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Michael Shamberg

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Michael Shamberg is a movie and TV producer and Advisor to BuzzFeed Motion Pictures. He was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award for producing Erin Brockovich and The Big Chill. His other film credits include the science-based movies Contagion and Gattaca. Shamberg was an Executive Producer of Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained. His true story films include Freeheld, World Trade Center, and Man on the Moon. His other credits are eclectic including Out of Sight, Wish I Was Here, Get Shorty, Reality Bites, Garden State, Along Came Polly, The Skeleton Key, How High, A Walk Among the Tombstones, and A Fish Called Wanda. He was also an Executive Producer of the TV show Reno 911.

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Film Production

Director:
1971  Media Primer

Editor:
1971  Media Primer
1974  The Lord of the Universe

Executive Producer:
1971  Media Primer
1974  The Lord of the Universe
1994  Pulp Fiction
1998  The Pentagon Wars
2000  Drowning Mona
2004  Garden State
2012  Django Unchained
2015  Burnt
2017  Wetlands
2021  Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon
2022  Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist

Producer:
1971  Media Primer
1974  The Lord of the Universe
1980  Heart Beat
1982  Grace Jones: A One Man Show
1983  The Big Chill
1986  Club Paradise
1988  A Fish Called Wanda
1989  How I Got Into College
1994  8 Seconds
1994  Pulp Fiction
1994  Reality Bites
1995  Get Shorty
1996  Feeling Minnesota
1996  Matilda
1996  Sunset Park
1997  Fierce Creatures
1997  Gattaca
1998  Living Out Loud
1998  Out of Sight
1998  The Pentagon Wars
1999  Man on the Moon
2000  Drowning Mona
2000  Erin Brockovich
2001  How High
2001  The Caveman's Valentine
2003  Camp
2004  Along Came Polly
2004  Garden State
2005  Be Cool
2005  The Skeleton Key
2006  World Trade Center
2007  Freedom Writers
2007  Reno 911!: Miami
2010  Extraordinary Measures
2011  Contagion
2012  Django Unchained
2012  LOL
2013  Runner Runner
2014  A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014  Wish I Was Here
2015  Burnt
2015  Freeheld
2017  Wetlands
2019  Cold Pursuit
2021  Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon
2022  Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist

Thanks:
1971  Media Primer
1974  The Lord of the Universe
1979  Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall
1980  Heart Beat
1982  Grace Jones: A One Man Show
1983  The Big Chill
1986  Club Paradise
1988  A Fish Called Wanda
1989  How I Got Into College
1994  8 Seconds
1994  Pulp Fiction
1994  Reality Bites
1995  Get Shorty
1996  Feeling Minnesota
1996  Matilda
1996  Sunset Park
1997  Fierce Creatures
1997  Gattaca
1998  Living Out Loud
1998  Out of Sight
1998  The Pentagon Wars
1999  Man on the Moon
2000  Drowning Mona
2000  Erin Brockovich
2001  How High
2001  The Caveman's Valentine
2003  Camp
2004  Along Came Polly
2004  Garden State
2005  Be Cool
2005  The Skeleton Key
2006  World Trade Center
2007  Freedom Writers
2007  Reno 911!: Miami
2010  Extraordinary Measures
2011  Contagion
2012  Django Unchained
2012  LOL
2013  Runner Runner
2013  The Source Family
2014  A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014  Wish I Was Here
2015  Burnt
2015  Freeheld
2017  Wetlands
2019  Cold Pursuit
2021  Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon
2022  Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist

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TV Production

Executive Producer:
2003  Karen Sisco

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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.