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Ted Hope(I)

  • Producer
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Additional Crew
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Locarno International Film Festival
Filmworker -- that's how Ted describes himself. He's a producer of over 70 films, studio executive on over 60, CEO of a start-up streamer, co-head of 3 production companies, executive director of a film society & festival, a Professor Of Practice at 2 universities, and founder of a post-production facility, 2 websites, 2 think tanks, & an app. He launched Amazon's foray into feature film production, leading them to 19 Oscar nominations and 5 wins. As a producer, his films have received 25 Oscar nominations, with 6 wins. Ted's memoir and newsletter Hope For Film, are both must reads. Ted helped launch the feature film careers of Ang Lee, Nicole Holofcener, Hal Hartley, Michel Gondry and many others. His most recent films include the first narrative from Oscar-winning documentary director, Roger Ross Williams, "Cassandro", as well as the documentary "Invisible Nation", directed and produced by Vanessa Hope.
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    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 7 wins & 8 nominations total

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    Known for

    Kevin Kline, Christina Ricci, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen, and Tobey Maguire in Ice Storm (1997)
    Ice Storm
    7.3
    • Producer
    • 1997
    Paul Giamatti in American Splendor (2003)
    American Splendor
    7.4
    • Producer
    • 2003
    Garçon d'honneur (1993)
    Garçon d'honneur
    7.6
    • Producer
    • 1993
    Human Nature (2001)
    Human Nature
    6.4
    • Producer
    • 2001

    Credits

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    Producer



    • Lone Wolf
      • producer (produced by)
      • Post-production
    • Paul Is Dead
      • producer
      • Pre-production



    • It Doesn't Matter (2024)
      It Doesn't Matter
      5.9
      • executive producer
      • 2024
    • The Black Sea (2024)
      The Black Sea
      7.3
      • executive producer
      • 2024
    • Invisible Nation (2023)
      Invisible Nation
      7.8
      • producer
      • 2023
    • Gael García Bernal in Cassandro (2023)
      Cassandro
      6.5
      • producer
      • 2023
    • Jerry Brown: The Disrupter (2022)
      Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
      7.3
      • executive producer
      • 2022
    • Nataliia Nagorna in Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2022)
      Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
      7.0
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Ben Affleck and Daniel Ranieri in Le Bar de la Tendresse (2021)
      Le Bar de la Tendresse
      6.7
      • producer
      • 2021
    • Jeffery Robinson in Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (2021)
      Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
      7.7
      • executive producer
      • 2021
    • Francesco (2020)
      Francesco
      5.9
      • executive producer
      • 2020
    • Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson, and Haley Bennett in A Kind of Murder (2016)
      A Kind of Murder
      5.3
      • producer (produced by)
      • 2016
    • China Connection: Joan (2015)
      China Connection: Joan
      Short
      • producer
      • 2015
    • Jon Huntsman, Gracie Mei Huntsman, and Guangcheng Chen in All Eyes and Ears (2015)
      All Eyes and Ears
      7.1
      • producer
      • 2015
    • China Connection: Jerry (2014)
      China Connection: Jerry
      Short
      • producer
      • 2014
    • China in Three Words (2013)
      China in Three Words
      8.0
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2013
    • Dree Hemingway and Boonee in Starlet (2012)
      Starlet
      7.0
      • executive producer
      • 2012

    Second Unit or Assistant Director



    • Blowback
      7.5
      • assistant director
      • 1991
    • Monsters (1988)
      Monsters
      7.3
      TV Series
      • assistant director
      • 1990–1991
    • Trust me (1990)
      Trust me
      7.4
      • first assistant director
      • 1990
    • Patty Mullen in Frankenhooker (1990)
      Frankenhooker
      6.2
      • first assistant director
      • 1990
    • Frère de sang 2 (1990)
      Frère de sang 2
      5.4
      • assistant director
      • 1990
    • Robert John Burke and Adrienne Shelly in L'incroyable vérité (1989)
      L'incroyable vérité
      7.2
      • first assistant director
      • 1989

    Additional Crew



    • Jeffery Robinson in Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (2021)
      Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
      7.7
      • executive producer
      • 2021
    • Le tigre (1988)
      Le tigre
      4.7
      • assistant to producer
      • 1988
    • Football Kid (1986)
      Football Kid
      5.3
      • key production assistant
      • 1986
    • Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb in Sid & Nancy (1986)
      Sid & Nancy
      7.0
      • production assistant
      • 1986

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    Personal details

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    • Official sites
      • HammerToNails website
      • Hope For Film blog
    • Born
      • 1962
    • Spouse
      • Vanessa HopeJanuary 6, 2009 - present
    • Other works
      Book by same person and with another person (Anthony Kaufman): "Hope for Film: A Producer's Journey Across the Revolutions of Indie Film and Global Streaming". New York:Counterpoint; Reprint edition. ISBN-10: 1640093508; ISBN-13: 978-1640093508

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      Partner in Good Machine, an indie-film company, with screenwriter friend James Schamus and David Linde. Bought by Universal Pictures and merged into a new division of the studio called Focus, June 2002.

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