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name: "Robert Salerno"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "28 March 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T08:17:03.711802+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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# Robert Salerno

Producer. Born 28 March 1972.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 28 March 1972
- **Active:** 1996–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as producer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 83 (1), 2010s 78 (2), 2020s 64 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 68 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Thriller 2, Horror 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $212m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q593316, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007011/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6409

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*We Need to Talk About Kevin*](https://film.one/film/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin.md) (81), [*Nocturnal Animals*](https://film.one/film/nocturnal-animals.md) (74)

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## Biography

Robert Salerno is an American film producer born on 28 March 1972. He began working in the industry in the mid-1990s, including as a production manager on *Sling Blade* (1996), and later formed the production company Artina Films with Naomi Despres in 2005.

He has produced films including *21 Grams* (2003), *A Single Man* (2009), *We Need to Talk About Kevin* (2011), *Arbitrage* (2012), *Nocturnal Animals* (2016), *I'm Thinking of Ending Things* (2020), *Smile* (2022) and *Smile 2* (2024). Salerno also made his feature directorial debut with *Here After* (2024).

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Smile 2* (2024), Fi1m 64, Unit Production Manager, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/smile-2.md)
- *Nocturnal Animals* (2016), Fi1m 74, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/nocturnal-animals.md)
- *We Need to Talk About Kevin* (2011), Fi1m 81, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin.md)
- *Sling Blade* (1996), Fi1m 83, Production Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/sling-blade.md)

## Also known for

- *Smile* (2022), Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *21 Grams* (2003), Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *All the Bright Places* (2020), Executive Producer
- *I'm Thinking of Ending Things* (2020), Producer, Second Unit Director
- *A Single Man* (2009), Producer
- *Arbitrage* (2012), Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *Freeheld* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Vox Lux* (2018), Producer, Unit Production Manager

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