Ido Ostrowsky

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Ido Ostrowsky (born 1979) [1] is an American film producer. He and his producing partner Nora Grossman run Bristol Automotive, a production company that they founded in 2012. He produced the 2014 film The Imitation Game , for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards.

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Career

Ostrowsky was raised in a Jewish family [2] and attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he majored in mass communications. After graduating, he worked as an assistant in the television industry, which included a job as a writers' assistant on the series Gossip Girl . In 2009, after hearing about the official apology issued to computer scientist Alan Turing by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, he optioned the rights to Andrew Hodges' biography of Turing, Alan Turing: The Enigma , with his friend and producing partner Nora Grossman. Screenwriter Graham Moore wrote a screenplay based on the book and in 2011 Ostrowsky and Grossman sold the script to Warner Bros. [1] In 2012, they founded a production company, Bristol Automotive, [3] and reclaimed Moore's script from Warner Bros. since production had not started on the film after a year, as their contract stipulated. [4] They then partnered with a third producer, Teddy Schwarzman, who funded the film's budget. The final film, The Imitation Game , was released in 2014. [5]

Ostrowsky, Grossman and Schwarzman received numerous accolades for their work on The Imitation Game, including nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture, [6] the BAFTA Award for Best Film, [7] and the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture. [8] Ostrowsky and Grossman were named among Variety 's "10 Producers to Watch" in 2014. [4]

Personal life

Ostrowsky was born in Israel [9] and moved to Los Angeles as a one-year-old in 1980. [1] He is of Russian-Jewish heritage and is openly gay. [9]

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  2. ↑ Jewish Business News: "The Jews of Oscar" January 15, 2015
  3. ↑ Wloszczyna, Susan (January 27, 2015). "The Big O: How Nora Grossman of 'The Imitation Game' Broke the Code of Becoming a Woman Producer". Indiewire . Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Blair, Iain (November 11, 2014). "10 Producers to Watch: Ido Ostrowsky & Nora Grossman". Variety . Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ Siegel, Tatiana (November 11, 2014). "Cracking the Code: How Two Out-of-Work Producers Brought 'Imitation Game' to the Screen". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved June 15, 2016.
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  7. ↑ "Baftas 2015: full list of nominations". The Guardian . January 9, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Theatrical Motion Picture, Animated Theatrical and Long-Form TV Nominations Announced" (Press release). Producers Guild of America. January 5, 2015. Archived from the original on September 25, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
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