- Lucy Fisher is an award-winning motion picture producer and Co-Chair of Red Wagon Entertainment. Her iconic films include Gladiator II, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, and Denzel Washington, and international blockbusters The Great Gatsby, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio, and earned two Academy Awards, Memoirs of a Geisha, which garnered three Academy Awards, and The Divergent Series.
Throughout her previous career as a studio executive, Fisher led global film studios to record-breaking box-office successes and united the industry through her trailblazing guild leadership. During her tenure as Vice Chairman of the Columbia Tri-Star Motion Picture Group at Sony, the studio broke all-time industry records for biggest domestic and worldwide grosses with films she supervised including Men In Black, My Best Friend's Wedding, Air Force One, Jerry MacGuire, As Good As It Gets and Stuart Little. She also served two terms as President of the Producers Guild of America, leading over 8500 members, and continues to serve as the guild's President Emeritus.
After leaving the executive suite, Fisher partnered with Oscar®-winning producer Douglas Wick (Gladiator, Working Girl), and together they have produced a wide range of critically acclaimed and popular movies including Jarhead, Lawless, RV, Bewitched, and Stuart Little 2. After expanding their company to include television, Fisher served as Executive Producer on the series Joe Pickett.
Before moving to Sony, Fisher served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Production at Warner Bros. for 14 years where she developed and supervised a diverse range of films including The Fugitive, The Color Purple, Gremlins, The Goonies, Malcolm X, Space Jam, Empire of the Sun, The Outsiders, The Bridges of Madison County, Twister, and Witches of Eastwick. She was also instrumental in Warner Bros. picking up the rights to Michael Moore's first feature, Roger and Me.
Fisher previously served as Vice President of Production at Twentieth Century Fox before being tapped as Head of Worldwide Production for Francis Coppola's Zoetrope Studios at age 30. In addition to her creative achievements, Fisher is widely considered a pioneer for women and working mothers in the entertainment industry. She was the driving force behind the on-site Warner Bros. Studio Children's Center, which has provided care for over 3000 children since its founding and served as the leading model for studio daycare centers across the industry.
Her many awards include The Producers Guild of America's David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, two Crystal Awards from Women in Film, The Hollywood Film Festival "Producer of the Year" Award, The, the Hollywood Award for Outstanding Achievement in Producing, Premiere Magazine's Icon Award, as well as the Friends of Cancer Research Advocacy's "Lifetime Achievement Award." She has been listed as one of Fortune Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business.
After their youngest daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, Fisher and Wick co-founded CuresNow, an organization to promote regenerative medicine. Along with Wick, she served as Co-Chair of Proposition 71, the successful Stem Cell initiative in California, which has since become the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and has awarded $3 billion in grants for regenerative medicine and research in California. She currently serves on the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Board of Advisors.
A cum laude graduate of Harvard, Fisher served on the Harvard University Board of Overseers and as its Vice Chairman. She founded the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist program at the Harvard Office of the Arts and served on the Harvard Medical School's Advisory Council on Education.
Fisher is married to her producing partner Doug Wick, and together they have 3 daughters.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Lucy Fisher
- SpouseDouglas Wick(1986 - present)
- Children
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Ranked #66 in Premiere's 2002 annual Power 100 List with producing partner Douglas Wick. They had ranked #70 in 2001.
- Executive Vice President of Worldwide Production at Warner Bros. (1981-1995). Vice Chairman at Columbia TriStar/Sony (1995-2000). After that, she founded, along with her husband Douglas Wick their own company Red Wagon Entertainment.
- Graduated from Harvard University.
- I'd say there's two parts that are the most exciting for me personally [about filmmaking]. One part is when you're in the room putting it together, at a certain stage, there's a group of people and the sum is so much greater than each part; when you feel like it's a smart room and feel like the idea is getting enhanced minute by minute. It's geometrically getting better as the costume designer says, "What about this?" And the director says, "What about that?" And the actor says, "Well, what about this?" And the producer says, "What about this?" And all of it gels.
For me, that's the best possible thing, when you sort of say, "I could never have done this on my own and none of us could have. It took everybody." Obviously, the director is the leader, but it took everybody's insight and everybody's point of view and everybody's specialty to be at their peak for it to be good. So that's the part that, as a producer, you can control a little bit of, and that I find the most fulfilling -- just watching something get better.
And then there's a moment where you actually sit in the dark room and it works, and it's so much better than you ever could have hoped for. It's a very rare pleasure to experience that. ...
Or you'll be sitting in the theater and hear an audience member that you don't know saying, "I want to go to the bathroom so bad, but I can't leave." That's when you know you did your job right and you feel really, really great.
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