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Nora Grossman is an American film producer. She and her producing partner Ido Ostrowsky run Bristol Automotive, a production company that they founded in 2012. She produced the 2014 film The Imitation Game , for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards.

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Grossman was born to a Jewish family [1] in Los Angeles and moved to North Carolina as a child. [2] She graduated from Ravenscroft School in 2001 [3] and went on to attend Boston University, where she studied film and television. [2] After graduating in 2005, she worked in various jobs in the television industry, [4] including as a junior executive at the production company of Paul Scheuring. [2]

In 2009, after hearing about the official apology issued to computer scientist Alan Turing by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, she optioned the rights to Andrew Hodges' biography of Turing, Alan Turing: The Enigma , with her friend and producing partner Ido Ostrowsky. [4] She travelled to London to meet with Hodges in person to request the rights to his book even though she had no experience as a film producer. [5] Another of her friends, screenwriter Graham Moore, wrote a screenplay based on the book and in 2011 Grossman and Ostrowsky sold the script to Warner Bros. [4] [6] In 2012, Grossman and Ostrowsky founded a production company, Bristol Automotive, [2] and reclaimed Moore's script from Warner Bros. since production had not started on the film after a year. [7] 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]

Grossman, Ostrowsky and Schwarzman received numerous accolades for their work on The Imitation Game, including nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture, [8] the BAFTA Award for Best Film, [9] and the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture. [10] Grossman and Ostrowsky were named among Variety 's "10 Producers to Watch" in 2014. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Jewish Business News: "The Jews of Oscar" January 15, 2015
  2. 1 2 3 4 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.
  3. ↑ "Creative Leadership". Ravenscroft School. 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-08-06. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 Goldstein, Meredith (December 11, 2014). "'The Imitation Game' producer back at BU". The Boston Globe . Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  5. 1 2 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.
  6. ↑ Weston, Eve (February 17, 2015). "How Two TV Assistants Turned Their Obsession Into an Oscar Nomination". LA Weekly . Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  7. 1 2 Blair, Iain (November 11, 2014). "10 Producers to Watch: Ido Ostrowsky & Nora Grossman". Variety . Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Oscar Nominations 2015: Full List". Variety. January 15, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Baftas 2015: full list of nominations". The Guardian. January 9, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Theatrical Motion Picture, Animated Theatrical and Long-Form TV Nominations Announced" (Press release). Producers Guild of America. January 5, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
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