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name: "Bruce Cohen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bruce-cohen"
fi1m_id: "bruce-cohen"
imdb_id: "nm0169260"
tmdb_id: 8215
wikidata_id: "Q543498"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "23 September 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 8
updated: "2026-10-16T04:04:15.299496+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."
---

# Bruce Cohen

## Identity

Bruce Cohen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bruce-cohen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bruce-cohen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0169260
- **TMDB ID:** 8215
- **Wikidata ID:** Q543498
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cohen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q543498, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169260/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8215

Producer. Born 23 September 1961 in Falls Church, Virginia, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 23 September 1961, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
- **Active:** 1991–present
- **Also known as:** Bruce L. Cohen
- **Frequently works with:** [Dan Jinks](https://film.one/person/dan-jinks.md), [Dustin Lance Black](https://film.one/person/dustin-lance-black.md), [Ewan McGregor](https://film.one/person/ewan-mcgregor.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 2 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as producer, over 8 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 66 (2), 2000s 81 (3), 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 66 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 69 across 8 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 6, Adventure 2, Comedy 2, Fantasy 2, History 2, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 14 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,118m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cohen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q543498, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169260/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8215

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Silver Linings Playbook*](https://film.one/film/silver-linings-playbook.md) (80)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Big Fish*](https://film.one/film/big-fish.md) (78)
- **Netflix:** [*Rustin*](https://film.one/film/rustin.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Bruce L. Cohen is a film, television and theatre producer. Born on 23 September 1961 in Falls Church, Virginia, he graduated from Yale University with a BA in Film Studies in 1983. He began his career as a Directors Guild of America trainee on Steven Spielberg's *The Color Purple* (1985) and later worked as first assistant director and associate producer on *Hook* (1991).

Cohen's film credits as producer include *The Flintstones* (1994), *MouseHunt* (1997), *American Beauty* (1999), *Big Fish* (2003), *Milk* (2008), *Silver Linings Playbook* (2012) and *Blink Twice* (2024). He won the Academy Award for Best Picture for *American Beauty* and received further nominations in the category for *Milk* and *Silver Linings Playbook*. He has also produced for television and received a National Medal of Arts in 2023.

In theatre, Cohen co-produced the Broadway productions of *Big Fish*, *Slave Play* and *The Inheritance*, the last of which won the Tony Award for Best Play. He is married to Gabriel Catone.

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

## On Fi1m (8)

- *Blink Twice* (2024), Fi1m 64, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/blink-twice.md)
- *Rustin* (2023), Fi1m 68, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/rustin.md)
- *Silver Linings Playbook* (2012), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/silver-linings-playbook.md)
- *Milk* (2008), Fi1m 83, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/milk.md)
- *Pushing Daisies* (2007), Fi1m 82, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/pushing-daisies.md)
- *Big Fish* (2003), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/big-fish.md)
- *American Beauty* (1999), Fi1m 76, as Bartender (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/american-beauty.md)
- *Hook* (1991), Fi1m 56, First Assistant Director, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hook.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

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

- *Reclaim the Flag* (2025), Producer
- *The Path Forward* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Blink Twice* (2024), Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/blink-twice.md)
- *The Great Lillian Hall* (2024), Producer
- *Ex-Husbands* (2024), Producer
- *Rustin* (2023), Producer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/rustin.md)
- *Wig* (2019), Producer
- *Rebel in the Rye* (2017), Producer
- *When We Rise* (2017), series, Executive Producer
- *Bleed for This* (2016), Producer
- *Silver Linings Playbook* (2012), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/silver-linings-playbook.md)
- *8* (2012), Executive Producer
- *The American Tetralogy* (2012), Producer
- *Milk* (2008), Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/milk.md)
- *A Timeless Call* (2008), Producer
- *Pushing Daisies* (2007), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/pushing-daisies.md)
- *Side Order of Life* (2007), series, Producer
- *Traveler* (2007), series, Producer
- *The Nines* (2007), Producer
- *The Forgotten* (2004), Producer
- *Big Fish* (2003), Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/big-fish.md)
- *Down with Love* (2003), Producer
- *The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas* (2000), Producer, Second Unit Director
- *American Beauty* (1999), as Bartender (uncredited) · Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/american-beauty.md)
- *MouseHunt* (1997), Producer
- *Mistrial* (1996), Producer
- *To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar* (1995), Executive Producer
- *The Flintstones* (1994), Producer
- *Alive: 20 Years Later* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Alive* (1993), Co-Producer
- *Hook* (1991), First Assistant Director, Associate Producer — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/hook.md)
- *Arachnophobia* (1990), First Assistant Director
- *The Fulfillment of Mary Gray* (1989), Second Assistant Director
- *The Oscars* (1953), series, Producer
- *Useful Idiots*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Bruce Cohen](https://film.one/media/person/11090/gallery-791437debd62.jpg) Bruce Cohen — Greg Hernandez (Greg in Hollywood), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Bruce_Cohen.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![American film producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/11090/gallery-250d4db4462a.jpg) American film producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (2009) — RealTVfilms, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Bruce_Cohen_and_Dan_Jinks_on_RealTVfilms.jpg/1280px-Bruce_Cohen_and_Dan_Jinks_on_RealTVfilms.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- 2013: Best Picture (nominated), for *Silver Linings Playbook*
- 2009: Best Picture (nominated), for *Milk*
- 2000: Best Picture (won), for *American Beauty*

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

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