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Richard Sakai
Highest Rated: 100% Icebox (2018)
Lowest Rated: 31% How Do You Know (2010)
Birthday: Jan 28, 1954
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
This executive and producer has long been associated with producer-director James L. Brooks. Sakai first met Brooks in 1977 while working as a go-fer at John Charles Walters Productions, the company behind the sitcom "Taxi" (ABC, 1978-82; NBC, 1982-83). During the shows run, he worked his way up to director and producer. In 1984, he joined Brooks' newly-formed production company Gracie Films and was eventually named as president. In that capacity, he oversaw a number of TV sitcoms, the Emmy-winning variety series "The Tracey Ullman Show" (Fox, 1987-90) and its Emmy-winning animated spin-off "The Simpsons" (Fox, 1990- ). Among the failed series he produced were "Sibs" (ABC, 1991-92) and "Phenom" (ABC, 1993-94).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | 95% | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. | Producer | $20.3M | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Maggie Simpson in The Force Awakens From Its Nap | Producer | - | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Good, the Bart, and the Loki | Producer | - | 2021 |
| 100% | 77% | Icebox | Producer | - | 2018 |
| 94% | 83% | The Edge of Seventeen | Producer | $14.4M | 2016 |
| 31% | 25% | How Do You Know | Executive Producer | $30.2M | 2010 |
| 87% | 77% | The Simpsons Movie | Producer | $183.1M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Simpsons Movie | Producer | - | 2007 |
| 54% | 60% | Spanglish | Producer | $42.0M | 2004 |
| 49% | 66% | Riding in Cars With Boys | Producer | $29.8M | 2001 |
| 86% | 86% | As Good as It Gets | Executive Producer | $147.6M | 1997 |
| 86% | 79% | Bottle Rocket | Executive Producer | $488.6K | 1996 |
| 84% | 79% | Jerry Maguire | Producer | $153.6M | 1996 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38% | No Score Yet | What About Joan | Executive Producer | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Newhart | Director | 1985 |