Biography

Adam Somner was born on March 21, 1967 in London, England, UK. He was an assistant director and producer, known for One Battle After Another (2025), Licorice Pizza (2021) and War Horse (2011). He was married to Carmen Ruiz de Huidobro. He died on November 27, 2024 in Studio City, California, USA.

Frequently worked with Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott and Paul Thomas Anderson.

He worked on different functions on 16 films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Gladiator (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), Munich (2005), There Will Be Blood (2007), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Bridge of Spies (2015), The Revenant (2015), The Post (2017), Phantom Thread (2017), Ford v Ferrari (2019), Licorice Pizza (2021), West Side Story (2021) and Adam Somner. OF those, Gladiator (2000) and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) are winners in the category.

Has a brother Mark.

Has two children, Olivia and Bosco.

Somner earned an Oscar nomination for his work on 2021's Licorice Pizza and received a DGA Award for outstanding directorial achievement in a feature for 2015's The Revenant.