---
name: "Sev Ohanian"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sev-ohanian"
fi1m_id: "sev-ohanian"
imdb_id: "nm3539578"
tmdb_id: 1639084
wikidata_id: "Q75830666"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "2 June 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T07:55:27.003435+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."
---

# Sev Ohanian

## Identity

Sev Ohanian

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sev-ohanian
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sev-ohanian
- **IMDb ID:** nm3539578
- **TMDB ID:** 1639084
- **Wikidata ID:** Q75830666
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sev_Ohanian, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75830666, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3539578/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1639084

Producer. Born 2 June 1987 in Hadamar, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 2 June 1987, Hadamar, Germany
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Also known as:** Sevak Ohanian, سيف أوهانيان
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 writing, 3 producing
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 77 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Drama 2, History 1, Horror 1, Sport 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $653m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sev_Ohanian, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75830666, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3539578/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1639084

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Sinners*](https://film.one/film/sinners.md) (79)
- **Disney+:** [*Missing*](https://film.one/film/missing.md) (64)

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

## Biography

Sev Ohanian is an American film producer and screenwriter. Born on 2 June 1987 in Hadamar, West Germany, to an Armenian family, he moved to the United States as an infant. He attended the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

Ohanian co-wrote and produced *Searching* (2018) and *Run* (2020). He produced *Missing* (2023) and *Sinners* (2025), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. He is a co-founder of the production company Proximity Media, alongside Ryan Coogler and Zinzi Coogler, and has served as executive producer on films including *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021) and *Creed III* (2023). He is married to producer Natalie Qasabian.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, laist.com, uscannenbergmedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Wrote (1)

- *Missing* (2023), Fi1m 64, Story, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/missing.md)

### Produced (3) — the average rests on these

- *Sinners* (2025), Fi1m 79, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/sinners.md)
- *Creed III* (2023), Fi1m 72, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md)
- *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/judas-and-the-black-messiah.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *Eyes of Wakanda* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Ironheart* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Sinners* (2025), Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/sinners.md)
- *Stephen Curry: Underrated* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Anthem* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Creed III* (2023), Executive Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md)
- *Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *Missing* (2023), Story, Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/missing.md)
- *Space Jam: A New Legacy* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021), Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/judas-and-the-black-messiah.md)
- *Run* (2020), Writer, Producer
- *Searching* (2018), Writer, Producer
- *Take Me* (2017), Producer
- *The Labyrinth* (2016), Producer
- *The Intervention* (2016), Producer
- *Yosemite* (2016), Producer
- *Where Hope Grows* (2014), Co-Executive Producer
- *Fruitvale Station* (2013), Co-Producer
- *My Big Fat Armenian Family* (2008), Director of Photography, Editor, Director, Producer, Writer
- *Untitled Sundance Institute Project*, series, Executive Producer
- *Doppelgänger*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Sev Ohanian](https://film.one/media/person/8589/gallery-414b5a34689d.jpg) Sev Ohanian — RISE, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Sev_Ohanian_at_RISE_Hong_Kong.jpg/1280px-Sev_Ohanian_at_RISE_Hong_Kong.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Sev Ohanian](https://film.one/media/person/8589/gallery-ce69ededb63c.jpg) Sev Ohanian — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2026: Best Picture (nominated), for *Sinners*

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

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