American film studio executives

American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)

Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.

American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and he is the second highest-grossing film director of all time. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Grammy Award, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is one of the world's wealthiest celebrities. He is one of 22 people to achieve EGOT status.

American basketball player and entrepreneur (born 1959)

American actress (1911–1989)

American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)

Harvey Weinstein is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. In 1979, Weinstein and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989); The Crying Game (1992); Pulp Fiction (1994); Heavenly Creatures (1994); Flirting with Disaster (1996); and Shakespeare in Love (1998). Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love and also won seven Tony Awards for plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded the Weinstein Company (TWC), a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.

Polish-American film producer (1882–1974)

American producer and studio executive (born 1973)

American film producer (1902–1965)

James Francis Gunn Jr. is an American filmmaker. He began his career as a screenwriter in the mid-1990s, starting at Troma Entertainment with Tromeo and Juliet (1996). He then began working as a director, starting with the horror-comedy film Slither (2006), and moving to the superhero genre with Super (2010), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), The Suicide Squad (2021), and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023).

American film producer (1899-1936)

American film producer (1902–1979)

American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)

Canadian-American film producer (1884–1957)

American novelist (1872–1939)

American film producer (born 1953)

American animator and film director

American businessman and producer, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company (1893–1971)

American film producer and art collector (1898–1986)

American film director (born 1971)

Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer (1917-1986)

Hungarian-American film producer (1873–1976)

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (1917–2015)

American film executive (1892–1978)

American film producer and media proprietor (born 1950)

longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company (1930-2009)

American filmmaker (1892–1992)

American actor, writer, film director, and film producer (1880–1971)

American businessman

American film producer (1875–1941)

American film producer (born 1969)

German-American film producer (1867–1939)

American film studio executive (1891-1958)

British and American producer and manager

American film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures (1880–1958)

American film producer and business executive (born 1958)

Israeli–American media proprietor, investor

American film producer and former chairman and CEO of United Artists (1937–2015)

American business executive

American film studio executive (1878-1961)

American film producer (1934–2012)

American film producer from California

American film producer

American actor (1901-1979)

American film studio executive (1881-1958)

American writer and director (1884-1951)

American film executive (born 1954)

David Ferris Ellison is an American film producer, media proprietor, and former actor serving as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Paramount Skydance since August 2025. He founded the film and television production company Skydance Media in 2006 and later merged it with the media company Paramount Global, forming Paramount Skydance in 2025. He is the son of Oracle Corporation co-founder Larry Ellison.

American film producer

American businessman

American film producer (1884–1949)

American film executive, producer and director

American film studio executive (1887-1927)

American film, television and executive producer (born 1936)

American film studio executive and actress

American actor and film director (born 1939)

American film pioneer and business magnate (1870–1927)

British film producer (born 1941)