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Scott Rudin

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Scott Rudin was born on July 14, 1958 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and casting director, known for No Country for Old Men (2007), The Social Network (2010) and Lady Bird (2017).

The eleventh person and seventh man to receive the status of EGOT. The other recipients (chronologically) are Richard Rodgers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Lopez, Andrew Lloyd Webber,Tim Rice, John Legend, Alan Menken, Jennifer Hudson, Viola Davis and Elton John.
Was reportedly the inspiration for Buddy Ackerman (played by Kevin Spacey) in Swimming with Sharks (1994).
Was President of 20th Century Fox in 1986.
Left Paramount Pictures to head up the Walt Disney Company's Miramax Films, after Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein left to create a new independent film studio. After Sherry Lansing (retired chairman and CEO of Paramount) and Jonathan Dolgen (former president of Paramount) left, he said that: "I had a hugely emotional response to Sherry and John leaving and the heart went out of the place for me." (Source: Oscarwatch.com). [2005].
He has produced or executive produced eleven films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Hours (2002), The Queen (2006), No Country for Old Men (2007), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Social Network (2010), True Grit (2010), Moneyball (2011), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), Captain Phillips (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Fences (2016) and Lady Bird (2017). No Country for Old Men won in the category.

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.
[on whether his late release of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) was an attempt to ensure Oscar candidacy] It's a movie, not a worm on a hook.
[on Megan Ellison in the leaked Sony emails] ...this bipolar 28 year old lunatic who hasn't returned your call in three days...[2014]
[on Angelina Jolie and her "Cleopatra" project in the leaked Sony emails] I'm not remotely interested in presiding over a $180m ego bath that we both know will be the career-defining debacle for us both. I'm not destroying my career over a minimally talented spoiled brat who thought nothing of shoving this off her plate for eighteen months so she could go direct a movie. I have no desire to be making a movie with her, or anybody, that she runs and that we don't. She's a camp event and a celebrity and that's all and the last thing anybody needs is to make a giant bomb with her that any fool could see coming. We will end up being the laughing stock of our industry and we will deserve it, which is so clearly where this is headed that I cannot believe we are still wasting our time with it. [2014]

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