Douglas Wick Biography

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DOUGLAS WICK's (Producer) movies have earned more than $1.5 billion at the box office, 20 Academy Award nominations and seven Oscars.

In 2000, Wick produced Gladiator, which received 12 Academy Award nominations and won five Oscars, including Best Picture for Wick. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe, this epic became a cinematic phenomenon that grossed over $450 million worldwide. Gladiator also won two Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture, four BAFTA awards-including Best Picture-AFI's Movie of the Year, the MTV Movie Award for Best Movie, and brought Wick the Producers Guild's Golden Laurel Motion Picture of the Year Award.

In 2001, Wick expanded his company, Red Wagon Entertainment, to bring in the dynamic former vice chairman of Sony's Columbia Tri-Star Motion Picture Group, Lucy Fisher. Their first picture in this new partnership was the sequel to the Wick-produced 1999 blockbuster Stuart Little starring Academy Award winner Geena Davis and featuring the voices of Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane. This film earned over $300 million worldwide and spawned the successful sequel Stuart Little 2, reuniting all the original cast under director Rob Minkoff.

Wick's international espionage thriller Spy Game opened in 2001, pairing movie icons Robert Redford and Brad Pitt under director Tony Scott. Prior to this, Wick produced the Paul Verhoeven sci-fi thriller Hollow Man which introduced dazzling, cutting-edge visual effects depicting an invisible villain. Wick's critically acclaimed feature Girl, Interrupted won Angelina Jolie both an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe for Breakthrough Performance.

In 2004, Fisher and Wick went into production on three high-profile movies. In addition to Jarhead, they produced Bewitched starring Oscar winner Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell for director Nora Ephron, as well as the highly anticipated Memoirs of a Geisha directed by Academy Award nominee (Chicago) Rob Marshall. Upcoming projects include The Legend of the Lone Ranger and a remake of the musical Bye Bye Birdie.

Wick's first-ever solo producing effort came with Working Girl, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver. It garnered six Academy Award nominations, one Oscar win and five Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture Comedy. Nichols and Wick re-teamed a few years later to produce The Craft, the original teenage witch sensation, directed by Andy Fleming and starring Neve Campbell.

After graduating cum laude from Yale University, Wick began his career as a production assistant for filmmaker Alan Pakula. He earned his first credit as associate producer on Starting Over.

Wick was a co-chair of Prop 71, the successful stem cell initiative in California. He is on the board of the Alliance of Stem Cell Research and is co-founder of CuresNow, an organization that promotes regenerative medicine and stem cell research. In addition, he formerly served on the board of trustees for the Center for Early Education in Los Angeles, as well as the board of directors for the Producers Guild of America. He has been awarded the Saturn Award, the Los Angeles Father of the Year Award, Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Producer of the Year, the Motion Picture Club's Producer of the Year and the 2002 NATO ShoWest Producer of the Year.

Wick is married to his Red Wagon partner, Lucy Fisher. They live in Los Angeles with their three daughters.