Peter Gruber on Producers’ Film Credits
March 5th, 2006 by Andre Soares
In The New York Times producer Peter Gruber discusses producers’ film credits and his own experiences making the Academy Award-nominated 1978 drama Midnight Express: "Around midnight tonight, after what will undoubtedly be an excruciatingly long Oscar kudo-cast, the Academy Award for best picture will finally be announced. The expectant faces of all the producers of the five nominated films will be pasted on plasma screens, computers and cellphones around the world, but only one movie will send its producers to the stage to accept that tall gold statue that is the object of so much affection.
"If the clarion call comes "And the winner is …Crash," formidable forces will keep Bob Yari, one of six people listed in the film’s opening credits as a producer, off that stage. Only two of the listed producers — Paul Haggis, who is also the director and co-writer, and Cathy Schulman — will be eligible for a kiss from the presenter and a statue of their own."
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