Scott Rudin

​Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958) is an American film and theatrical producer.

He started working as an assistant to theater producer Kermit Bloomgarden at the age of sixteen. Later, he worked for producers Robert Whitehead and Emanuel Azenberg. Rudin ended up starting his own company after he took a job as a casting agent In lieu of attending college. In 1980, Rudin moved to Los Angeles, taking up employment at Edgar J. Scherick Associates, where he served as producer on a variety of films including I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1981), the NBC miniseries Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982) and the Oscar-winning documentary He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983). Rudin later formed his own business, Scott Rudin Productions. His first film under that banner was Gillian Armstrong's Mrs. Soffel (1984). But, not long after, Rudin joined 20th Century-Fox as an executive producer. At Fox, he met Jonathan Dolgen, a higher-level executive, with whom he would be working once again at Paramount Pictures years later. Rudin swiftly rose through the ranks at Fox and became president of production by 1986 at the age of 29. His stint at the top of Fox was short lived though, and he soon left and entered into a producing deal with Paramount. 

In early 2021, The Hollywood Reporter published a story covering a long term pattern of abusive behavior from Rudin, based on statements from former employees. In the article, he was accused of physical abuse, including smashing a computer monitor on the hand of an assistant and throwing objects at employees. Following this, Rudin announced he would be stepping away from a number of film, television, and Broadway projects he was involved in. His business relationship with A24 was also ended during this time.

Rudin lives in New York City with his husband John Barlow, a Broadway theatre publicist and former owner of Barlow/Hartman Public Relations.

The Truman Show

8.1

The Grand Budapest Hotel

8.0

Ex Machina

7.6

The Social Network

7.4

No Country for Old Men

7.9

Annihilation

6.4

Lady Bird

7.3

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

7.4

Captain Phillips

7.5

Sleepy Hollow

7.2

There Will Be Blood

8.1

The Dictator

6.2

Moonrise Kingdom

7.7

School of Rock

7.1

Fantastic Mr. Fox

7.8

True Grit

7.3

Moneyball

7.3

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

6.8

Isle of Dogs

7.9

Uncut Gems

7.2

The Addams Family

7.1

The Royal Tenenbaums

7.5

Zoolander

6.2

Clueless

7.3

The Village

6.5

Steve Jobs

6.8

Revolutionary Road

7.0

The Darjeeling Limited

7.2

Closer

6.8

Sister Act

6.8

Addams Family Values

7.0

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

7.1

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

7.3

Inside Llewyn Davis

7.2

Fences

6.9

Inherent Vice

6.6

Zoolander 2

4.9

Julie & Julia

6.7

The Other Boleyn Girl

6.7

Aloha

5.5

The Firm

6.7

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

7.0

The Woman in the Window

6.0

Ransom

6.7

Team America: World Police

6.7

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

6.4

The Hours

7.3

Doubt

7.2

Failure to Launch

5.8

Frances Ha

7.4

mid90s

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The Way Back

7.0

The Manchurian Candidate

6.5

Flatliners

6.5

Eighth Grade

7.2

It's Complicated

6.5

The Girl in the Spider's Web

6.1

The Stepford Wives

5.7

The Queen

6.9

Shaft

6.0

22 July

7.1

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

6.5

Changing Lanes

6.3

While We're Young

6.0

Bringing Out the Dead

6.6

Game Over, Man!

5.5

Notes on a Scandal

7.1

What We Do in the Shadows

8.0

The First Wives Club

6.7

Rules of Engagement

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In & Out

6.5

I ♥ Huckabees

6.3

Devs

7.3

Sabrina

6.2

The Newsroom

8.1

Wonder Boys

6.8

Marvin's Room

6.7

Regarding Henry

6.5

Searching for Bobby Fischer

7.1

Greenberg

5.9

Mistress America

6.5

First Cow

7.1

Orange County

6.0

I.Q.

6.0

Top Five

6.1

A Civil Action

6.5

Pacific Heights

6.3

Jennifer Eight

6.0

Freedomland

5.2

Angela's Ashes

7.3

Nobody's Fool

6.9

Little Man Tate

6.6

Margaret

6.3

Page Eight

6.6

Margot at the Wedding

5.8

Stop-Loss

6.1

Reprise

7.1

The Wanderers

7.0

Iris

6.4

Twilight

6.1

Rosewater

6.5

White Sands

5.9

De Palma

7.0

Venus

6.6

Life with Mikey

5.7

Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive

6.9

The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter

5.1

Dispatches from Elsewhere

6.7

Share

5.4

Mother

6.6

Console Wars

7.1

Goldman v Silverman

6.3

Last Embrace

5.5

Five Came Back

7.2

Marci X

3.5

Mrs. Soffel

6.1

Five Came Back

7.9

Resurrection

6.5

Wild Tigers I Have Known

5.8

The Lathe of Heaven

6.8

Reckless

5.8

Simon

6.2

King of the Gypsies

5.6

Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...

7.5

Step

7.5

My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres

7.0

Hide in Plain Sight

5.3

First Wives Club

8.5

Revenge of the Stepford Wives

5.4

Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

8.1

He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'

5.4

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

6.8

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

6.0

Sanctuary of Fear

6.0