Early life

Rudin was born and raised in the town of Baldwin, New York, on Long Island. He was born into a Jewish family.

Career

At the age of 16, he started working as an assistant to theatre producer Kermit Bloomgarden. Later, he worked for producers Robert Whitehead and Emanuel Azenberg. In lieu of attending college, Rudin took a job as a casting director and ended up starting his own company. His newly minted firm cast numerous Broadway shows, including Annie (1977) for Mike Nichols. He also cast PBS's Verna: USO Girl (1978), starring Sissy Spacek and William Hurt; and "The Scarlet Letter" mini-series (1979) starring Meg Foster, Kevin Conway and John Heard; also, the films King of the Gypsies (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Simon (1980) with Alan Arkin and Resurrection (1980).

Producer

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 then formed his own company, Scott Rudin Productions. His first film under that banner was Gillian Armstrong's Mrs. Soffel (1984). Not long after, Rudin placed his production shingle in dormancy and 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 rose through the ranks at Fox and became president of production by 1986 at the age of 29.

Paramount

His stint at the top of Fox was short lived, and he soon left and entered into a producing deal with Paramount. On August 1, 1992, Rudin signed a deal with Tri-Star Pictures but soon moved back to Paramount. Rudin's first look deal with Paramount Pictures lasted nearly 15 years, producing pictures including Addams Family Values.

After the resignation of Paramount's chairwoman Sherry Lansing in 2004 and nearly simultaneous departure of Jonathan Dolgen (then president of the company), Rudin left the studio and set a five-year first-look pact with Disney that allowed him to make movies under their labels Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, and Miramax Films, whose founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein had departed. Previously, Harvey Weinstein and Rudin had public confrontations during the production of The Hours (2002), which Rudin produced for Miramax Films after it became a studio subsidiary under Disney. Rudin later said he and Weinstein "are both control freaks. We both want to run our own shows. When I'm doing a Miramax movie, I work for him. And I don't like that feeling. I chafe under that. I especially chafe under it when I feel that I'm on a leash."

Theater

Rudin co-produced the unsuccessful staging of David Henry Hwang's Face Value with Stuart Ostrow and Jujamcyn Theaters. He started a deal with Jujamcyn to develop and produce new plays for the theater chain. In 1994, Rudin won the Best Musical Tony Award for his production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion. The following year, he, along with others, produced Kathleen Turner's Broadway comeback, Indiscretions, and Ralph Fiennes' New York theatre debut in Hamlet. In 1996, Rudin produced the revival of the Stephen Sondheim and Larry Gelbart musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which starred Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella and Mark Linn-Baker.

He also produced The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, Seven Guitars, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Copenhagen, Deuce, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The History Boys, Beckett/Albee, Closer, The Blue Room, and Doubt. In 2010, he co-produced, along with Carole Shorenstein Hays, the Broadway revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, which garnered ten Tony Award nominations and three wins, including Best Revival of a Play. He has won five Tonys and five Drama Desk Awards for his productions.

Rudin is the lead producer for the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, which opened in March 2011 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre and won nine Tony Awards including best musical, and also a Grammy Award for Best Musical Album.

In 2015, it was announced that Rudin would produce Groundhog Day, a musical adaptation of the film Groundhog Day, originally starring Bill Murray. Tim Minchin, who penned the award-winning adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, will write the music and lyrics. Danny Rubin, who co-wrote the screenplay for Groundhog Day along with Harold Ramis, will be writing the story. Groundhog Day will open on 9 March 2017.

Sony Pictures Entertainment hack

Main article: Sony Pictures Entertainment hack

On December 9, 2014, a major illegal breach of Sony's computer systems by "Guardians of Peace" hackers using Shamoon malware led to disclosure of many gigabytes of stolen information, including internal company documents. In subsequent news coverage SPE Co-Chair Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin were noted to have had an email exchange about Pascal's upcoming encounter with President Barack Obama that included characterizations described as racist. Both he and Pascal later apologized.

The two had suggested they should mention films about African-Americans upon meeting the president, such as Django Unchained, 12 Years a Slave, The Butler, and Amistad which all discuss slavery in the United States or the pre-civil rights era. In the e-mail thread, Rudin added, "I bet he likes Kevin Hart." Rudin later said that the e-mails were "private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity." He added that he was "profoundly and deeply sorry."

Criticism

Rudin is widely considered to be one of the more demanding bosses in the entertainment industry. John Gregory Dunne wrote about his abusive treatment of subordinates. In a 2008 interview with NPR's All Things Considered, Rudin acknowledged having a temper, but said he has grown up.

Honors

In January 2008, two of Rudin's productions—the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men, which they adapted from the Cormac McCarthy book of the same name, and Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, which was adapted from the Upton Sinclair novel, Oil!—were nominated for eight Oscars apiece at the 2008 Academy Awards, including a Best Picture nod for each of them. The two films shared the distinction of being the most nominated movie at that year's Oscar ceremony. Ultimately, No Country for Old Men won the Best Picture prize.

At the 2011 Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards, Rudin became the only person ever to be nominated twice in one year. He was nominated (along with Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin and Michael De Luca) for producing the Facebook biographical film The Social Network and was also nominated (along with Joel and Ethan Coen) for their remake of the classic western True Grit (2010). That same year, the PGA also awarded Rudin the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Motion Pictures which recognizes an individual's outstanding body of work in the field of motion picture production.

Filmography

Year	Title	Credit
1982	I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can	producer
1984	Reckless	producer
	Mrs. Soffel	producer
1990	Flatliners	executive producer
	Pacific Heights	producer
1991	Regarding Henry	producer
	Little Man Tate	producer
	The Addams Family	producer
1992	White Sands	producer
	Jennifer Eight	executive producer
1993	Life with Mikey	producer
	The Firm	producer
	Searching for Bobby Fischer	producer
	Addams Family Values	producer
	Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit	producer
1994	I.Q.	executive producer
1995	Nobody's Fool	producer
	Clueless	producer
	Sabrina	producer
1996	The First Wives Club	producer
	Ransom	producer
	Marvin's Room	producer
	Mother	producer
1997	In & Out	producer
1998	Twilight	producer
	The Truman Show	producer
	A Civil Action	producer
1999	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	executive producer
	Bringing Out the Dead	producer
	Sleepy Hollow	producer
	Angela's Ashes	producer
2000	Wonder Boys	producer
	Rules of Engagement	producer
	Shaft	producer
2001	Zoolander	producer
	The Royal Tenenbaums	producer
	Iris	producer
2002	Orange County	producer
	Changing Lanes	producer
	The Hours	producer
2003	Marci X	producer
	School of Rock	producer
2004	The Stepford Wives	producer
	The Manchurian Candidate	producer
	The Village	producer
	I Heart Huckabees	producer
	Team America: World Police	producer
	Closer	producer
	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	executive producer
	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	producer
2006	Wild Tigers I Have Known	producer
	Freedomland	producer
	Failure to Launch	producer
	The Queen	executive producer
	Venus	executive producer
	Reprise	executive producer
	Notes on a Scandal	producer
2007	No Country for Old Men	producer
	The Darjeeling Limited	producer
	Margot at the Wedding	producer
	There Will Be Blood	producer
2008	The Other Boleyn Girl	executive producer
	Stop-Loss	producer
	Doubt	producer
	Revolutionary Road	producer
2009	Julie & Julia	executive producer
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	producer
	It's Complicated	producer
2010	Greenberg	producer
	The Way Back	executive producer
	The Social Network	producer
	True Grit	producer
2011	Margaret	producer
	Moneyball	producer
	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	producer
	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	producer
2012	The Dictator	producer
	Moonrise Kingdom	producer
	Frances Ha	producer
2013	Captain Phillips	producer
	Inside Llewyn Davis	producer
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	producer
	Rosewater	producer
	Top Five	producer
2015	While We're Young	producer
	Ex Machina	executive producer
	Aloha	producer
	Steve Jobs	producer
2016	Zoolander 2	producer
	Fences	producer
2017	Yeh Din Ka Kissa	producer
	Annihilation	producer

[ Source: Wikipedia ]