Richard N. Gladstein

Richard N. Gladstein is a two-time Academy Award nominated film producer. His production company is FilmColony. He served as the Dean of the American Film Institute Conservatory and currently serves as Executive Director of Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema a part of Brooklyn College and the City University of New York.

Richard N. Gladstein
Born	Bronx, New York City
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Film producer, Educator
Spouse	divorced
Children	2

Biography

Richard N. Gladstein, a filmmaker and educator, is the Executive Director at Brooklyn College's Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, and president and founder of the motion picture production company FilmColony. He is two-time Academy Award nominated film producer, and former Dean at the American Film Institute Conservatory AFI.

Cumulatively, Gladstein's produced films have received 27 Academy Award nominations and earned in excess of US$1billion worldwide.

Gladstein is a frequent collaborator of Quentin Tarantino - as Producer of the 70mm western The Hateful Eight, and Executive Producer of Tarantino's first three films: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown.

Gladstein's two Academy Award nominations for ‘Best Picture of the Year’ were for producing The Cider House Rules and Finding Neverland. His other produced films include; The Bourne Identity, The Time Being (and also co-wrote the screenplay), Paper Man, Killshot, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, She's All That, The Nanny Diaries, Hurlyburly, The Crossing Guard and 54, among others.

Prior to the formation of FilmColony, Gladstein was Executive Vice President & Head of Production at Miramax Films, and Vice President of Production & Acquisitions at LIVE Entertainment. He also served as the Marion Knott Filmmaker-in-Residence at the Chapman University's Dodge College of Film & Media Arts.

Gladstein frequently speaks about filmmaking, producing and the entertainment industry, at such venues as the Producer's Guild of America "Produced By" conference, The Beijing Film Academy, The Tel Aviv Cinematheque, and twice testified before the US Congress regarding film piracy and copyright protection. He has served as a juror and panel moderator for many festivals and awards organizations including the Gotham Awards, among many others.

Personal life

Gladstein received his bachelor's degree in film from Boston University's College of Communication. Her is currently a candidate to receive a Master's degree in Urban education from the Graduate Center City University of New York.

He founded The Bloom's Syndrome Foundation which is dedicated toward medical research on Bloom's Syndrome, an Ashkenazi Jewish genetic disease with which his son was diagnosed in 2004.

Gladstein is a long-time advisor and consultant to the Jewish Genetic Disease Consortium (JGDC), the Bloom's Syndrome Association, and he is founder and president of the Bloom's Syndrome Foundation.

Filmography

He was a producer on all films, unless noted otherwise.

Film

Year	Film	Credit	Notes
1989	Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!	Executive producer
1990	Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation
1991	Lonely Hearts	Executive producer
	Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
1992	Reservoir Dogs	Executive producer
	Only You	Executive producer
	Dark Horse	Executive producer
1993	A House in the Hills	Executive producer
	The Young Americans	Executive producer
1994	Pulp Fiction	Co-Executive producer	7 Academy Award nomnations, winner Best Original Screenplay [[Quentin Tarantino]], [[Roger Avary]]
1995	The Crossing Guard	Executive producer
	The Journey of August King	Executive producer
1997	Jackie Brown	Executive producer
1998	54
	Hurlyburly
1999	She's All That
	The Cider House Rules		7 Academy Award nominations, Winner - Best Supporting Actor [[Michael Caine]], Best Adapted Screenplay [[John Irving]]
2002	The Bourne Identity
2003	Levity
	Duplex	Executive producer
2004	Finding Neverland		7 Academy Award nominations, Best Film of the Year - National Board of Review
2006	Journey to the End of the Night
2007	The Nanny Diaries
	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium		Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best British Film
2008	Killshot
2009	Paper Man
2012	The Time Being	also Screenwriter
2013	Expecting	Executive producer
2015	The Hateful Eight		Academy Award winner - [[Ennio Morricone]] - Best Score
2016	Dominion

As an actor

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1989	Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!	Detective
1990	Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation	Woody
1991	Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker	Driver Dad

As writer

Year	Film	Notes
1990	Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation
2012	The Time Being

Thanks

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1991	Drop Dead Fred	Thanks
1993	Frauds	The producers would like to thank
1999	From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter	Special thanks

Television

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
1993	Beyond the Law	Executive producer	Television film
1998	Since You've Been Gone		Television film

Trivia

In a 1994 interview with Charlie Rose, Quentin Tarantino states that he owes his career to Gladstein.

[Gladstein] was the guy at the company (...) that, like, said: "I'm gonna take a chance on this kid", you know. I really owe my career to him.

External links

• Richard N. Gladstein at IMDb
• FilmColony.com