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| Popular As | Jon Avnet |
| Occupation | Producer |
| Age | 75 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Scorpio |
| Born | November 17, 1949 (Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA) |
| Birthday | November 17 |
| Town/City | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Jon Avnet’s zodiac sign is Scorpio. According to astrologers, Scorpio-born are passionate and assertive people. They are determined and decisive, and will research until they find out the truth. Scorpio is a great leader, always aware of the situation and also features prominently in resourcefulness. Scorpio is a Water sign and lives to experience and express emotions. Although emotions are very important for Scorpio, they manifest them differently than other water signs. In any case, you can be sure that the Scorpio will keep your secrets, whatever they may be.
Jon Avnet was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.
Jon Avnet has directed, written, and produced dozens of motion pictures, television movies and Broadway plays, winning Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Peabody's, DGA Awards, the Humanitas, Golden Globes and the AFI's Franklin Shaffner Medal.
He has directed the Oscar-nominated performance of Jessica Tandy and three Emmy-winning performances of Margo Martindale, Colleen Dewhurst and Judy Davis. Mr. Avnet received an honorary doctorate in communications from the American Film Institute in 2013 and the Creative Spirit Award from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016.
Mr. Avnet is best known for co-writing, directing and producing Fried Green Tomatoes, which garnered multiple Academy Award nominations (for writing and for Jessica Tandy, who co-starred with Kathy Bates, Cicely Tyson and Mary Louise Parker) and BAFTA's.
Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for Best Picture by the Golden Globes, won the GLAAD award for Best Picture, and was one of the top grossing films in the year of its release.He produced Risky Business with his partner Steve Tisch, which launched the career of Tom Cruise.
Mr. Avnet was the executive producer of Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman (winner of the Oscar for Best Actress) and directed by Darren Aronofsky. Black Swan received five Oscar nominations in total (including Best Picture) as well as multiple nominations and wins from the PGA, WGA, SAG, BAFTA, AFI, and the Golden Globes.
In television, Avnet produced (with Steve Tisch) The Burning Bed, starring Farrah Fawcett, which garnered eight Emmy nominations and was the highest-rated television movie ever aired on NBC. It received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture.
This film is credited with creating the "battered woman syndrome" as a legal defense for victims of domestic violence.Mr. Avnet most recently directed and co-wrote Three Christs, starring Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Walton Goggins, Bradley Whitford, Julianna Margulies and Jane Alexander.
Based on the controversial study in 1959 and chronicled in Dr. Milton Rokeach's "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti," the film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and is slated for release by IFC Films in January of 2020.
In the summer of 2019, Mr. Avnet directed two episodes of the Manhunt limited series about the Olympic Park Bomber in 1996. Mr. Avnet directed ten episodes of FX Network's Justified, starring Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins.
Justified received a Peabody award and Margo Martindale won an Emmy for her performance. He reunited with frequent collaborator Graham Yost, directing an episode of Sneaky Pete Season 2 for Amazon, starring Giovanni Ribisi, Margo Martindale and Marin Ireland.
In 2018, he became an executive producer of Sneaky Pete Season 3 and directed 4 episodes additional episodes.He first collaborated With Graham Yost as Executive Producer of the critically-acclaimed "Boomtown" for NBC.
Avnet directed the pilot and eight additional episodes. Boomtown won the Critics Associations Award for Best Series and a Peabody Award.Mr. Avnet is CEO of Indigenous Media which he founded with Rodrigo Garcia and his son Jake Avnet, who is the Chief Operating Officer.
Indigenous Media produces 60 Second Docs, which has received over 4.25 billion views since its debut and has 7.6 million followers.In September of 2019, Avnet is producing for Indigenous Media, Rodrigo Garcia's Four Good Days, starring Glenn Close and Mila Kunis.
IM has also produced, in association with Kerry Washington, Five Points, the first scripted drama for Facebook Watch. It premiered in the spring of 2018 and had its second season air in August of 2019.
In 2001, Avnet directed, co-wrote with Paul Brickman, and produced the critically-praised Uprising, starring Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Stephen Moyer, Jon Voight, and Donald Sutherland.
This film dealt with the resistance during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. Mr. Avnet was nominated for a DGA award for best directing.Mr. Avnet directed Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in Righteous Kill, released in September 2008.
He also directed and produced Red Corner starring Richard Gere, and Up Close and Personal starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer with a script by Joan Didion and John Dunne. His first directing outing (which he also co-wrote and produced) was the TV movie Between Two Women, starring Colleen Dewhurst and Farrah Fawcett, which earned Dewhurst an Emmy for her performance.
He directed and executive-produced The Starter Wife, a six-hour limited series for the USA Network starring Debra Messing, Joe Mantegna, and Judy Davis (who won the Best Supporting Actress Emmy for her performance).
Based on the novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, it aired May 2007 as the highest-rated limited cable series that year and received ten Emmy nominations as well as DGA and PGA nominations for Mr. Avnet.In 2004, Avnet produced and co-financed with Aurelio DeLaurentiis Paramount's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow starring Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Angelina Jolie.
Along with Jordan Kerner, Avnet produced Less Than Zero, When a Man Loves a Woman, Miami Rhapsody, The Mighty Ducks films and George of the Jungle, to name a few, as well as Alex Haley's Mama Flora's Family.
On Broadway, his plays have received 35 Tony nominations and 12 Tony awards. He produced, with Bill Haber, the Tony Award-winning "Spamalot" and "The History Boys." He also produced "The Pillowman," "Inherit the Wind," starring Christopher Plummer, "The Seafarer" by Connor McPherson, and the Mike Nichols-directed "Country Girl," starring Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand.
Mr. Avnet attended the University of Pennsylvania, received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and was awarded a fellowship in directing to the American Film Institute. Today, Mr. Avnet is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at the American Film Institute, where he has been a guiding force for over 30 years (and Chairman for eight years).
In addition, he is co-chair of the Directors Guild of America Negotiations Committee, and serves on the Board of Directors, the Western Directors Council, and the Pension and Health Plan Committee of the DGA.
Mr. Avnet served on the Board of Overseers for the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania for 17 years. He has participated as a mentor at the Director's Lab at Sundance and its sister program Emergence in France.
He lectures on film and holocaust studies at numerous universities worldwide and has supported a diverse range of charitable organizations.
