Jeremy Kleiner


Jeremy Kleiner is an American film producer. Since 2013, he has served as the co-president of Plan B Entertainment with Dede Gardner. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for four consecutive years for producing 12 Years a Slave, Selma, The [Big Short |The Big Short], and Moonlight, winning for 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight. He earned his fifth nomination for Vice.

Early life

Kleiner was born into a Jewish family in either 1976 or 1977. He attended Harvard University, where he won the Detur Book Prize, the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, and was elected Phi Beta Kappa before graduating in 1998. The Harvard Crimson wrote of Kleiner's thesis that "in the world of Hoopes Prize winners, one thesis surpasses all others with 192 pages of pure writing," noting in 199 that Kleiner was "on the rise in L.A., on the way to becoming a big-shot," while his advisor Patrice Higonnet called Kleiner "one of the most gifted undergraduates I have seen in my thirty-odd years as an instructor in our university."

Career

Kleiner worked as a creative executive at The Donners' Company. In 2003, he joined Plan B Entertainment, working his way up from a creative executive to producer. Since 2013, he has served as the co-president of Plan B Entertainment with Dede Gardner. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for four consecutive years for producing 12 Years a Slave, Selma, The Big Short, and Moonlight, winning for 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight. He earned his fifth nomination for Vice.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

[Academy Awards]

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[Alliance of Women Film Journalists]

[American [Black Film Festival]]

Awards Circuit Community Awards

[Black Reel Awards]

[British Academy Film Awards]

[British Academy Television Awards]

CinEuphoria Awards

[Golden Raspberry Awards]

[Gotham Awards]

[Independent Spirit Awards]

Italian Online Movie Awards

Online Film & Television Association Awards

[Primetime Emmy Awards]

[Producers Guild of America Awards]