---
name: "Albert Berger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/albert-berger"
fi1m_id: "albert-berger"
imdb_id: "nm0074100"
tmdb_id: 17172
wikidata_id: "Q15782026"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-03T04:05:15.072173+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Albert Berger

## Identity

Albert Berger

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/albert-berger
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** albert-berger
- **IMDb ID:** nm0074100
- **TMDB ID:** 17172
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15782026
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Berger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15782026, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0074100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17172

Producer. Born 1 January 2000 in Chicago.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 2000, Chicago
- **Active:** 1993–2018
- **Frequently works with:** [Ron Yerxa](https://film.one/person/ron-yerxa.md), [Alexander Payne](https://film.one/person/alexander-payne.md), [Jim Taylor](https://film.one/person/jim-taylor.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as producer, over 7 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 85 (2), 2000s 78 (2), 2010s 80 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 73 across 7 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 7, Comedy 3, Romance 2, Adventure 1, History 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $159m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Berger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15782026, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0074100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17172

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Election*](https://film.one/film/election.md) (86)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Little Children*](https://film.one/film/little-children.md) (77)
- **Pluto TV:** [*Juliet, Naked*](https://film.one/film/juliet-naked.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Albert Berger is an American film and television producer. He formed Bona Fide Productions with Ron Yerxa in 1993. Their credits include the feature films *King of the Hill* (1993), *Election* (1999), *Cold Mountain* (2003), *Little Children* (2006), *Little Miss Sunshine* (2006), *Ruby Sparks* (2012), *Nebraska* (2013) and *The Peanut Butter Falcon* (2019).

Berger attended Tufts University and received an MFA in film from Columbia University in 1983. He previously worked as vice president of development for Marvin Worth Productions at Paramount Pictures. Berger and Yerxa were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for *Nebraska* and served as co-executive producers on the HBO series *The Leftovers* (2014–2017).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, web.archive.org, commencement.columbia.edu.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Juliet, Naked* (2018), Fi1m 70, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/juliet-naked.md)
- *The Leftovers* (2014), Fi1m 87, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-leftovers.md)
- *Nebraska* (2013), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/nebraska.md)
- *Little Children* (2006), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/little-children.md)
- *Little Miss Sunshine* (2006), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/little-miss-sunshine.md)
- *Election* (1999), Fi1m 86, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/election.md)
- *King of the Hill* (1993), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/king-of-the-hill.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Everybody Digs Bill Evans* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Somewhere in Queens* (2023), Producer
- *Stranger at the Gate* (2022), Thanks
- *The Last Shift* (2020), Producer
- *The Peanut Butter Falcon* (2019), Producer
- *Blow the Man Down* (2019), Executive Producer
- *What They Had* (2018), Producer
- *Juliet, Naked* (2018), Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/juliet-naked.md)
- *The Only Living Boy in New York* (2017), Producer
- *Louder Than Bombs* (2015), Producer
- *The Leftovers* (2014), series, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-leftovers.md)
- *Low Down* (2014), Producer
- *Nebraska* (2013), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/nebraska.md)
- *Charlie Countryman* (2013), Producer
- *We Made This Movie* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Ruby Sparks* (2012), Producer
- *Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm* (2010), Executive Producer
- *The Switch* (2010), Producer
- *Hamlet 2* (2008), Executive Producer
- *Little Children* (2006), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/little-children.md)
- *Little Miss Sunshine* (2006), Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/little-miss-sunshine.md)
- *The Ice Harvest* (2005), Producer
- *Bee Season* (2005), Producer
- *The Bug Man* (2003), Thanks
- *Pumpkin* (2002), Producer
- *The Wood* (1999), Producer
- *Election* (1999), Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/election.md)
- *The Spree* (1998), Executive Producer
- *King of the Hill* (1993), Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/king-of-the-hill.md)
- *Hate to See You Go*, Executive Producer
- *Last Days of Basic Cable*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2014: Best Picture (nominated), for *Nebraska*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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