Bill Gerber

Bill Gerber born April 30 1957 is an American film and television producer He was President of Production at Warner Bros Pictures before establishing an existing and longstanding producing deal with the studio He is known for producing A Star Is Born 2018 Gran Torino 2008 A Very Long Engagement 2004 and Grudge Match 2013 As an executive Gerber supervised many films which received 47 Academy Award nominations and 14 Academy Award wins The films include Good Fellas 1990 Reversal of Fortune 1990 JFK 1991 Unforgiven 1992 Heat 1995 Twister 1996 LA Confidential 1997 Youve Got Mail 1998 Three Kings 1999 The Iron Giant 1999 The Perfect Storm 2000 and the Harry Potter series Before joining Warner Bros Gerber was a partner at Lookout Management This premiere management company has represented classic rock artists such as Neil Young Joni Mitchell Tom Petty The Cars and Devo While at Lookout Management Gerber signed Heaven 17 ABC Scritti Politti and Paul Reubens Gerber also worked on various music videos and even appeared in the Andy Warholdirected music video Hello Again In 2019 Gerber received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture for A Star Is Born and a Golden Globe nomination for it In 2002 he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Made for Television Movie for James Dean James Franco was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Miniseries or Television Film and took home the award at the 58th Golden Globe Awards Gerber also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film for A Very Long Engagement in 2005 In 2020 he received a Sports Emmy for the HBO documentary series Whats My Name Muhammad Ali Most recently he produced Elizabeth Taylor The Lost Tapes which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024 Aside from working in entertainment Gerber has a strong interest in sustainability fitness and technology In 2007 he founded Sustainable Holdings with Kevin Wall combining their environmental and green business passions Gerber advises multiple companies such as Eventscom AnyQuestion ACTV8me and Dreamscape He is also an investor in several restaurants and food brands including Gracias Madre Gjusta and Barnana Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Gerber licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia