Mark Gordon has produced and financed over 60 motion pictures and television programs. The theatrical box office revenue from his movies has exceeded $3 billion.
The Mark Gordon Company's current film slate includes Lasse Hallström's recently released The Hoax, starring Richard Gere; and Roland Emmerich's 10,000 B.C.
Mr. Gordon also continues to executive-produce two of network television's top-rated series, Criminal Minds and Grey's Anatomy. The latter was honored earlier this year with the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series [Drama]. Also this year, the Company's new cable series Army Wives debuts.
As producer, among the honors he has received are an Academy Award nomination, a Golden Globe Award, and the Producers Guild of America's top prize, the [Darryl F. Zanuck] Producer of the Year Award, Theatrical Motion Pictures. These accolades all came for Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. The classic film also won the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Chicago Film Critics Association awards for Best Picture, among many other awards worldwide.
As executive producer of Joseph Sargent's Warm Springs, Mr. Gordon won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Made-for-Television Movie. He is also a Daytime Emmy Award winner, for Best Children's Program, for The War Between the Classes (directed by Michael Toshiyuki Uno); and a BAFTA Award winner, in the children's entertainment category, for Paulie (directed by John Roberts).
His other feature films as producer include such smashes as Jan de Bont's Speed; John Woo's Broken Arrow; and Roland Emmerich's The Patriot and The Day After Tomorrow.
As executive producer and/or financier, Mr. Gordon's credits include such award-winning films as Mike Nichols' Primary Colors; Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan; Milos Forman's Man on the Moon; and Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys.
His other credits include executive-producing Bruce Beresford's telefilm And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself; and producing and directing the Holocaust documentary Nothing But Sun, for which he was again a Daytime Emmy Award nominee.
A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (where he studied film) Mr. Gordon serves on the boards of the Producers Guild of America, the Virginia Film Festival, and Teach for America (in Los Angeles).
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