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John S. Lyons

Highest Rated: 95% Fargo (1996)

Lowest Rated: 8% Rio, I Love You (2014)

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John Lyons began his career in the theater as casting director for the Manhattan Theatre Club and Playwrights Horizon, where he assembled such shows as the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Sunday in the Park With George" (1984) by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. He received his first feature "casting" credit for "King Kong Lives" (1986) and then embarked on a long association with Joel and Ethan Coen, serving as casting director on "Raising Arizona" (1987). Although he had cast seven films for the Coens by 1998, Lyons also enjoyed multiple film casting collaborations with directors Frank Oz ("Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" 1988 and "House Sitter" 1992, both with Steve Martin), Bernard Rose ("Paperhouse" 1988 and "Chicago Joe and the Showgirl" 1990), Lapine ("Impromptu" 1991 and "Life With Mikey" 1993) and Andrew Bergman ("It Could Happen to You" 1994 and "Striptease" 1996). He branched into feature producing with Paul Thomas Anderson's directing debut "Hard Eight" (1996) and then shared duties (with Joanne Sellar and Lloyd Levin) on Anderson's "Boogie Nights" (1997). Lapine also worked as a casting director for PBS' "American Playhouse" productions of "The Rise and Fall of Daniel Rocket" (1986) and "Armistead Maupin's 'Tales of the City'" (1994), in addition to producing the TV version of Claudia Shear's one woman show "Blown Sideways Through Life" (1996).

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Highest-Rated Movies

95% 92% Fargo
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95% 64% All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Watchlist
94% 89% Boogie Nights
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93% 80% Lorenzo's Oil
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93% 90% Miller's Crossing
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91% 85% Raising Arizona
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89% 89% Barton Fink
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89% 84% Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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84% 73% Pieces of April Watchlist
82% 83% Hard Eight
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 95% 64% 2022 Producer Sisters 60% 52% 2015 Producer Rio, I Love You 8% 18% 2014 Executive Producer Pieces of April 84% 73% 2003 Producer Austin Powers in Goldmember 52% 44% 2002 Producer The Opportunists 54% 48% 2000 Producer Isn't She Great 24% 37% 2000 Casting Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 53% 71% 1999 Producer Pete's Meteor 23% 1998 Producer The Big Lebowski 80% 93% 1998 Casting Boogie Nights 94% 89% 1997 Producer City Hall 60% 38% 1996 Casting Hard Eight 82% 83% 1996 Producer Fargo 95% 92% 1996 Casting A Walk in the Clouds 46% 75% 1995 Casting The Hudsucker Proxy 64% 79% 1994 Casting For Love or Money 37% 46% 1993 Casting Amos & Andrew 17% 31% 1993 Casting Life With Mikey 25% 39% 1993 Casting Housesitter 36% 48% 1992 Casting Lorenzo's Oil 93% 80% 1992 Casting Barton Fink 89% 89% 1991 Casting Mortal Thoughts 56% 36% 1991 Casting Miller's Crossing 93% 90% 1990 Casting Henry & June 60% 68% 1990 Casting
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