Jeremy Kleiner

Jeremy Kleiner
Kleiner in May 2017
Born	1976 or 1977 (age 49–50)
Occupation	Film producer
Years active	2000–present

Jeremy Kleiner (born 1976/1977) is an American film producer. Since 2013, he has served as the co-president of Plan B Entertainment with Dede Gardner. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for four consecutive years for producing 12 Years a Slave (2013), Selma (2014), The Big Short (2015), and Moonlight (2016), winning for 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight. He earned his fifth nomination for Vice (2018).

Early life

Kleiner was born into a Jewish family ^[1] in either 1976 or 1977. ^[1] He attended Harvard University, where he won the Detur Book Prize, the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, and was elected Phi Beta Kappa before graduating in 1998. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} The Harvard Crimson wrote of Kleiner's thesis that "in the world of Hoopes Prize winners, one thesis surpasses all others with 192 pages of pure writing," noting in 199 that Kleiner was "on the rise in L.A., on the way to becoming a big-shot," while his advisor Patrice Higonnet called Kleiner "one of the most gifted undergraduates I have seen in my thirty-odd years as an instructor in our university." ^[6]

Career

Kleiner worked as a creative executive at The Donners' Company. In 2003, he joined Plan B Entertainment, working his way up from a creative executive to producer. ^[7] Since 2013, he has served as the co-president of Plan B Entertainment with Dede Gardner. ^[8] He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for four consecutive years for producing 12 Years a Slave (2013), Selma (2014), The Big Short (2015), and Moonlight (2016), winning for 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight. He earned his fifth nomination for Vice (2018). ^[9]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2009	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee	Executive producer
2010	Kick-Ass
	Eat Pray Love
2013	World War Z	Producer
	12 Years a Slave
2014	Nightingale	Executive producer
	Selma	Producer
2015	True Story
	The Big Short
2016	Moonlight
	Frank & Lola	Special thanks
	The Tiger Hunter	Thanks
	The Lost City of Z	Producer
2017	Okja
	War Machine
	Brad's Status
	Marrowbone	Thanks
2018	Beautiful Boy	Producer
	If Beale Street Could Talk
	Vice
2019	The Last Black Man in San Francisco	Producer
	Ad Astra
	The King
2020	Kajillionaire
	Minari
	Irresistible
2022	Father of the Bride
	Women Talking
	Blonde
	Flight/Risk	Executive producer
	She Said	Producer
2023	Landscape with Invisible Hand
2024	Bob Marley: One Love
	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
	Apocalypse in the Tropics	Executive producer [10]
	Wolfs	Producer [11]
	Nickel Boys
2025	Mickey 17
	Olmo
	Bono: Stories of Surrender
	F1
	Preparation for the Next Life
	Hedda
2026	Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
TBA	The Tiger
	Wizards!
	Wrong Answer
	Weekend Warriors

Television

Year	Title	Role
2014	Deadbeat	Executive producer
2014−2015	Resurrection	Executive producer
2017	Monsters of God	Executive producer
2016−2019	The OA	Executive producer [12]
2018−2019	Sweetbitter	Executive producer
2020	The Third Day: Autumn	Executive producer
	The Third Day	Executive producer
2021	The Underground Railroad	Executive producer
2020−2021	Lego Masters	Executive producer
2022	Outer Range	Executive producer
	Paper Girls	Executive producer
	High School	Executive producer
2024	3 Body Problem	Executive producer
2025	Adolescence	Executive producer
TBA	Wytches	Executive producer

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Picture	12 Years a Slave	Won	[13]
2014		Selma	Nominated	[14]
2015		The Big Short	Nominated	[15]
2016		Moonlight	Won	[16]
2018		Vice	Nominated	[17]
2022		Women Talking	Nominated	[18]
2024		Nickel Boys	Nominated	[19]
2025		F1	Pending	[20]

AACTA International Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Film	12 Years a Slave	Nominated
2015		The Big Short	Nominated

AFI Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Top 10 Films	12 Years a Slave	Won
2014		Selma	Won
2015		The Big Short	Won
2016		Moonlight	Won

Alliance of Women Film Journalists

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Picture	12 Years a Slave	Won
2014		Selma	Nominated

American Black Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Movie of the Year	12 Years a Slave	Nominated

Awards Circuit Community Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Motion Picture	12 Years a Slave	Nominated
2014		Selma	Nominated

Black Reel Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Film	12 Years a Slave	Won
2014		Selma	Won
2016		Moonlight	Won

British Academy Film Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Film	12 Years a Slave	Won	[21]
2015		The Big Short	Nominated
2016		Moonlight	Nominated
2025	Outstanding British Film	H Is for Hawk	Nominated

British Academy Television Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2022	Best International Programme	The Underground Railroad	Won	[21]

CinEuphoria Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best International Film	12 Years a Slave	Nominated

Golden Raspberry Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2022	Worst Picture	Blonde	Won	[22]

Gotham Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Feature	12 Years a Slave	Nominated
	Audience Award		Nominated
2014	Best Feature	Nickel Boys	Nominated

Independent Spirit Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Film	12 Years a Slave	Won
2014		Selma	Nominated
2024		Nickel Boys	Nominated

Italian Online Movie Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Picture	12 Years a Slave	Nominated

Online Film & Television Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Picture	12 Years a Slave	Won
2014		Selma	Nominated
2015		The Big Short	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2015	Outstanding Television Movie	Nightingale	Nominated	[23]
2021	Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series	The Underground Railroad	Nominated
2024	Outstanding Drama Series	3 Body Problem	Nominated
2025	Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series	Adolescence	Won

Producers Guild of America Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Theatrical Motion Picture	12 Years a Slave	Won [a]
2014	Visionary Award		Won	[24]
2015	Best Theatrical Motion Picture	The Big Short	Won
2016		Moonlight	Nominated
2018		Vice	Nominated
2020	David O. Selznick Award		Won	[25]

Notes

1. Tied with Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman for Gravity .

References

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External links

• Jeremy Kleiner at IMDb