Brian Grazer
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"s "Time 100/100 Most Influential People in the World"

* 2010 – Simon Wiesenthal Center Humanitarian Award, together with Ron Howard

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"Brian Thomas Grazer" is an American film and television producer.

He co-founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986, with Ron Howard. The films they produced have grossed over $13 billion. The movies include four for which Grazer was personally nominated for an Academy Award: Splash (film)/Splash (1984), Apollo 13 (film)/Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (film)/A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Frost/Nixon (film)/Frost/Nixon (2008). His films and TV shows have been nominated for 43 Academy Awards, and 131 Emmys.

In 2002, Grazer won an Oscar for Academy Award for Best Picture/Best Picture for A Beautiful Mind (shared with Ron Howard). In 2007, he was named one of Time Magazine"s "Time 100/100 Most Influential People in the World".

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He's the most real, down-to-earth guy I've worked with. George is as comfortable talking to a film crew as he is talking with a director or star. He's got an old-fashioned sense of modesty and style. He's our modern-day Gary Cooper or Cary Grant.

I can't tell you anything other than I'm hoping it works out in the way that we want it to. But I'm optimistic.

Every time we are about to renew our contracts, Ron brings up a Western. I always say, 'OK, OK.' But I never thought he'd actually do one.

We thought it was going to be a five-minute thing, like a trip to the Oval Office -- a photo and a handshake.

I guess this film is about how our cultural zeitgeist works.

We're coming out of the valley we were in this summer. People love Jodie Foster and showed they'll come out for the right thing. It's about the movies you make.

She has a protective eye. She's experienced a lot in her life and that intense protection is always in full operation.

There's always a year when the pundits say the movie business is over.

The mystery, the excitement, the unpredictability has vanished. Of course, I'm as guilty as the rest.