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name: "Anthony Katagas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anthony-katagas"
fi1m_id: "anthony-katagas"
imdb_id: "nm0441097"
tmdb_id: 60187
wikidata_id: "Q16730623"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 8
updated: "2026-09-23T11:24:20.450671+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."
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# Anthony Katagas

## Identity

Anthony Katagas

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anthony-katagas
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anthony-katagas
- **IMDb ID:** nm0441097
- **TMDB ID:** 60187
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16730623
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Katagas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16730623, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0441097/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60187

Producer. Born 1 January 1971 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1971, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2000–present
- **Also known as:**  Anthony G. Katagas
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 2 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as producer, over 8 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (2), 2010s 80 (4), 2020s 74 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 76 across 8 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 6, Thriller 4, Comedy 2, Crime 2, Fantasy 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 16 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $742m across 8 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Katagas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16730623, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0441097/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60187

## Coming up

- *Paper Tiger* (2026-11-12), Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Good Fortune*](https://film.one/film/good-fortune.md) (66)

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

## Biography

Anthony Katagas is an American film producer. He graduated from Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he studied government. In 1999 he founded Keep Your Head Productions in New York City to develop independent films.

Katagas has produced or served as unit production manager on numerous features, including *Lost in Translation* (2003), *The Next Three Days* (2010), *Killing Them Softly* (2012), *12 Years a Slave* (2013), *The Immigrant* (2013), *Nerve* (2016), *The Lost City of Z* (2017), *Ad Astra* (2019), *Uncut Gems* (2019), *The Trial of the Chicago 7* (2020) and *Good Fortune* (2025). He won the Academy Award for Best Picture for *12 Years a Slave* and has received BAFTA, Golden Globe and Producers Guild of America awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (8)

- *Good Fortune* (2025), Fi1m 66, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/good-fortune.md)
- *Marty Supreme* (2025), Fi1m 82, Unit Production Manager, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/marty-supreme.md)
- *Ad Astra* (2019), Fi1m 78, Unit Production Manager, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/ad-astra.md)
- *Uncut Gems* (2019), Fi1m 85, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/uncut-gems.md)
- *12 Years a Slave* (2013), Fi1m 91, Unit Production Manager, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/12-years-a-slave.md)
- *Killing Them Softly* (2012), Fi1m 68, Producer, Unit Production Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/killing-them-softly.md)
- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Fi1m 86, Production Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)
- *Hamlet* (2000), Fi1m 68, Production Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/hamlet-2000.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

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

- *Paper Tiger* (2026), Producer
- *Company* (2026), Producer
- *Marty Supreme* (2025), Producer, Unit Production Manager — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/marty-supreme.md)
- *Good Fortune* (2025), Producer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/good-fortune.md)
- *Mr. & Mrs. Smith* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *Armageddon Time* (2022), Producer
- *Amsterdam* (2022), Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *Deep Water* (2022), Unit Production Manager, Producer
- *Worth* (2021), Producer
- *The Trial of the Chicago 7* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Uncut Gems* (2019), Executive Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/uncut-gems.md)
- *Ad Astra* (2019), Producer, Unit Production Manager — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/ad-astra.md)
- *Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House* (2017), Producer
- *The Lost City of Z* (2017), Unit Production Manager, Producer
- *Nerve* (2016), Producer
- *Triple 9* (2016), Unit Production Manager, Producer
- *True Story* (2015), Producer
- *Unfinished Business* (2015), Unit Production Manager, Producer
- *Cymbeline* (2014), Producer
- *The Immigrant* (2013), Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *12 Years a Slave* (2013), Producer, Unit Production Manager — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/12-years-a-slave.md)
- *The Big Wedding* (2013), Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *Killing Them Softly* (2012), Unit Production Manager, Producer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/killing-them-softly.md)
- *Abduction* (2011), Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *The Next Three Days* (2010), Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *My Soul to Take* (2010), Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *Did You Hear About the Morgans?* (2009), Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa* (2008), Producer
- *Two Lovers* (2008), Unit Production Manager, Producer
- *College Road Trip* (2008), Executive Producer
- *The Accidental Husband* (2008), Executive Producer
- *We Own the Night* (2007), Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *The Life Before Her Eyes* (2007), Producer
- *Blackbird* (2007), as Close
- *The Ex* (2006), Line Producer
- *The Hoax* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Winter Passing* (2006), Producer
- *Prime* (2005), Co-Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *William Eggleston in the Real World* (2005), Producer
- *Homework* (2004), Producer
- *Chrystal* (2004), Co-Producer
- *Second Best* (2004), Producer
- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Production Supervisor — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)
- *This So-Called Disaster* (2003), Producer
- *Happy Here and Now* (2002), Producer
- *The Next Big Thing* (2001), as Gallery Guy 1 · Co-Producer
- *3 A.M.* (2001), Co-Producer, Production Manager
- *In the Weeds* (2000), Co-Producer
- *Hamlet* (2000), Production Manager — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/hamlet-2000.md)
- *Long Time Since* (1998), Stunt Kidnapper, Second Second Assistant Director
- *Zero K*, Producer
- *The Maneken*, Producer
- *Deep Cuts*, Producer
- *The Bookie & the Bruiser*, Producer
- *Mayday 109*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Anthony Katagas](https://film.one/media/person/303338/gallery-003c8af0c70e.jpg) Anthony Katagas — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/2025_Anthony_Katagas_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-2025_Anthony_Katagas_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Anthony Katagas on the red carpet during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/303338/gallery-423d839a42f1.jpg) Anthony Katagas on the red carpet during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Anthony_Katagas_at_TIFF_2025_01.jpg/1280px-Anthony_Katagas_at_TIFF_2025_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Anthony Katagas on the red carpet during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/303338/gallery-2ffe751e5cee.jpg) Anthony Katagas on the red carpet during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Anthony_Katagas_at_TIFF_2025_02.jpg/1280px-Anthony_Katagas_at_TIFF_2025_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- 2027: Best Picture (nominated), for *Marty Supreme*
- 2026: Best Picture (nominated), for *Marty Supreme*
- 2014: Best Picture (won), for *12 Years a Slave*

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

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