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name: "Sarah Siegel-Magness"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sarah-siegel-magness"
fi1m_id: "sarah-siegel-magness"
imdb_id: "nm2318133"
tmdb_id: 966188
wikidata_id: "Q22115218"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T07:22:06.976394+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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# Sarah Siegel-Magness

## Identity

Sarah Siegel-Magness

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sarah-siegel-magness
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sarah-siegel-magness
- **IMDb ID:** nm2318133
- **TMDB ID:** 966188
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22115218
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22115218, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2318133/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/966188

Producer. Born 1 January 1974 in Colorado.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1974, Colorado
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22115218, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2318133/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/966188

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire*](https://film.one/film/precious-based-on-the-novel-push-by-sapphire.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Sarah Siegel-Magness is a film producer and director. She co-founded the production company Smokewood Entertainment with her husband, Gary Magness. The pair financed and produced the 2009 film *Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire*, which received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.

Siegel-Magness graduated from the University of Colorado. She produced the 2011 family film *Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer* and made her directorial debut with the 2013 drama *Crazy Kind of Love*. Earlier credits include executive producing *Tennessee* (2008).

*Sources: imdb.com, cnn.com, backstage.com, dailycamera.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire* (2009), Fi1m 72, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/precious-based-on-the-novel-push-by-sapphire.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *Weepah Way For Now* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Crazy Kind of Love* (2013), Director
- *Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer* (2011), Producer
- *Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire* (2009), Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/precious-based-on-the-novel-push-by-sapphire.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2010: Best Picture (nominated), for *Precious*

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

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