"Tom Bernard" is an American film distributor specializing in art cinema and is one of the co-founders of Sony Pictures Classics/Sony Pictures Classics (SPC).

An alumnus of the University of Maryland, College Park/University of Maryland, Bernard became notable as head of sales at United Artists Classics (1981–1983) where he first worked with long-time collaborator Michael Barker. Bernard and Barker left UA to create Orion Classics in February 1983. They attended the Cannes Film Festival hoping to buy their first title and picked up Eric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach when they were "in a desperate position". Looking back 30 years later, Bernard (who still has a full head of hair) remembered "lots of big, fat, bald guys" in 1983 but now the class of people is "very, very different", "the only thing you can say is the same is they always have the best movies."

More Tom Bernard on Wikipedia.

We think it's the year of Philip Seymour Hoffman.

192

It?s curious that the two people who are pushing the closed-window policy are the two people who own (channels) that need to get on cable systems.

181

It certainly opens a door for people. And then it's their choice on how to use it, or if they choose to go through it.

148

The picture ('Capote') had a great run in Red Bank and it will be back there. And, well, for Sony Pictures Classics to have seven nominations in a (Hollywood) studio world, it's one of the high points of the last 15 years.

117