Biography

Cary Brokaw is a highly respected and award-winning film and television producer and entertainment executive with extensive experience in film and television production, development, marketing and distribution. He has been the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Avenue Pictures since 1987.

Winner of Emmy Awards for Wit in 2002 and Angels in America in 2004, the PGA Vision Award in 2004, three Golden Globe Awards, three Humanitas Prizes and two Peabody Awards, Brokaw has developed, financed and produced over 60 motion pictures including Kiss of the Spider Woman, Down by Law, Nobody's Fool, The Player, After Dark, My Sweet, Drugstore Cowboy, Restoration, American Heart, Short Cuts, Restoration, Mindhunters, The Merchant of Venice, and Closer.

Brokaw and Avenue Pictures have over twenty five film projects in development including: Treasure Island, based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, to be directed by Andrew Davis (The Fugitive, A Perfect Murder, Holes), Garlic and Sapphires, based on the best-selling memoir by Ruth Reichl, By the Waters of Babylon written by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan, The Moviegoer based on the acclaimed novel by Walker Percy, Cities of the Plain based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, adapted by Andrew Dominik, and Someday, written by Kris Pathirana and directed by Michael Hoffman (Restoration, One Fine day, A Midsummer's Night Dream).

Brokaw was partnered with acclaimed late director Mike Nichols from 1999 to 2006. Brokaw and Avenue Pictures were also partnered with the late John Calley, former CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, at Sony Pictures Entertainment from 2004 to 2009.

Mr. Brokaw also supervises Avenue Pictures Television, which currently has over fifteen series in active development, including Joe Byrne starring Alec Baldwin (HBO), Five Kings written by Daniel McBride (AMC Networks), High Wire (Fox), Berlin (Stampede/Leonine) and The Player (Warner Bros. Television).

In addition to the Emmy winning Wit and Angels in America, Brokaw and Avenue Television also produced Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight starring Diane Keaton, Normal, directed by Jane Anderson, starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson); Path to War directed by John Frankenheimer starring Sir Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, and Donald Sutherland) (HBO), and The Company (TNT) starring Michael Keaton, among many other limited series and films for television.

Brokaw began his career at 20th Century Fox, where he served as Director of Special Projects, Vice President Acquisitions, Vice President of Domestic Distribution, and Executive Vice President Domestic Distribution. He was actively involved supervising the marketing and releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Julia, Breaking Away, All That Jazz, Alien and the phenomenon that The Rocky Horror Picture Show became as a Midnight Show, amongst many other motion pictures. He also served as Executive Vice President, and then President, of the Cineplex Odeon Corporation from 1979 to 1983, during which time the company grew from the 19th largest to the 3rd largest theater circuit in the world. He was also President/CEO of Island/Alive and later Island Pictures from 1983 to 1987, where he produced or acquired, and marketed, such films as El Norte, Stop Making Sense, The Trip to Bountiful, Mona Lisa, She's Gotta Have it, Down by Law and Kiss of the Spiderwoman.

Brokaw received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA with Honors from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, as well as an MFA from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.

Brokaw is a member of the Motion Picture Academy.

- IMDb mini biography by: E Scott