---
name: "Edward Saxon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edward-saxon"
fi1m_id: "edward-saxon"
imdb_id: "nm0768324"
tmdb_id: 16297
wikidata_id: "Q1293513"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "17 November 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T15:44:09.721910+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."
---

# Edward Saxon

## Identity

Edward Saxon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/edward-saxon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** edward-saxon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0768324
- **TMDB ID:** 16297
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1293513
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Saxon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1293513, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768324/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16297

Producer. Born 17 November 1956 in St. Louis.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 17 November 1956, St. Louis
- **Active:** 1986–2011
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 1 acting, 4 producing, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Jonathan Demme](https://film.one/person/jonathan-demme.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as producer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (1), 1990s 84 (2), 2000s 82 (2), 2010s 84 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 84 to 73 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 2, Crime 2, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $512m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Saxon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1293513, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768324/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16297

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Silence of the Lambs*](https://film.one/film/the-silence-of-the-lambs.md) (91), [*Adaptation.*](https://film.one/film/adaptation.md) (83)

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

## Biography

Edward Saxon is an American film producer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he was educated at McGill University, where he founded the Tuesday Night Cafe Theatre, and later at the Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

He was Jonathan Demme's producing partner on several films, including *Something Wild* (1986), *Married to the Mob* (1988), *The Silence of the Lambs* (1991) and *Philadelphia* (1993). Saxon produced *Adaptation.* (2002), *That Thing You Do!* (1996) and *Away We Go* (2009). He has also served as executive producer on films such as *Devil in a Blue Dress* (1995), *Fast Food Nation* (2006) and *Miami Blues* (1990).

Saxon is the endowed Chair of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. *The Silence of the Lambs* won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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

## On Fi1m (6)

### Performed in (1)

- *Something Wild* (1986), Fi1m 82, as Kevin Stroup — [page](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md)

### Produced (4) — the average rests on these

- *Enlightened* (2011), Fi1m 84, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/enlightened.md)
- *Adaptation.* (2002), Fi1m 83, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/adaptation.md)
- *Philadelphia* (1993), Fi1m 76, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/philadelphia.md)
- *The Silence of the Lambs* (1991), Fi1m 91, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-silence-of-the-lambs.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Where the Wild Things Are* (2009), Fi1m 80, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/where-the-wild-things-are.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

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

- *Monster: The Ed Gein Story* (2025), series, as Polygraph Technician
- *Elsa & Fred* (2014), Producer
- *Enlightened* (2011), series, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/enlightened.md)
- *Our Family Wedding* (2010), Producer
- *Where the Wild Things Are* (2009), Thanks — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/where-the-wild-things-are.md)
- *Away We Go* (2009), Producer
- *Fast Food Nation* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Adaptation.* (2002), Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/adaptation.md)
- *The Truth About Charlie* (2002), Producer
- *The Opportunists* (2000), Executive Producer
- *Storefront Hitchcock* (1998), Executive Producer
- *Beloved* (1998), Producer
- *Subway Stories* (1997), Executive Producer
- *Ulee's Gold* (1997), Executive Producer
- *Mandela* (1996), Producer
- *That Thing You Do!* (1996), Producer
- *Devil in a Blue Dress* (1995), Executive Producer
- *One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room* (1994), Executive Producer
- *The Ref* (1994), as Reporter
- *Philadelphia* (1993), Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/philadelphia.md)
- *Cousin Bobby* (1992), Producer
- *Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules* (1991), as Ad Man (segment 'A Domestic Dilemma') · Co-Producer
- *The Silence of the Lambs* (1991), as Benjamin Raspail (Head in a Jar) (uncredited) · Producer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/the-silence-of-the-lambs.md)
- *Miami Blues* (1990), as Krishna Ravindra · Executive Producer
- *Haiti: Dreams of Democracy* (1988), Executive Producer
- *Married to the Mob* (1988), Producer
- *Swimming to Cambodia* (1987), Associate Producer
- *Something Wild* (1986), as Kevin Stroup · Executive Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md)
- *Trisha Brown's Accumulation with Talking Plus Watermotor* (1986), Producer
- *Charlie Johnson in the Flames*, Producer
- *Zeitoun*, Producer
- *The Last of the Tribe*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1992: Best Picture (won), for *The Silence of the Lambs*

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

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