
Marc Platt
Highest Rated: 93% Drive (2011)
Lowest Rated: 6% The Perfect Man (2005)
Birthday: Apr 14, 1957
Birthplace: Pikesville, Maryland, USA
Marc Platt was a renowned producer in the worlds of theater and film, who gained some notoriety due to his involvement in perhaps the biggest flub in the history of the Academy Awards. Born on April 14, 1957 in Pikesville, MD, to a schoolteacher mother and a shoe salesman father, Platt first set his sights on becoming a lawyer, graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, and getting his masters in law from New York University. Platt spent a few years as an entertainment lawyer before he got the producing bug. He started out in theater, as an associate producer on the play "Total Abandon" (1983), before moving into Hollywood and taking an executive producer credit on the college comedy "Campus Man" (1987). Throughout the nineties, Platt put in time at studios such as Orion Pictures, TriStar Pictures, and Universal Studios, before starting his own production company, Marc Platt Productions. The early 2000s gave Platt some huge successes on both stage and screen, in the form of the smash hit Broadway musical "Wicked" and the Reese Witherspoon law comedy "Legally Blonde" (2001) and its sequel, "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde" (2003). The rest of the decade saw Platt producing a wide variety of titles, from the Anne Hathaway indie drama "Rachel Getting Married" (2008) to the Fellini-inspired musical "Nine" (2009), and from the stylish neo-noir of "Drive" (2011) to the ludicrous shoot-em-up "2 Guns" (2013). Platt hit pay dirt, however, when he co-produced Damien Chazelle's "La La Land" (2016), a splashy romantic homage to classic movie musicals that scored big at the box office and swept the 89th Academy Awards, earning 14 nominations, a record tied with "All About Eve" (1950) and "Titanic" (1997) for most nominations for a single film. On Oscar night, presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway declared "La La Land" to be the winner for Best Picture, as almost all awards prognosticators had predicted. However, viewers watched in shock when, as Platt was giving his acceptance speech, it was revealed that the presenters had been given the wrong envelope, and that the actual Best Picture winner was "Moonlight" (2016), a quiet, micro budgeted drama about black LGBT youth. Platt and company graciously ceded the stage to the cast and crew of "Moonlight," unintentionally creating a Hollywood moment that would be discussed and analyzed forever.
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Legally Blonde 3 | Producer | - | 2025 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wicked Part 1 | Producer | - | 2024 |
67% | 94% | The Little Mermaid | Producer | $298.2M | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Players | Producer | - | 2023 |
57% | 52% | Babylon | Producer | $15.2M | 2022 |
83% | 75% | Better Nate Than Ever | Producer | - | 2022 |
29% | 88% | Dear Evan Hansen | Producer | $15.0M | 2021 |
75% | 68% | Oslo | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
75% | 97% | Cruella | Producer | $86.1M | 2021 |
22% | 23% | Thunder Force | Producer | - | 2021 |
89% | 90% | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Producer | - | 2020 |
57% | 94% | Aladdin | Executive Producer | $355.6M | 2019 |
79% | 64% | Mary Poppins Returns | Producer | $172.0M | 2018 |
67% | 70% | Nappily Ever After | Producer | - | 2018 |
57% | 35% | Hotel Artemis | Producer | $6.7M | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert | Executive Producer | - | 2018 |
91% | 81% | La La Land | Producer | $151.1M | 2016 |
43% | 41% | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Producer | $1.7M | 2016 |
44% | 48% | The Girl on the Train | Producer | $75.2M | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Honey 3 | Executive Producer | - | 2016 |
91% | 87% | Bridge of Spies | Producer | $72.3M | 2015 |
65% | 43% | Ricki and the Flash | Producer | $26.8M | 2015 |
55% | 56% | Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks | Executive Producer | $12.5K | 2014 |
30% | 38% | Lost River | Producer | $45.4K | 2014 |
33% | 29% | Song One | Producer | $20.2K | 2014 |
71% | 49% | Into the Woods | Producer | $128.0M | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Mockingbird | Producer | - | 2014 |
13% | 44% | Winter's Tale | Producer | $12.6M | 2014 |
6% | 28% | Evidence | Producer | - | 2013 |
64% | 66% | 2 Guns | Producer | $75.6M | 2013 |
10% | 53% | Honey 2 | Executive Producer | - | 2011 |
93% | 79% | Drive | Producer | $35.1M | 2011 |
82% | 84% | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Producer | $32.8M | 2010 |
28% | 60% | Charlie St. Cloud | Producer | $31.1M | 2010 |
18% | 39% | Cop Out | Producer | $44.9M | 2010 |
38% | 45% | Love and Other Impossible Pursuits | Producer | $20.6K | 2009 |
39% | 37% | Nine | Producer | $19.7M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Legally Blondes | Producer | - | 2009 |
84% | 62% | Rachel Getting Married | Producer | $12.8M | 2008 |
71% | 69% | Wanted | Producer | $134.3M | 2008 |
14% | 33% | The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising | Producer | $8.8M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 56% | Once Upon a Mattress | Executive Producer | - | 2005 |
55% | 63% | Happy Endings | Producer | $1.3M | 2005 |
6% | 58% | The Perfect Man | Producer | $16.2M | 2005 |
21% | 71% | Honey | Producer | $30.2M | 2003 |
36% | 34% | Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Producer | $89.8M | 2003 |
71% | 72% | Legally Blonde | Producer | $96.5M | 2001 |
53% | 52% | Josie and the Pussycats | Producer | $14.3M | 2001 |
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scott Pilgrim Takes Off | Executive Producer | 2023 |
92% | 92% | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Musical Director (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Path to 9/11 | Executive Producer | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Empire Falls | Executive Producer | 2005 |
25% | No Score Yet | MDs | Executive Producer | 2002 |
68% | 78% | Doctor Who | Writer | 1989 |