---
name: "Kurt Eichenwald"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kurt-eichenwald"
fi1m_id: "kurt-eichenwald"
imdb_id: "nm1141272"
tmdb_id: 106936
wikidata_id: "Q6446710"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "28 June 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T19:36:41.950398+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."
---

# Kurt Eichenwald

## Identity

Kurt Eichenwald

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kurt-eichenwald
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kurt-eichenwald
- **IMDb ID:** nm1141272
- **TMDB ID:** 106936
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6446710
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Eichenwald, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6446710, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1141272/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106936

Producer. Born 28 June 1961 in New York City, New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 28 June 1961, New York City, New York
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Eichenwald, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6446710, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1141272/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106936

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Informant!*](https://film.one/film/the-informant.md) (71)

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

## Biography

Kurt Eichenwald is an American journalist and author. He was born on 28 June 1961 in New York City. He graduated from Swarthmore College and joined The New York Times in 1986, where he worked for two decades as a senior writer and investigative reporter covering Wall Street and corporate matters.

Eichenwald is the author of several non-fiction books, including *The Informant: A True Story* (2000). The book was adapted into the 2009 film *The Informant!*, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon, on which Eichenwald is credited as a producer. He has also written for Newsweek and Vanity Fair.

Eichenwald is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award and a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. He later worked as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a senior writer at Newsweek.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Informant!* (2009), Fi1m 71, Book, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-informant.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *The Informant!* (2009), Book, Producer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-informant.md)

## Gallery

- ![Kurt Eichenwald](https://film.one/media/person/9509/gallery-8c9499767c73.jpg) Kurt Eichenwald — Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Kurt_eichenwald_2009.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kurt Eichenwald](https://film.one/media/person/9509/gallery-ab50fd51b314.jpg) Kurt Eichenwald — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- George Polk Award 1995: George Polk Award (won)

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

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