Michael Shamberg is a two-time Academy Award nominee, as a producer of Steven Soderbergh's Best Picture Oscar nominee Erin Brockovich, starring Academy Award winner Julia Roberts and Albert Finney. He additionally received BAFTA, Producers Guild of America, and Golden Globe Award nominations for the acclaimed hit movie. Mr. Shamberg was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee as the producer of Lawrence Kasdan's Best Picture Oscar nominee The Big Chill. The sleeper success showcased an outstanding ensemble cast, and its 30th Anniversary was commemorated at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
He was in post-production on A Walk Among the Tombstones, starring Liam Neeson and Dan Stevens, adapted by director Scott Frank from the Lawrence Block novel. The movie was released by Universal Pictures.
Mr. Shamberg and producer Stacey Sher, his partner in the production company Double Feature Films, were honored by the ACLU for their commitment to films and television that are empowering, inspirational, and thought-provoking, dealing with issues from public safety to education, social justice to censorship. Their film World Trade Center, starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, and Maggie Gyllenhaal for director Oliver Stone, was chosen for the 2006 Christopher Award, which is presented to those who create films that affirm the highest values of the human spirit.
He was executive producer of Wish I Was Here director Zach Braff's previous feature, the award-winning Garden State. His many other producing credits include Quentin Tarantino's Academy Award-winning Django Unchained and Pulp Fiction; Steven Soderbergh's Contagion and Out of Sight; Ben Stiller's Reality Bites; John Hamburg's Along Came Polly; Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty and its sequel Be Cool, the latter directed by F. Gary Gray; Andrew Niccol's Gattaca; Todd Graff's Camp; Richard LaGravenese's Living Out Loud and Freedom Writers, which received the Humanitas Prize; Milos Forman's Man on the Moon, starring Golden Globe Award winner Jim Carrey; and the Comedy Central television series Reno 911!
Mr. Shamberg received BAFTA and Golden Globe Award nominations as the producer of Academy Award nominees Charles Crichton and John Cleese's A Fish Called Wanda. The comedy classic starred Mr. Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Palin, and Academy Award winner Kevin Kline.
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