Biography for
Scott Rudin More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

Trivia

Ranked #18 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #26 in 2002.

Was President of 20th Century Fox in 1986.

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) was originally considered by Paramount Pictures (the studio at which Rudin had a production deal with), but Paramount turned it down. Disney's Touchstone division produced it, and it became a hit.

Left Paramount Pictures to head up the Walt Disney Company's Miramax Films, after Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein left to create a new independent film studio. After Sherry Lansing (retired chairman and CEO of Paramount) and Jonathan Dolgen (former president of Paramount) left, he said that: "I had a hugely emotional response to Sherry and John leaving and the heart went out of the place for me." (Source: Oscarwatch.com). [2005].

Was the inspiration for Buddy Ackerman (played by Kevin Spacey) in Swimming with Sharks (1994).

Ranked #3 of 50 influential people in The new York Observer's "The New Power Gays" article, June 2011.

Personal Quotes

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.

[on whether his late release of 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' was an attempt to ensure Oscar candidacy] It's a movie, not a worm on a hook.