Tamala Jones, Margaret O'Brien, Edward Saxon and More Set for 2014 HOLLYWOOD NETWORKING BREAKFAST Today
By: BWW News Desk Feb. 27, 2014
- Seating at VIP Head Table with Breakfast Guest Speaker of Selected Breakfast
- Red Carpet Photo with Guest Speaker of Selected Breakfast on Step-and-Repeat
- Priority Consideration for Private Meeting with a Participating Breakfast Speaker
- VIP On-Lot Parking on Day of Selected Breakfast Come to the event and witness a Q&A and have breakfast with Academy Award-winning producer, Edward Saxon, who's been making critically-acclaimed, successful box office feature films for 25 years. As principal of his own independent production company, he has developed and produced films with FOX UNIVERSAL, WARNER BROTHERS, COLUMBIA, PARAMOUNT, and Disney STUDIOS. Saxon also works with numerous Independent financiers and distributors, including a multi-year pact with participant media (Lincoln, North Country), one of the leading independent distribution companies in the film market. Saxon's films combined have grossed over $700M at the box office worldwide and garnered 21 nominations and 8 Academy Awards. Saxon won his first Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs which swept Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards categories in the same year -- and to date remains one of only three films in the history of American cinema to achieve the distinction. Saxon has also produced: Philadelphia, garnering two Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Tom Hanks). Adaptation, which was nominated for 4 Academy Awards; and the Academy Award-nominated documentary Mandela, based on the true life story of Nelson Mandela in which he stars along with former wife Winnie Mandela. Other titles include: Our Family Wedding, Fast Food Nation, Ulee's Gold, Beloved and the HBO Series Enlightened. Saxon has been a member of the Academy since 1991. He has worked with such talent as Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Spike Jones, Jodi Foster, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Demme, Shirley Maclaine, and Christopher Plummer, among others.
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A partial list of esteemed speakers includes, Ron Meyer, Craig Zadan & Neil Meron, Stan Lee, Wes Craven, Garry Marshall, Penny Marshall, Henry Winkler, John Singleton, Lynda Obst, Eric McLeod, Debra Martin Chase, Mike Medavoy, Reuben Cannon, Anthony Zuiker, David E. Kelley, John Sacret Young, Simon Kinberg, James Burrows, Ron Schwary, John Lee Hancock, Mario Van Peebles, among many others. HBN was founded on the Paramount Studios Lot in 1993 by Sandra Lord, as a means to providing opportunities for industry professionals and emerging talent. Some of the most respected individuals, both in front of the camera and behind the scenes, have offered patrons insight and advise. For the last 19 years the event has hosted Academy, Golden Globe, Peabody and Emmy Award winners and nominees, as well as top Hollywood Studio Heads and Production Company Presidents. HNB benefits Changing Images in America (www.ChangingImagesInAmerica.org).
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