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Dede Gardner
Highest Rated: 100% Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) (2021)
Lowest Rated: 35% Eat Pray Love (2010)
Birthday: Oct 16, 1967
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Best known as the Oscar-winning producer of "12 Years a Slave" (2013) and "Moonlight" (2016), Dede Gardner was responsible for putting together critically acclaimed films as president of Plan B Entertainment. Although Plan B Entertainment was originally founded by Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, and Brad Grey in 2002, Gardner was brought in when the founding trio split ways in 2006. Her first film under Plan B Entertainment was adapting Augusten Burroughs' memoir "Running with Scissors" into a film. Although it featured an impressive cast that included Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin and Gwyneth Paltrow, "Running with Scissors" (2006) was poorly received by critics. However, Gardner followed it up with a string of critically-acclaimed films that established Plan B Entertainment a top quality production company. She was nominated for Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards for the war drama "A Mighty Heart" (2007) and in the following year she received her first Academy Award Best Picture nomination for Terence Malick's experimental drama "Tree of Life" (2008), which also starred Brad Pitt. Gardner continued to work with Pitt in her next three productions, all film adaptations of previous literary work. They filmed the neo-noir crime film "Killing Them Softly" (2012), followed by the summer blockbuster "World War Z" (2013), the zombie-infested horror flick based on the graphic novel of the same name. Later that year, Gardner and Pitt brought the historical drama "12 Years a Slave" (2013) to the big screen to near universal acclaim. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as an free African-American man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, "12 Years a Slave" received numerous awards, including Gardner's first Oscar for Best Picture. Gardner followed that triumph with Ava DuVernay's civil rights drama "Selma" (2014), Adam McKay's comedy-drama about the 2008 financial meltdown "The Big Short" (2015) and supernatural TV drama "The OA (Netflix 2016). Gardner won her second Best Picture Oscar as producer of Barry Jenkins' drama "Moonlight" (2016).
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | F1 | Producer | - | 2025 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nickel Boys | Producer | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wolfs | Producer | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Producer | - | 2024 |
45% |
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Bob Marley: One Love | Producer | $96.8M | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | World War Z 2 | Producer | - | 2024 |
71% |
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Landscape with Invisible Hand | Producer | $190.2K | 2023 |
90% |
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Women Talking | Producer | $5.4M | 2022 |
88% |
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She Said | Producer | $5.8M | 2022 |
42% |
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Blonde | Producer | - | 2022 |
80% |
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Father of the Bride | Producer | - | 2022 |
100% | No Score Yet | Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
98% |
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Minari | Producer | $700.0K | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tripping with Nils Frahm | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
90% |
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Kajillionaire | Producer | $524.0K | 2020 |
40% |
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Irresistible | Producer | - | 2020 |
71% |
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The King | Producer | - | 2019 |
83% |
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Ad Astra | Producer | $50.2M | 2019 |
93% |
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Producer | $4.5M | 2019 |
95% |
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If Beale Street Could Talk | Producer | $14.9M | 2018 |
64% |
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Vice | Producer | $47.8M | 2018 |
67% |
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Beautiful Boy | Producer | $7.6M | 2018 |
79% |
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Brad's Status | Producer | $2.1M | 2017 |
87% |
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Okja | Producer | - | 2017 |
48% |
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War Machine | Producer | - | 2017 |
86% |
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The Lost City of Z | Producer | $8.6M | 2016 |
98% |
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Moonlight | Producer | $27.9M | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Voyage of Time | Producer | - | 2016 |
68% |
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Voyage of Time: Life's Journey | Producer | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet |
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Hitting the Apex | Executive Producer | - | 2015 |
89% |
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The Big Short | Producer | $70.2M | 2015 |
45% |
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True Story | Producer | $4.7M | 2015 |
82% |
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Nightingale | Executive Producer | - | 2014 |
99% |
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Selma | Producer | $52.1M | 2014 |
94% |
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The Normal Heart | Executive Producer | - | 2014 |
95% |
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12 Years a Slave | Producer | $56.7M | 2013 |
67% |
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World War Z | Producer | $202.4M | 2013 |
74% |
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Killing Them Softly | Producer | $14.9M | 2012 |
85% |
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The Tree of Life | Producer | $13.3M | 2011 |
35% |
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Eat Pray Love | Producer | $80.6M | 2010 |
69% |
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee | Producer | - | 2009 |
38% |
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The Time Traveler's Wife | Producer | $63.4M | 2009 |
77% |
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Producer | $3.9M | 2007 |
79% |
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A Mighty Heart | Producer | $9.2M | 2007 |
70% |
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Year of the Dog | Producer | $1.5M | 2007 |
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85% | 74% | Outer Range | Executive Producer | 2022 2024 |
79% | 77% | 3 Body Problem | Executive Producer | 2024 |
86% | 79% | Feud | Executive Producer | 2017 2024 |
No Score Yet | 81% | LEGO Masters | Executive Producer | 2022-2023 |
100% | 94% | High School | Executive Producer | 2022 |
94% | 76% | The Underground Railroad | Executive Producer | 2021 |
58% | 89% | Sweetbitter | Executive Producer | 2018-2019 |
84% | 84% | The OA | Executive Producer | 2016 2019 |
53% | 70% | Resurrection | Executive Producer | 2014-2015 |