---
name: "Peter Saraf"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-saraf"
fi1m_id: "peter-saraf"
imdb_id: "nm0764771"
tmdb_id: 4855
wikidata_id: "Q7176778"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-24T19:30:19.613413+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."
---

# Peter Saraf

## Identity

Peter Saraf

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-saraf
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-saraf
- **IMDb ID:** nm0764771
- **TMDB ID:** 4855
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7176778
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Saraf, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7176778, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0764771/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4855

Producer. Born 1 January 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 2000
- **Active:** 2002–2019
- **Frequently works with:** [Marc Turtletaub](https://film.one/person/marc-turtletaub.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as producer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 80 (2), 2010s 80 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 76 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 3, Crime 1, Family 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $224m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Saraf, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7176778, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0764771/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4855

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood*](https://film.one/film/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood.md) (77)

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

## Biography

Peter Saraf is a film, television and theatre producer. He began his career working with director Jonathan Demme on films including *Philadelphia* (1993), *Ulee's Gold* (1997), *Beloved* (1998) and *Adaptation.* (2002), as well as the documentary *Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation* (1996).

In 2004 he co-founded the production company Big Beach with Marc Turtletaub, which he ran for nearly two decades. Its credits include *Little Miss Sunshine* (2006), *Sunshine Cleaning* (2008), *Everything Is Illuminated* (2005), *Safety Not Guaranteed* (2012), *The Kings of Summer* (2013), *Loving* (2016), *A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood* (2019) and *The Farewell* (2019). He left the company in 2020.

Saraf has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and multiple Independent Spirit, Producers Guild and Gotham awards. In 2026 he was appointed chair of the undergraduate Film and Television department at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood* (2019), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood.md)
- *The Farewell* (2019), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-farewell.md)
- *Little Miss Sunshine* (2006), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/little-miss-sunshine.md)
- *Adaptation.* (2002), Fi1m 83, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/adaptation.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

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

- *Winner* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Out of My Mind* (2024), Producer, Executive Producer
- *Don't Make Me Go* (2022), Producer
- *Nuclear Family* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *Land* (2021), Producer
- *What the Constitution Means to Me* (2020), Executive Producer
- *A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood* (2019), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood.md)
- *The Farewell* (2019), Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-farewell.md)
- *Sorry for Your Loss* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *Puzzle* (2018), Producer
- *White Fang* (2018), Producer
- *Loving* (2016), Producer
- *3 Generations* (2016), Producer
- *Gods Behaving Badly* (2013), Producer
- *The Kings of Summer* (2013), Producer
- *Safety Not Guaranteed* (2012), Producer
- *Our Idiot Brother* (2011), Producer
- *Jack Goes Boating* (2010), Producer
- *Away We Go* (2009), Producer
- *Is Anybody There?* (2009), Producer
- *Chop Shop* (2008), Executive Producer
- *Sunshine Cleaning* (2008), Producer
- *Little Miss Sunshine* (2006), Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/little-miss-sunshine.md)
- *Everything Is Illuminated* (2005), Producer
- *The Agronomist* (2004), Producer, Cinematography
- *Adaptation.* (2002), Executive Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/adaptation.md)
- *The Truth About Charlie* (2002), Producer
- *The Opportunists* (2000), Executive Producer
- *Storefront Hitchcock* (1998), Producer
- *Ulee's Gold* (1997), Co-Producer
- *Neil Young and Crazy Horse: The Complex Sessions* (1995), Executive Producer
- *One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room* (1994), Producer
- *1000 Miles*, Producer
- *Children of the New World*, Producer
- *Two Wolves*, Producer
- *Last Night at the Lobster*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2007: Best Picture (nominated), for *Little Miss Sunshine*

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

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