Martin Katz (producer)

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Martin Katz
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Katz at the Genie Awards in 2012
OccupationFilm producer
Known forGenie Award winner

Martin F. Katz CM [1] is a Canadian film and television producer and media executive. He is president of the production firm Prospero Pictures, and a former president of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. [2] [3] Prior to establishing Prospero Pictures, Katz was a producer with Atlantis Entertainment and an executive producer of MSNBC Canada. [4]

As a producer, his credits include the television series My Life as a Dog , [5] Married Life , [4] Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... , [6] and Ice Road Truckers , and the films Keeping the Promise , [7] The Claim , The Gospel of John , Hotel Rwanda , [8] Spider , [2] It's a Boy Girl Thing , [2] Shake Hands with the Devil , [8] Inconceivable , The Making of Plus One , A Dangerous Method , [9] Man on the Train , Cosmopolis , [9] and Maps to the Stars . [10]

Katz became chair of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television in 2011, [9] [11] and held the role until being succeeded by John Young in 2019. [12] He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022. [1]

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