Wendy Finerman

Wendy Finerman
Born	(1960-08-02) August 2, 1960 California
Occupation	producer
Years active	1988–present
Spouse(s)	Mark Canton David Peterson
Awards	Best Picture 1994 Forrest Gump Best Children's Film 1997 FairyTale: A True Story Best Motion Picture – Drama 1994 Forrest Gump

Wendy Finerman (born 1960) is an American film producer of nearly a dozen feature films.

Biography

Finerman was born to a Jewish family.^[1] She was raised in Beverly Hills, California.^[2] Her sister, Karen Finerman, is a hedgefund owner/trader in New York City and appears on CNBC's Fast Money.^[3]

Finerman was one of three producers who won the Academy Award for Best Picture for Forrest Gump in 1994 and a BAFTA Award for Fairy Tale in 1998. She has also produced such popular films as The Fan, Stepmom, Drumline, and The Devil Wears Prada. Finerman was formerly married to producer Mark Canton and now is married to David Peterson. The mother of four children, she is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and runs her own company, Wendy Finerman Productions.

References

↑ The New York Jewish Week: "Jewish Girls And Money" by Amy Spiro October 19, 2010
↑ New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths FINERMAN, JANE" March 28, 2012
↑ MSNBC: "An excerpt from Karen Finerman’s “Finerman’s Rules”" June 5, 2013

External links

Wendy Finerman at the Internet Movie Database

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
On the Waterfront (1954)
East of Eden (1955)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Spartacus (1960)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Cardinal (1963)
Becket (1964)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Love Story (1970)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
The Exorcist (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Rocky (1976)
The Turning Point (1977)
Midnight Express (1978)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Ordinary People (1980)
On Golden Pond (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Amadeus (1984)
Out of Africa (1985)
Platoon (1986)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Rain Man (1988)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Bugsy (1991)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Schindler's List (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
The English Patient (1996)
Titanic (1997)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
American Beauty (1999)
Gladiator (2000)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
The Hours (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Aviator (2004)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Babel (2006)
Atonement (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Avatar (2009)
The Social Network (2010)
The Descendants (2011)
Argo (2012)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Boyhood (2014)
The Revenant (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 53702514 LCCN: no00091056 ISNI: 0000 0000 6402 5056

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