Jerry Bruckheimer

Jerome Leon Bruckheimer born September 21 1943 is an American film and television producer He has been active in action drama comedy fantasy horror and science fiction After working in advertising from college Bruckheimer moved into film production in the 1970s In the 1980s and 1990s he partnered with fellow producer Don Simpson Bruckheimer and Simpsons partnership continued until Simpson died in 1996 Bruckheimer has produced films including Flashdance The Rock Crimson Tide Dangerous Minds Con Air Armageddon Enemy of the State Pearl Harbor Black Hawk Down as well as the Beverly Hills Cop Top Gun Bad Boys Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure franchises  At the helm of his selftitled production company he has produced films distributed by numerous film studios such as Paramount Pictures Sony Pictures and Disney At the same time  Warner Bros Television and CBS Studios have coproduced his television works In July 2003 Bruckheimer was honoured by Variety as the first in Hollywood history to produce the first and secondhighestgrossing films of a single weekend Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl and Bad Boys II In 2023 Top Gun Maverick earned him a nomination for Best Picture at the 95th Academy Awards His bestknown television series are television dramas CSI Crime Scene Investigation CSI Miami CSI NY CSI Cyber Without a Trace Cold Case Lucifer and reality competition series The Amazing Race which would spawn a franchise with international versions For the latter he won ten Primetime Emmy Awards In 2003 three of his television productionsCSI Crime Scene Investigation Without a Trace and CSI Miamiranked among the top ten in the US ratings making him the first producer to achieve this Bruckheimer is also the cofounder with the late David Bonderman and majority owner of the Seattle Kraken the 2021 National Hockey League expansion team Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerry Bruckheimer licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia