Award-winning producer Brian Grazer has been making movies and television programs for more than twenty five years. As both a writer and a producer, he has been nominated for three Academy Awards®, and in 2002 he won the Best Picture Oscar® for A Beautiful Mind. In addition to winning three other Academy Awards®, A Beautiful Mind won four Golden Globe® Awards (including Best Motion Picture Drama) and earned Grazer the first annual Awareness Award from the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign.

Over the years, Grazer's films and TV shows have been nominated for a total of 52 Oscars® and 102 Emmys®. At the same time, his movies have generated more than $13.5 billion in worldwide theatrical, music and video grosses. Reflecting this combination of commercial and artistic achievement, the Producers Guild of America honored Grazer with the David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

His accomplishments have also been recognized by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which in 1998 added Grazer to the short list of producers with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2003, ShoWest celebrated Grazer's success by honoring him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. On November 14, 2005, Grazer was honored in Los Angeles by the Fulfillment Fund. In May 2007, Grazer was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. On January 24, 2009, Grazer, along with his partner, Ron Howard, was honored with a Milestone Award by the Producers Guild of America.

Grazer's other films include Apollo 13, which earned him the Producers Guild's Darryl F. Zanuck Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award and an Academy Award® nomination for Best Picture, Splash, which he co-wrote and produced and received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and the Clint Eastwood-directed drama Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie.

Grazer also produced the film adaptation of Peter Morgan's critically acclaimed play Frost/Nixon, directed by Ron Howard. The film, which was released in December 2008, was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, and was also nominated for The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures.

Grazer's other film credits include the big screen adaptation of the international bestseller The Da Vinci Code, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Oscar®-winner Ron Howard, as well as its follow-up, Angels & Demons; the tense drama Inside Man, directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster; the comedy Fun with Dick and Jane, starring Jim Carrey; Flightplan; Cinderella Man; the Sundance acclaimed documentary Inside Deep Throat; Friday Night Lights; 8 Mile; Blue Crush; Intolerable Cruelty; Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas; The Nutty Professor; Liar, Liar; Ransom; My Girl; Backdraft; Kindergarten Cop; Parenthood; Clean and Sober and Spies Like Us.

Grazer's television productions include the multiple award winning 24, Arrested Development, an Emmy® Award winner for Best Comedy, Miss Match; Treasure Hunters; Friday Night Lights; Shark; Felicity; and Sports Night; as well as From the Earth to the Moon, for which he won the Emmy® for Outstanding Mini-Series.

Grazer began his career as a producer developing television projects. It was while he was executive-producing TV pilots for Paramount Pictures in the early 1980s that Grazer first met his longtime friend and business partner, Ron Howard. Their collaboration began in 1985 with the hit comedies Night Shift and Splash, and in 1986 the two founded Imagine Entertainment, which they continue to run together as co-chairmen.