Dede Gardner

She is the daughter of Dorothy and John Gardner, of Winnetka, Illinois.[1] She graduated cum laude from Columbia College, Columbia University[1] in 1990.[3] Her father is a partner at the Chicago investment bank William Blair & Company; her mother is president of the Michael Reese Health Trust.[1]

In 2000, she married Jonathan Boris Berg in an Episcopalian ceremony on Martha's Vineyard.[1]

• Running with Scissors (2006)
• Year of the Dog (2007)
• A Mighty Heart (2007)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
• Pretty/Handsome (2008) – TV movie (executive producer)
• The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
• Eat, Pray, Love (2010)
• The Tree of Life (2011)
• Killing Them Softly (2012)
• World War Z (2013)
• 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• True Story (2014)
• Selma (2014)
• The Big Short (2015)
• The OA (TV) (2016)[4]
• The Lost City of Z (2016)
• Moonlight (2016)
• War Machine (2017)
• Beautiful Boy (2018)
• Vice (2018)
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
• Ad Astra (2019)
• The King (2019)
• Kajillionaire (2020)
• Minari (2020)
• Irresistible (2020)
• Lego Masters (Reality Competition TV) (2020)
• The Third Day (TV) (2020)
• The Underground Railroad (TV) (TBA)
• Blonde (TBA)

In 2012, Gardner and her fellow producers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Tree of Life.[5] In 2014, she won the Academy Award for Best Picture for the movie 12 Years a Slave alongside co-producers Brad Pitt, Steve McQueen, Jeremy Kleiner and Anthony Katagas. In 2015, she was nominated once again for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Selma alongside fellow producers Oprah Winfrey, Jeremy Kleiner, and Christian Colson. In 2017, she won her second Academy Award for Best Picture for the movie, Moonlight. She becomes the first female producer to win two Academy Awards for Best Picture.

• Dede Gardner at IMDb