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Donna Gigliotti
American film producer

Donna Gigliotti

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American film producer
Gender
Female
Age
69 years
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Donna Gigliotti (born 1955) is an American film producer. She is best known for producing the Academy Award-winning film Shakespeare in Love with David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman (who also co-wrote the film's screenplay). She also produced the Academy Award-winning films Silver Linings Playbook and The Reader. Gigliotti started her professional career as an assistant to Martin Scorsese on the film Raging Bull. During the 1990s Gigliotti worked as an executive-producer on several films including Emma, Talk of Angels and Devil in a Blue Dress.
Currently, she serves as the President of Levantine Films, a financing, and production company based in New York. For Levantine she has produced The Fundamentals of Caring starring Paul Rudd and executive produced Beasts of No Nation starring Idris Elba. She developed Hidden Figures, the pioneering story of the black women mathematicians at NASA whose calculations fueled some of America's greatest achievements in space exploration. She produced the film, which stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle MonĂ¡e and Kevin Costner for Fox 2000, a division of Twentieth Century Fox Corporation.

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

  • 1998: Best Picture (for Shakespeare in Love, won)
  • 2008: Best Picture (for The Reader, nominated)
  • 2012: Best Picture (for Silver Linings Playbook, nominated)
  • 2016: Best Picture (for Hidden Figures, Pending)

BAFTA Awards

  • 1998: Best Film (for Shakespeare in Love, won)
  • 2008: Best Film (for The Reader, nominated)

Producers Guild of America (PGA)

  • 1998: Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award (for Shakespeare in Love, nominated)

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