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Dede Gardner

Highest Rated: 100% Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) (2021)

Lowest Rated: 32% Running With Scissors (2006)

Birthday: Oct 16, 1967

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Best known as the Oscar-winning producer of "12 Years a Slave" (2013) and "Moonlight" (2016), Dede Gardner was responsible for putting together critically acclaimed films as president of Plan B Entertainment. Although Plan B Entertainment was originally founded by Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, and Brad Grey in 2002, Gardner was brought in when the founding trio split ways in 2006. Her first film under Plan B Entertainment was adapting Augusten Burroughs' memoir "Running with Scissors" into a film. Although it featured an impressive cast that included Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin and Gwyneth Paltrow, "Running with Scissors" (2006) was poorly received by critics. However, Gardner followed it up with a string of critically-acclaimed films that established Plan B Entertainment a top quality production company. She was nominated for Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards for the war drama "A Mighty Heart" (2007) and in the following year she received her first Academy Award Best Picture nomination for Terence Malick's experimental drama "Tree of Life" (2008), which also starred Brad Pitt. Gardner continued to work with Pitt in her next three productions, all film adaptations of previous literary work. They filmed the neo-noir crime film "Killing Them Softly" (2012), followed by the summer blockbuster "World War Z" (2013), the zombie-infested horror flick based on the graphic novel of the same name. Later that year, Gardner and Pitt brought the historical drama "12 Years a Slave" (2013) to the big screen to near universal acclaim. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as an free African-American man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, "12 Years a Slave" received numerous awards, including Gardner's first Oscar for Best Picture. Gardner followed that triumph with Ava DuVernay's civil rights drama "Selma" (2014), Adam McKay's comedy-drama about the 2008 financial meltdown "The Big Short" (2015) and supernatural TV drama "The OA (Netflix 2016). Gardner won her second Best Picture Oscar as producer of Barry Jenkins' drama "Moonlight" (2016).

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Highest rated movies

100% Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Watchlist
99% 86% Selma Watchlist 98% 79% Moonlight Watchlist 98% 87% Minari Watchlist 95% 68% If Beale Street Could Talk Watchlist 95% 90% 12 Years a Slave Watchlist
94% 88% The Normal Heart
Watchlist
93% 84% The Last Black Man in San Francisco Watchlist 90% 80% Women Talking Watchlist 90% 47% Kajillionaire Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet F1 Producer - 2025
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mickey 17 Producer - 2025
85% No Score Yet Nickel Boys Producer - 2024
67% 50% Wolfs Producer - 2024
76% 79% Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Producer $292.1M 2024
44% 91% Bob Marley: One Love Producer $96.8M 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet World War Z 2 Producer - 2024
72% 50% Landscape with Invisible Hand Producer $190.2K 2023
90% 80% Women Talking Producer $5.4M 2022
88% 91% She Said Producer $5.8M 2022
42% 36% Blonde Producer - 2022
80% 52% Father of the Bride Producer - 2022
100% No Score Yet Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) Executive Producer - 2021
98% 87% Minari Producer $700.0K 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tripping with Nils Frahm Executive Producer - 2020
90% 47% Kajillionaire Producer $524.0K 2020
40% 61% Irresistible Producer - 2020
71% 84% The King Producer - 2019
83% 40% Ad Astra Producer $50.2M 2019
93% 84% The Last Black Man in San Francisco Producer $4.5M 2019
95% 68% If Beale Street Could Talk Producer $14.9M 2018
64% 61% Vice Producer $47.8M 2018
68% 79% Beautiful Boy Producer $7.6M 2018
79% 55% Brad's Status Producer $2.1M 2017
87% 81% Okja Producer - 2017
48% 34% War Machine Producer - 2017
86% 58% The Lost City of Z Producer $8.6M 2016
98% 79% Moonlight Producer $27.9M 2016
68% 45% Voyage of Time: Life's Journey Producer - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Voyage of Time Producer - 2016
No Score Yet 92% Hitting the Apex Executive Producer - 2015
89% 88% The Big Short Producer $70.2M 2015
45% 38% True Story Producer $4.7M 2015
82% 61% Nightingale Executive Producer - 2014
99% 86% Selma Producer $52.1M 2014
94% 88% The Normal Heart Executive Producer - 2014
95% 90% 12 Years a Slave Producer $56.7M 2013
67% 72% World War Z Producer $202.4M 2013
74% 44% Killing Them Softly Producer $14.9M 2012
85% 60% The Tree of Life Producer $13.3M 2011
35% 42% Eat Pray Love Producer $80.6M 2010
69% 50% The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Producer - 2009
38% 59% The Time Traveler's Wife Producer $63.4M 2009
77% 75% The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Producer $3.9M 2007
79% 70% A Mighty Heart Producer $9.2M 2007
70% 43% Year of the Dog Producer $1.5M 2007
32% 56% Running With Scissors Producer $6.8M 2006

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 81% LEGO Masters Executive Producer 2022-2024
85% 75% Outer Range Executive Producer 2022 2024
79% 77% 3 Body Problem Executive Producer 2024
86% 78% Feud Executive Producer 2017 2024
100% 94% High School Executive Producer 2022
94% 76% The Underground Railroad Executive Producer 2021
58% 89% Sweetbitter Executive Producer 2018-2019
84% 83% The OA Executive Producer 2016 2019
53% 70% Resurrection Executive Producer 2014-2015