Kevin Feige


Kevin Feige is an American film and television producer. He has been the president of Marvel Studios and the primary producer of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise since 2007. The films he has produced have a combined worldwide box office gross of over, making him the highest grossing producer of all time, with Avengers: Endgame becoming the highest-grossing film at the time of its release.
Feige is a member of the Producers Guild of America. In 2018, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Black Panther, the first superhero film to receive that honor and the first film in the MCU to win an Academy Award. In October 2019, he became the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment.

Early life

Feige was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Westfield, New Jersey, the son of Maralyn and Tim Feige. He moved to New Jersey at the age of three and lived there until the age of eighteen, when he graduated from Westfield High School. His maternal grandfather, Robert E. Short, was a television producer in the 1950s, working on soap operas including The Guiding Light and As the World Turns.
After high school, Feige attended the University of Southern California, the alma mater of his favorite directors: George Lucas, Ron Howard and Robert Zemeckis. His first five applications to the USC School of Cinematic Arts were rejected, but he was accepted on the sixth, studying in their Division of Film & Television Production. He graduated in 1995 with a degree in film, receiving an honorary doctorate in 2023.

Career

His early work includes being assistant to executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner on the films Volcano and You've Got Mail. On the first X-Men film, released in 2000, Donner made Feige an associate producer due to his knowledge of the Marvel Universe. Impressing Avi Arad, Feige was hired to work as a producer at Marvel Studios and as Arad's second-in-command that same year. In the mid-2000s, Feige realized that although the characters Spider-Man, Blade, and the X-Men had been respectively licensed to the film companies Sony Pictures, New Line Cinema, and 20th Century Fox, Marvel still owned the film rights to the core members of the Avengers. He envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had done with their comic books in the early 1960s. Feige was named the president of production at Marvel Studios in March 2007, replacing the studio's president Michael Helfant. Following the successful opening weekend of Marvel's film Iron Man in May 2008, Feige was promoted to president of Marvel Studios.
Feige received the Motion Picture Showman of the Year award at the International Cinematographers Guild's Publicists Guild Awards on February 22, 2013. For his work on Black Panther, Feige received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Producers Guild of America Award. Feige was awarded the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures by the Producers Guild of America in 2019. In September 2019, it was reported that Feige was developing a Star Wars film for Lucasfilm, which was no longer in development by March 2023. In October 2019, Feige, in addition to being president of Marvel Studios, was named chief creative officer for Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Comics, Marvel Television, and Marvel Animation.
In November 2025, Feige gave an endowment to his alma mater to establish the Kevin Feige Division of Film & Television Production at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. USC called the endowment "transformational" and said it would "provide a lasting source of funding for faculty, students and programmatic support" of the Feige Division.

Personal life

Feige married Caitlin, a cardiothoracic nurse, around 2007. They have two children: a daughter Ella born in 2009, and a son Erik born in 2012.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleStatus
2008Iron Man
2008The Incredible Hulk
2010Iron Man 2
2011Thor
2011Captain America: The First Avenger
2012The Avengers
2013Iron Man 3
2013Thor: The Dark World
2014Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014Guardians of the Galaxy
2015Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015Ant-Man
2016Captain America: Civil War
2016Doctor Strange
2017Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2017Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017Thor: Ragnarok
2018Black Panther
2018Avengers: Infinity War
2018Ant-Man and the Wasp
2019Captain Marvel
2019Avengers: Endgame
2019Spider-Man: Far From Home
2021Black Widow
2021Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021Eternals
2021Spider-Man: No Way Home
2022Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022Thor: Love and Thunder
2022Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2023Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2023The Marvels
2024Deadpool & Wolverine
2025Captain America: Brave New World
2025Thunderbolts*
2025The Fantastic Four: First Steps
2026Post-production
2026Post-production

YearTitleRole
1997VolcanoProduction assistant
1998You've Got MailProduction assistant
2000X-MenAssociate producer
2002Spider-ManAssociate producer
2003DaredevilCo-producer
2003X2Co-producer
2003HulkExecutive producer
2004The PunisherExecutive producer
2004Spider-Man 2Executive producer
2005ElektraCo-producer
2005Man-ThingExecutive producer
2005Fantastic FourExecutive producer
2006X-Men: The Last StandExecutive producer
2007Spider-Man 3Executive producer
2007Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver SurferExecutive producer
2008Next Avengers: Heroes of TomorrowExecutive producer
2008Punisher: War ZoneExecutive producer
2009Hulk VersusExecutive producer
2011Thor: Tales of AsgardExecutive producer
2012The Amazing Spider-ManExecutive producer

Television

Shorts

Awards and nominations

AwardYearNominated workCategoryResult
Academy Awards2019Black PantherBest PictureNomitated
Britannia Awards2018Worldwide Contribution to EntertainmentWon
Children's and Family Emmy Awards2023The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday SpecialOutstanding Fiction SpecialWon
Children's and Family Emmy Awards2023I Am GrootOutstanding Short Form ProgramWon
Children's and Family Emmy Awards2025I Am GrootOutstanding Short Form Animated ProgramNomitated
Inkpot Award2017Inkpot AwardWon
Critics' Choice Television Awards2022What If...?Best Animated SeriesWon
Critics' Choice Television Awards2022WandaVisionBest Movie/MiniseriesNomitated
Critics' Choice Television Awards2024LokiBest Drama SeriesNomitated
Golden Globe Awards2019Black PantherBest Motion Picture – DramaNomitated
Gotham TV Awards2024X-Men '97Breakthrough Drama SeriesNomitated
Grammy Awards2024Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Vol. 3Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual MediaNomitated
Hollywood Film Awards2019Avengers: EndgameHollywood Blockbuster AwardWon
Primetime Emmy Awards2021WandaVisionOutstanding Limited or Anthology SeriesNomitated
Primetime Emmy Awards2022What If...?Outstanding Animated ProgramNomitated
Primetime Emmy Awards2024X-Men '97Outstanding Animated ProgramNomitated
Producers Guild of America Awards2019David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion PicturesWon
Producers Guild of America Awards2019Black PantherOutstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion PicturesNomitated
Producers Guild of America Awards2022WandaVisionOutstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series TelevisionNomitated
Producers Guild of America Awards2023Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverOutstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion PicturesNomitated
Saturn Awards2019Stan Lee World Builder AwardWon

In July 2024, Feige received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.