- Edward Saxon, an Oscar winner, is a graduate of the USC Peter Stark Producing Program. He is currently the endowed Chair of the program and a tenured professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He received his undergraduate degree at McGill University. Saxon produced the film THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, which swept Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards. His films have been nominated for over 20 Academy Awards and have won eight Oscars.
Mr. Saxon also produced PHILADELPHIA (which won two Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Tom Hanks). He produced ADAPTATION, nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actor winner Chris Cooper, and the Academy Award nominated documentary MANDELA: SON OF AFRICA, FATHER OF A NATION. Saxon has worked with stars including Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Charlize Theron, Nicolas Cage, Oprah Winfrey, Ethan Hawke, Michelle Pfeiffer and John Krasinski.
Most recently, Mr. Saxon has been a producer of RAY DONOVAN, the Emmy Award winning Showtime series, starring Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. He was also a producer on ENLIGHTENED, the acclaimed HBO comedy series, starring Laura Dern and Luke Wilson. He produced Sam Mendes' AWAY WE GO at Focus Features and OUR FAMILY WEDDING at Fox Searchlight which stars Forest Whitaker and America Ferrera. He has current television projects in development at multiple streamers.
Other past credits include include: Tom Hanks' directorial debut, THAT THING YOU DO, ULEE'S GOLD, DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS, BELOVED, FAST FOOD NATION, SOMETHING WILD, and MIAMI BLUES.
Saxon was a founding Advisory Board member of the Independent Film Channel, and has been a mentor for the Sundance Institute, Producer's Guild, and McGill University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of The Center for Body Computing at USC and speaks often on the importance of storytelling in business, healthcare and financial services. Mr. Saxon has extensive experience working in Haiti both as a documentary filmmaker and as an activist. Saxon is married to the artist, Kirsten Coyne. They have two daughters and live in Los Angeles.
- IMDb mini biography by: Edward Saxon Official Bio
- SpouseKirsten Coyne(? - present) (2 children)
- Graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1984)
- Brother of Rebecca Saxon.
- I really, really think the right heartfelt movie with good characters and just people talking has a niche in today's market of special effects. It's just become a tough place to hit. ...But it still happens...
- On The Silence of the Lambs (1991): Doing the '92 awards circuit was fun. We'd been to the Golden Globes and only won Best Actress, so we weren't going into the Oscars as the obvious favorite, but as the night went on -- Best Picture being last -- there were some very pleasant surprises!
- I'd read the book The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and it was very violent and Jonathan and I needed to go back to work so we were looking around. ...In a series of events Gene Hackman, who was attached, dropped the project and Orion turned it over to us, so we rolled over right into pre-production.
- I was fortunate right from the beginning of my career because Jonathan Demme was this great mentor, a partner and an example. He was a person of wide range and enthusiasms and a guy with a great deal of emotional intelligence.
- I got to know Ted Demme before he went to work at MTV. We had a lot of fun together and Ted gave me a small acting part in a movie he did called The Ref (1994)... He was a force. A guy that spread sunshine where ever he went and he was this amazing filmmaker... So it was very tragic...
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