---
name: "Howard Gertler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/howard-gertler"
fi1m_id: "howard-gertler"
imdb_id: "nm0314971"
tmdb_id: 25500
wikidata_id: "Q22115301"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T02:35:18.300188+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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# Howard Gertler

## Identity

Howard Gertler

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/howard-gertler
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** howard-gertler
- **IMDb ID:** nm0314971
- **TMDB ID:** 25500
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22115301
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Gertler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22115301, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314971/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25500

Producer. Born 1 January 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 2000
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Gertler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22115301, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314971/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25500

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*All the Beauty and the Bloodshed*](https://film.one/film/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed.md) (86)

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## Biography

Howard Gertler is an American film producer. While at Princeton University he interned at Good Machine and later served as head of production at Process Media from 2001 to 2011. He founded the production company Little Punk.

Gertler has produced narrative and documentary films including *Shortbus* (2006) and *How to Talk to Girls at Parties* (2017), both directed by John Cameron Mitchell; *World's Greatest Dad* (2009); *How to Survive a Plague* (2012); *Do I Sound Gay?* (2015); *Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution* (2020) as executive producer; and *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed* (2022). He has received two Academy Award nominations and a BAFTA nomination for his documentary work.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, paw.princeton.edu.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed* (2022), Fi1m 86, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus* (2025), Producer
- *Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed* (2022), Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed.md)
- *Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Adam* (2019), Producer
- *How to Talk to Girls at Parties* (2017), Producer
- *Do I Sound Gay?* (2015), Producer
- *Who Sounds Gay?* (2015), Producer
- *Seraph* (2013), Producer
- *How to Survive a Plague* (2012), Producer
- *Death Is Lame* (2011), Producer
- *World's Greatest Dad* (2009), Producer
- *Shortbus* (2006), Producer
- *Pizza* (2005), Producer
- *A Buck's Worth* (2005), Producer
- *The Best Thief in the World* (2004), Co-Producer
- *Trouble on the Corner* (1997), Assistant Production Coordinator
- *Untitled Olivia Newton-John Documentary*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2023: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed*

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

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