Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958) is an Academy Award-winning American motion picture producer and a Tony Award-winning theatre producer.
Rudin lives in New York City with his longtime partner John Barlow, a Broadway theatre publicist and founding partner of Barlow Hartman Public Relations.
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 was originally considered by Paramount Pictures (the studio at which Rudin had a production deal with), but they turned it down and Disney's Touchstone division produced it, where it became a hit.
Is leaving Paramount Pictures to head up the Walt Disney Company's Miramax Films, after Bob and Harvey Weinsten left to create a new independent film studio. He felt that after Sherry Lansing (retired chairman and CEO of Paramount) and Jonathan Dolgen (former president of Paramount) left and 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 in "Swimming With Sharks."
