Douglas Wick(I)

Douglas Wick is an award-winning motion-picture producer whose films have earned $3 billion at the box office, as well as 22 Academy Award® nominations and seven Academy Award® wins. He is the Founder of Red Wagon Entertainment and serves as Co-Chairman. Wick's productions include the upcoming Ridley Scott-directed Gladiator II, starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, and Denzel Washington; The Great Gatsby, which earned two Academy Awards®; Memoirs of a Geisha, which won three Academy Awards®; and The Divergent Series. Wick is best known for producing Gladiator, which won five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, and became a worldwide cinematic phenomenon, winning two Golden Globes®, four BAFTAs, the PGA's Motion Picture of the Year Award, the MTV Movie Award for Best Movie and the AFI's Movie of the Year. Wick also garnered a bevy of Academy Award® nominations and a Golden Globe® win for his first solo producing effort Working Girl, directed by Mike Nichols. Wick's Girl, Interrupted won Angelina Jolie both an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe® for her breakthrough performance. Wick's prior films also include the family hit Stuart Little, starring the first CGI leading man; Wolf, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer; the cult classic The Craft; Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man; and Spy Game, which paired Robert Redford and Brad Pitt under director Tony Scott. In 2001 Wick expanded his production company, Red Wagon Entertainment, to bring in Lucy Fisher, former Vice-Chairman of Sony's Columbia Tri-Star Motion Picture Group, as Red Wagon's Co-Chairman. Wick and Fisher went on to produce a wide range of motion pictures together, including Memoirs of a Geisha, Stuart Little 2, Jarhead, Peter Pan, Lawless, and RV. He has branched into television production and was Executive Producer on the TV series, Joe Pickett. After graduating Cum Laude from Yale, Wick began his career as a Production Assistant for filmmaker Alan J. Pakula and shortly after earned his first credit as an Associate Producer on Pakula's Starting Over. His many awards include the NATO ShoWest Producer of the Year Award, the Producers Guild of America's David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, The Hollywood Film Festival Producer of the Year Award, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Producer of the Year, the Motion Picture Club's Producer of the Year, the Saturn Award, the Los Angeles Father of the Year Award, and the Friends of Cancer Research Advocacy's Lifetime Achievement Award. When Wick's youngest daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, he co-founded CuresNow, an organization to promote regenerative medicine. Along with Fisher, he served as Co-Chair of Proposition 71, the successful Stem Cell initiative in California, which has since become the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and has awarded $3 billion in grants for regenerative medicine and research in the state. In addition, he has served on the Board of Trustees for the Center for Early Education in Los Angeles and the Board of Directors for the Producers Guild of America.