---
name: "John Lesher"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-lesher"
fi1m_id: "john-lesher"
imdb_id: "nm0971956"
tmdb_id: 1095253
wikidata_id: "Q19359563"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "12 May 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-19T04:29:51.120607+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."
---

# John Lesher

## Identity

John Lesher

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-lesher
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-lesher
- **IMDb ID:** nm0971956
- **TMDB ID:** 1095253
- **Wikidata ID:** Q19359563
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lesher_(producer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19359563, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0971956/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1095253

Producer. Born 12 May 1966 in USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 12 May 1966, USA
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Also known as:** John Huttner Lesher
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as producer, over 7 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 66 (4), 2020s 72 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 67 across 7 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 3 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 6, History 3, Comedy 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 12 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $491m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lesher_(producer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19359563, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0971956/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1095253

## Coming up

- *Focker-in-Law* (2026-11-25), Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/focker-in-law.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Dink*](https://film.one/film/the-dink.md) (59), [*Hostiles*](https://film.one/film/hostiles.md) (58)

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

## Biography

John Huttner Lesher (born 12 May 1966) is an American film producer. He began his career as a talent agent, becoming a partner at the United Talent Agency before moving to Endeavor, where his clients included directors such as Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson and Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Lesher later served as head of Paramount Vantage and president of Paramount Pictures. After leaving the studio in 2009, he founded Le Grisbi Productions. He produced *End of Watch* (2012), *Fury* (2014), *Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)* (2014) – for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture – *Black Mass* (2015), *Hostiles* (2017) and *Ferrari* (2023), and has been an executive producer on the series *Severance* (2022).

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

## On Fi1m (7)

- *The Dink* (2026), Fi1m 59, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-dink.md)
- *Ferrari* (2023), Fi1m 70, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/ferrari.md)
- *Severance* (2022), Fi1m 86, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/severance.md)
- *Hostiles* (2017), Fi1m 58, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hostiles.md)
- *Black Mass* (2015), Fi1m 58, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/black-mass.md)
- *Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)* (2014), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/birdman-or-the-unexpected-virtue-of-ignorance.md)
- *Fury* (2014), Fi1m 67, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/fury-2014.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *Focker-in-Law* (2026), Producer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/focker-in-law.md)
- *The Dink* (2026), Producer — Fi1m 59, [page](https://film.one/film/the-dink.md)
- *Born to Bowl* (2026), series, Executive Producer
- *Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost* (2025), Producer
- *Extremist* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Ferrari* (2023), Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/ferrari.md)
- *The Pale Blue Eye* (2022), Producer
- *Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon* (2022), Producer
- *Tokyo Vice* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Severance* (2022), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/severance.md)
- *The Beach Bum* (2019), Producer
- *White Boy Rick* (2018), Producer
- *Hostiles* (2017), Producer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/hostiles.md)
- *Black Mass* (2015), Producer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/black-mass.md)
- *Mediterranea* (2015), Producer
- *Mississippi Grind* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)* (2014), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/birdman-or-the-unexpected-virtue-of-ignorance.md)
- *Fury* (2014), Producer — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/fury-2014.md)
- *Blood Ties* (2013), Producer
- *End of Watch* (2012), Producer
- *Little Odessa* (1994), Thanks
- *The Seven Five*, Producer
- *Stone Mattress*, Producer
- *Protective Custody*, series, Executive Producer
- *The Off Weeks*, series, Executive Producer
- *Airman*, Producer
- *Slaying the Badger*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 2015: Best Picture (won), for *Birdman*

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

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