---
name: "Mike Medavoy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mike-medavoy"
fi1m_id: "mike-medavoy"
imdb_id: "nm0005219"
tmdb_id: 20206
wikidata_id: "Q726166"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "21 January 1941"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-02T22:53:00.876855+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."
---

# Mike Medavoy

## Identity

Mike Medavoy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mike-medavoy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mike-medavoy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005219
- **TMDB ID:** 20206
- **Wikidata ID:** Q726166
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Medavoy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726166, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005219/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20206

Producer. Born 21 January 1941 in Shanghai.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 21 January 1941, Shanghai
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Arnold Messer](https://film.one/person/arnold-messer.md), [Bradley J. Fischer](https://film.one/person/bradley-j-fischer.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as producer, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 91 (1), 2010s 68 (4), 2020s 55 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 61 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Thriller 3, Drama 2, Horror 2, Mystery 2, Comedy 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 12 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $737m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Medavoy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726166, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005219/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20206

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*Zodiac*](https://film.one/film/zodiac.md) (91)
- **Peacock:** [*The Last Voyage of the Demeter*](https://film.one/film/the-last-voyage-of-the-demeter.md) (55)

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

## Biography

Mike Medavoy is an American film producer and business executive. Born in Shanghai in 1941, he began his career in the mailroom at Universal Studios and later worked as a talent agent representing clients including Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola.

He served as head of production at United Artists, co-founded Orion Pictures in 1978, and was chairman of TriStar Pictures from 1990 to 1994. In 1995 he co-founded Phoenix Pictures, where he remains chairman and CEO. Among the films he has produced are *Zodiac* (2007), *Shutter Island* (2010), *Black Swan* (2010) and *Holes* (2003).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, oak1.the-numbers.com, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *The Last Voyage of the Demeter* (2023), Fi1m 55, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-voyage-of-the-demeter.md)
- *Absolutely Anything* (2015), Fi1m 34, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/absolutely-anything.md)
- *Listen to Me Marlon* (2015), Fi1m 76, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/listen-to-me-marlon.md)
- *Black Swan* (2010), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/black-swan.md)
- *Shutter Island* (2010), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/shutter-island.md)
- *Zodiac* (2007), Fi1m 91, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/zodiac.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

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

- *I, Object* (2026), Executive Producer
- *OZI: Voice of the Forest* (2024), Executive Producer
- *The Last Voyage of the Demeter* (2023), Producer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-voyage-of-the-demeter.md)
- *Altered Carbon* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *The Promise* (2016), Producer
- *A Classy Broad* (2016), as Mike Medavoy
- *The 33* (2015), Producer
- *Listen to Me Marlon* (2015), Executive Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/listen-to-me-marlon.md)
- *Absolutely Anything* (2015), Executive Producer — Fi1m 34, [page](https://film.one/film/absolutely-anything.md)
- *What to Expect When You're Expecting* (2012), Producer
- *The Dreamsters: Welcome to the Dreamery* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Black Swan* (2010), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/black-swan.md)
- *The Wildest Dream* (2010), Executive Producer
- *Shanghai* (2010), Producer
- *Shutter Island* (2010), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/shutter-island.md)
- *License to Wed* (2007), Producer
- *Resurrecting the Champ* (2007), Producer
- *Zodiac* (2007), Producer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/zodiac.md)
- *Pathfinder* (2007), Producer
- *Miss Potter* (2006), Producer
- *All the King's Men* (2006), Producer
- *Stealth* (2005), Producer
- *Holes* (2003), Producer
- *Basic* (2003), Producer
- *The Outsider* (2002), Executive Producer
- *In the Time of the Butterflies* (2001), Executive Producer
- *The 6th Day* (2000), Producer
- *Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story* (1991), series, Executive Producer
- *The Christian Licorice Store* (1971), as Hollywood Party Guest
- *Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story*, Actor
- *Joseph Merrick*, Producer
- *Monolith*, Producer
- *Untitled Urban Legend Reboot*, Producer
- *To Boldly Go*, Producer
- *Harry's Big Birthday Countdown*, Executive Producer
- *The Brigands of Rattlecreek*, Executive Producer
- *Rosemary*, Executive Producer

## Gallery

- ![Mike Medavoy](https://film.one/media/person/99550/gallery-e71866d79e90.jpg) Mike Medavoy — David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Michael_Medavoy_2012_Shankbone.JPG/1280px-Michael_Medavoy_2012_Shankbone.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Motion picture executive, Mike Medavoy, Los Angeles (1978)](https://film.one/media/person/99550/gallery-198c53bfe1d1.jpg) Motion picture executive, Mike Medavoy, Los Angeles (1978) — Larry Armstrong, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Mike_Medavoy%2C_1978.jpg/1280px-Mike_Medavoy%2C_1978.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mike Medavoy (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/99550/gallery-0a57d8f3002e.jpg) Mike Medavoy (2007) — David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Mike_Medavoy_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mike Medavoy](https://film.one/media/person/99550/gallery-06d1466c8439.jpg) Mike Medavoy — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2011: Best Picture (nominated), for *Black Swan*

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

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/mike-medavoy