Rachel Winter
Nominee, Dallas Buyers Club (2014)
16. Arnold Kopelson
Winner, Platoon (1987); nominee, The Fugitive (1994)
17. Jason Reitman
Nominee, Up in the Air (2010)
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18. Stacey Sher
Nominee, Erin Brockovich (2001), Django Unchained (2013)
19. Ivan Reitman
Nominee, Up in the Air (2010)
20. Dan Jinks
Winner, American Beauty (2000); nominee, Milk (2009)
21. Reginald Hudlin
Nominee, Django Unchained (2013)
22. Mark Johnson
Winner, Rain Man (1989); nominee, Bugsy (1992)
23. Mel Gibson
Winner, Braveheart (1996)
24. Brian Grazer
Winner, A Beautiful Mind (2002); nominee, Apollo 13 (1996), Frost/Nixon (2009)
25. Sherry Lansing
Nominee, Fatal Attraction (1988)
26. Albert Berger
Nominee, Nebraska (2014)
27. Alan Ladd Jr.
Winner, Braveheart (1996)
28. Robert Evans
Nominee, Chinatown (1975)
29. Albert S. Ruddy
Winner, The Godfather (1973), Million Dollar Baby (2005)
30. Fred Roos
Winner, The Godfather, Part II (1975); nominee, The Conversation (1975), Apocalypse Now (1980)
31. Walter Mirisch
Winner, In the Heat of the Night (1968)
32. Lawrence Bender
Nominee, Pulp Fiction (1995), Good Will Hunting (1998), Inglourious Basterds (2010)
33. Diana Ossana
Nominee, Brokeback Mountain (2006)
34. Quincy Jones
Nominee, The Color Purple (1986)
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