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Ted Hope(I)

  • Producer
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Additional Crew
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Locarno International Film Festival
Filmworker -- that's how Ted describes himself. He's a producer of over 70 films, studio executive on over 60, CEO of a start-up streamer, co-head of 3 production companies, executive director of a film society & festival, a Professor Of Practice at 2 universities, and founder of a post-production facility, 2 websites, 2 think tanks, & an app. He launched Amazon's foray into feature film production, leading them to 19 Oscar nominations and 5 wins. As a producer, his films have received 25 Oscar nominations, with 6 wins. Ted's memoir and newsletter Hope For Film, are both must reads. Ted helped launch the feature film careers of Ang Lee, Nicole Holofcener, Hal Hartley, Michel Gondry and many others. His most recent films include the first narrative from Oscar-winning documentary director, Roger Ross Williams, "Cassandro", as well as the documentary "Invisible Nation", directed and produced by Vanessa Hope.
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    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 7 wins & 8 nominations total

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    Known for

    Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, and Joan Allen in The Ice Storm (1997)
    The Ice Storm
    7.3
    • Producer
    • 1997
    Paul Giamatti in American Splendor (2003)
    American Splendor
    7.4
    • Producer
    • 2003
    Winston Chao, May Chin, and Mitchell Lichtenstein in The Wedding Banquet (1993)
    The Wedding Banquet
    7.6
    • Producer
    • 1993
    21 Grams (2003)
    21 Grams
    7.6
    • Producer
    • 2003

    Credits

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    Producer



    • Lone Wolf
      • producer
      • Post-production
    • Paul Is Dead
      • producer
      • Pre-production



    • It Doesn't Matter (2024)
      It Doesn't Matter
      6.4
      • executive producer
      • 2024
    • The Black Sea (2024)
      The Black Sea
      7.9
      • executive producer
      • 2024
    • Ing-wen Tsai in Invisible Nation (2023)
      Invisible Nation
      7.7
      • producer
      • 2023
    • Gael García Bernal in Cassandro (2023)
      Cassandro
      6.5
      • producer
      • 2023
    • Jerry Brown: The Disrupter (2022)
      Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
      7.3
      • executive producer
      • 2022
    • Nataliia Nagorna in Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2022)
      Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
      7.2
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Ben Affleck and Daniel Ranieri in The Tender Bar (2021)
      The Tender Bar
      6.7
      • producer
      • 2021
    • Jeffery Robinson in Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (2021)
      Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
      7.7
      • executive producer
      • 2021
    • Francesco (2020)
      Francesco
      5.9
      • executive producer
      • 2020
    • Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson, and Haley Bennett in A Kind of Murder (2016)
      A Kind of Murder
      5.3
      • producer (produced by)
      • 2016
    • China Connection: Joan (2015)
      China Connection: Joan
      Short
      • producer
      • 2015
    • Jon Huntsman, Gracie Mei Huntsman, and Guangcheng Chen in All Eyes and Ears (2015)
      All Eyes and Ears
      7.4
      • producer
      • 2015
    • China Connection: Jerry (2014)
      China Connection: Jerry
      Short
      • producer
      • 2014
    • China in Three Words (2013)
      China in Three Words
      9.2
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2013
    • Dree Hemingway and Boonee in Starlet (2012)
      Starlet
      7.0
      • executive producer
      • 2012

    Second Unit or Assistant Director



    • Blowback
      7.5
      • assistant director
      • 1991
    • Monsters (1988)
      Monsters
      7.3
      TV Series
      • assistant director
      • 1990–1991
    • Trust (1990)
      Trust
      7.4
      • first assistant director
      • 1990
    • Patty Mullen in Frankenhooker (1990)
      Frankenhooker
      6.2
      • first assistant director
      • 1990
    • Basket Case 2 (1990)
      Basket Case 2
      5.4
      • assistant director
      • 1990
    • Robert John Burke and Adrienne Shelly in The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
      The Unbelievable Truth
      7.2
      • first assistant director
      • 1989

    Additional Crew



    • Jeffery Robinson in Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (2021)
      Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
      7.7
      • executive producer
      • 2021
    • Tiger Warsaw (1988)
      Tiger Warsaw
      4.7
      • assistant to producer
      • 1988
    • Hotshot (1986)
      Hotshot
      5.3
      • key production assistant
      • 1986
    • Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb in Sid and Nancy (1986)
      Sid and Nancy
      7.0
      • production assistant
      • 1986

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    Personal details

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    • Official sites
      • HammerToNails website
      • Hope For Film blog
    • Born
      • 1962
    • Spouse
      • Vanessa HopeJanuary 6, 2009 - present
    • Other works
      Book by same person and with another person (Anthony Kaufman): "Hope for Film: A Producer's Journey Across the Revolutions of Indie Film and Global Streaming". New York:Counterpoint; Reprint edition. ISBN-10: 1640093508; ISBN-13: 978-1640093508

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      Partner in Good Machine, an indie-film company, with screenwriter friend James Schamus and David Linde. Bought by Universal Pictures and merged into a new division of the studio called Focus, June 2002.

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