Producers

Producers have executive authority over a film project’s four phases: development, pre-production, production, and post-production and marketing. That means they know everything that goes on, at every level. Financing a film may include more suspense and risk than the film itself, and assembling a film project often takes years. Producers in these rankings worked on at least two top-grossing films since 2002.

Rank Producer Score Films With smoking With brands
1 Amy Pascal 1300 7 3 3
2 Eric Fellner 1132 10 3 1
Tim Bevan 1132 10 3 1
3 Matt Tolmach 905 4 3 3
4 Avi Arad 828 3 2 3
5 Hutch Parker 799 3 1 3
6 Steven Spielberg 528 5 4 0
7 Letty Aronson 525 2 2 2
Edward Walson 525 2 2 2
8 Kristie Macosko Krieger 521 4 4 0
9 Graham King 515 3 2 0
10 Todd Black 310 4 2 0
11 Roger Birnbaum 309 2 2 0
12 Marc Platt 232 5 2 0
13 Ram Bergman 210 3 2 1
14 Tobey Maguire 195 2 2 0
15 Jenno Topping 182 8 3 0
16 Jason Blum 175 17 6 0
17 Robert Zemeckis 162 2 2 0
Steve Starkey 162 2 2 0
Jack Rapke 162 2 2 0
18 Danny Boyle 156 2 1 3
19 Chris Cowles 150 2 1 0
Mark Ciardi 150 2 1 0
20 Harald Kloser 149 2 1 0
Roland Emmerich 149 2 1 0
21 Fred Bernstein 148 2 1 0
22 Brian Grazer 145 6 5 0
23 Ron Howard 143 4 3 0
24 Lorenzo di Bonaventura 125 8 2 0
25 Marc Turtletaub 119 3 3 1
Peter Saraf 119 3 3 1
26 Anthony Bregman 117 4 2 0
27 Karan Johar 112 4 3 0
David Livingstone 112 2 1 0
Hiroo Johar 112 3 3 0
Apoorva Mehta 112 4 3 0
28 Don Murphy 110 2 1 0
Tom DeSanto 110 2 1 0
29 Jimmy Miller 101 2 2 0
Jeremy Dawson 101 2 2 0
30 Brian Kavanaugh-Jones 99 4 2 0
31 Tracey Seaward 97 2 2 0
32 Ben Odell 92 4 3 2
33 Robert Teitel 91 3 3 0
David Heyman 91 6 3 0
34 Clayton Townsend 88 2 2 0
Ari Arad 88 2 1 1
35 Adam McKay 86 3 2 0
Will Ferrell 86 3 2 0
36 Matthew Vaughn 84 2 1 0
37 Gil Netter 83 3 2 0
38 Simon Kinberg 82 7 2 0
Charles Roven 82 7 2 1
39 Jeffrey Soros 81 2 2 1
40 Susan Mullen 78 2 2 0
41 Fred Berger 76 3 2 0
42 Wyck Godfrey 75 9 3 0
Marty Bowen 75 9 3 0
43 Arnon Milchan 72 3 1 1
44 David Oyelowo 71 2 2 0
Lionel Wigram 71 5 2 0
Dede Gardner 71 2 1 0
Jeremy Kleiner 71 2 1 0
45 Isaac Klausner 68 2 2 0
Timur Bekmambetov 68 2 2 0
46 Neal H. Moritz 66 10 2 0
Peter Chernin 66 7 1 0
47 James Gray 64 2 1 0
Anthony Katagas 64 3 1 0
48 Ori Marmur 58 2 1 0
49 Steve Kloves 56 2 1 0
J.K. Rowling 56 2 1 0
Lauren Shuler Donner 56 2 1 0
50 Alex Garcia 55 4 2 0
51 Basil Iwanyk 54 4 1 0
52 Deborah Snyder 53 3 1 0
53 Sarah Green 52 2 1 0
54 Richard Suckle 50 2 1 0
Gauri Khan 50 4 2 0
Mark Canton 50 3 2 0
55 George Tillman, Jr. 47 2 2 0
56 Dan Lin 44 5 1 0
Scott Rudin 44 4 4 0
Jonathan Eirich 44 2 1 0
57 Dan Cohen 43 2 1 0
Shawn Levy 43 4 1 0
58 Ice Cube 41 2 1 0
Sidney Kimmel 41 2 2 0
59 Gurinder Chadha 40 2 2 0
Ralph Winter 40 2 2 0
60 Gary Lucchesi 36 5 1 0
Tom Rosenberg 36 5 1 0
61 Aditya Chopra 35 5 4 0
David M. Thompson 35 2 2 0
62 Michael London 34 2 2 0
Janice Williams 34 2 2 0
63 Aaron Ryder 32 2 1 0
Thomas Tull 32 7 1 0
Jon Jashni 32 6 1 0
Mary Parent 32 8 1 0
64 Mike Medavoy 31 2 2 0
65 Laurie MacDonald 30 4 2 0
Walter F. Parkes 30 4 2 0
Genki Kawamura 30 2 1 0
66 Denzel Washington 29 2 1 0
Mickey Liddell 29 4 1 1
Jeremy Steckler 29 2 2 0
Dawn Ostroff 29 2 2 0
Emile Sherman 29 2 2 0
Iain Canning 29 2 2 0
Pete Shilaimon 29 4 1 1
Luc Besson 29 3 2 0
67 Rebel Wilson 28 2 1 0
Kris Thykier 28 2 2 0
Tim Moore 28 2 1 0
Clint Eastwood 28 2 1 0
68 Alison Owen 27 2 1 0
69 Pamela Koffler 26 2 2 0
Ridley Scott 26 4 1 0
Michael Schaefer 26 2 1 0
Christine Vachon 26 2 2 0
Mark Gordon 26 2 1 0
Kenneth Branagh 26 2 1 0
70 Kevin Loader 25 2 2 0
71 David A. R. White 24 4 1 0
Michael Scott 24 4 1 0
72 Frank Marshall 23 6 0 0
Joe Roth 23 7 2 0
Donna Gigliotti 23 2 1 0
73 Eugenio Derbez 22 2 1 0
74 David Ready 20 2 1 0
75 Will Areu 19 3 3 0
Ozzie Areu 19 3 3 0
76 David Ellison 18 5 3 0
Matthew Kaplan 18 3 1 0
77 James D. Stern 17 2 2 0
78 Courtney Solomon 16 2 1 0
79 Bill Holderman 15 2 1 0
John Davis 15 4 1 0
Marc Bienstock 15 4 2 0
Steve Clark-Hall 15 2 1 0
M. Night Shyamalan 15 3 2 0
80 Vin Diesel 14 3 1 0
Mark Johnson 14 2 1 0
Jennifer Monroe 14 2 1 1
Jeff Kirschenbaum 14 2 1 0
81 Pouya Shahbazian 13 3 1 0
Akiva Goldsman 13 2 1 0
Chris Henchy 13 3 2 0
82 Tyler Perry 12 2 2 0
Brittany Lefebvre 12 2 1 0
Brittany Yost 12 2 0 0
Elizabeth Hatcher-Travis 12 3 1 0
Alysoun Wolfe 12 2 1 0
Dana Goldberg 12 3 2 0
83 David Winkler 11 2 2 0
Sylvester Stallone 11 2 2 0
Irwin Winkler 11 2 2 0
William Chartoff 11 2 2 0
84 Darren Moorman 10 2 1 0
Mark E. Swinton 10 2 2 0
85 Damian Jones 9 2 1 0
John Morris 9 4 2 0
86 Donald De Line 8 2 1 0
J.J. Abrams 8 6 2 0
Kevin Feige 8 16 1 1
Jeff Skoll 8 2 1 0
Tom Cruise 8 4 2 0
87 Bryan Burk 7 3 1 0
88 Kevin Misher 6 2 1 0
John Rickard 6 3 1 0
Sean Anders 6 2 1 0
Zack Schiller 6 2 1 0
89 Nancy Meyers 5 2 1 0
Gavin Polone 5 3 1 0
90 Kevin Downes 3 4 1 0
Don Granger 3 3 2 0
Sam Raimi 3 2 0 0
Morgan Neville 3 2 2 0
Sanjay Leela Bhansali 3 2 1 0
91 Jerry Bruckheimer 2 2 1 0
Deepak Nayar 2 2 1 0
Christopher McQuarrie 2 3 1 0
Farhan Akhtar 2 2 1 0
Ritesh Sidhwani 2 2 1 0
92 Travis Knight 1 2 1 0
Arianne Sutner 1 2 1 0
93 Peter Safran 0 5 0 0
Richard S. Wright 0 2 0 0
Phil Lord 0 4 0 0
Duncan Henderson 0 3 0 0
James Lopez 0 3 0 0
Mark Lane 0 2 0 0
Simon Emanuel 0 2 0 0
Michael Barnathan 0 2 0 0
Theresa Park 0 2 0 0
Janet Healy 0 7 0 0
Shobu Yarlagadda 0 2 0 0
Clark Spencer 0 2 0 0
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein 0 2 0 0
Karen Rosenfelt 0 2 0 0
David Womack 0 2 0 0
DeVon Franklin 0 2 0 0
Harold Cronk 0 2 0 0
John Cohen 0 2 0 0
Hiram Garcia 0 4 0 0
Elizabeth Cantillon 0 2 0 0
Beau Flynn 0 3 0 0
Mary Viola 0 2 0 0
Allison Shearmur 0 5 0 0
Belén Atienza 0 2 0 0
Andrew Form 0 4 0 0
James Harris 0 2 0 0
Michael Bay 0 6 0 0
Lucy Fisher 0 2 0 0
David Hoberman 0 2 0 0
Graham Broadbent 0 2 0 0
Prasad Devineni 0 2 0 0
Stephen Davis 0 3 0 0
Sean Daniel 0 3 0 0
Alex Saks 0 2 0 0
Wes Ball 0 2 0 0
Mark Radcliffe 0 2 0 0
Cale Boyter 0 2 0 0
Nina Jacobson 0 3 0 0
Laurence Mark 0 2 0 0
Alastair Fothergill 0 2 0 0
Stephen Kendrick 0 2 0 0
Elizabeth Banks 0 3 0 0
William Packer 0 5 0 0
James Wan 0 4 0 0
David Barron 0 2 0 0
Alexis Vonarb 0 2 0 0
Peter Del Vecho 0 2 0 0
Tom Hanks 0 2 0 0
Brigham Taylor 0 2 0 0
Andrew Erwin 0 2 0 0
Christopher Miller 0 4 0 0
Christopher Meledandri 0 7 0 0
Mark Vahradian 0 2 0 0
Chris Columbus 0 2 0 0
Nicholas Sparks 0 2 0 0
Michelle Murdocca 0 2 0 0
Mireille Soria 0 2 0 0
Suzanne Buirgy 0 2 0 0
Chris Morgan 0 4 0 0
Dan Levine 0 2 0 0
Joe Hartwick, Jr. 0 2 0 0
Dylan Clark 0 2 0 0
Jonas Rivera 0 2 0 0
Michael J. Travers 0 2 0 0
Kathleen Kennedy 0 5 0 0
Joseph McG 0 2 0 0
Lori Forte 0 2 0 0
Dimitri Rassam 0 2 0 0
Dwayne Johnson 0 3 0 0
Max Handelman 0 3 0 0
Patrick Crowley 0 3 0 0
Michael Fottrell 0 2 0 0
Dean Devlin 0 2 0 0
Bradley Fuller 0 4 0 0
Roy Lee 0 7 0 0
Andrew Rona 0 2 0 0
Peter Czernin 0 2 0 0
Jim Wedaa 0 2 0 0
Alex Kurtzman 0 2 0 0
Douglas Wick 0 2 0 0
Brian Oliver 0 3 0 0
Tyler Thompson 0 2 0 0
Daryl C. Lefever 0 2 0 0
Todd Lieberman 0 2 0 0
Brian Goldner 0 4 0 0
Guillermo del Toro 0 2 0 0
Eddie Gamarra 0 2 0 0
Russell Wolfe 0 2 0 0
Brad Simpson 0 2 0 0
Deborah Forte 0 3 0 0
Lee Stollman 0 2 0 0
James Vanderbilt 0 2 0 0
Gary Goetzman 0 4 0 0
Gregory Goodman 0 2 0 0
David Linde 0 2 0 0
David S. Goyer 0 2 0 0
Kristin Burr 0 2 0 0
Roberto Orci 0 2 0 0
Brad Lewis 0 2 0 0
Todd Garner 0 3 0 0
Matt Berenson 0 2 0 0
Elysa Koplovitz Dutton 0 2 0 0
Rita Wilson 0 2 0 0
Jon Favreau 0 2 0 0
Youngki Lee 0 2 0 0
T.S. Nowlin 0 2 0 0
Roy Conli 0 2 0 0
Aaron Burns 0 2 0 0
Oren Peli 0 2 0 0
Adam Sandler 0 2 0 0
Aton Soumache 0 2 0 0
Paul Brooks 0 2 0 0
James Whitaker 0 2 0 0