Stacey Sher is a two-time Academy Award nominee as a producer of the Best Picture Oscar nominee Django Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, and Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz for Academy Award-winning writer/director Quentin Tarantino. She was previously nominated in the same capacity as a producer of Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich, starring Academy Award winner Julia Roberts and Albert Finney. Ms. Sher additionally received a BAFTA Award nomination for the latter, and Producers Guild of America Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for both movies. The two films were blockbuster hits that received many additional accolades around the world.
She was in post-production on A Walk Among the Tombstones, starring Liam Neeson and Dan Stevens, adapted by director Scott Frank from the Lawrence Block novel. The movie was released in September by Universal Pictures. Ms. Sher also was in a first-look deal with AMC to produce original television series.
She was executive producer of Wish I Was Here director Zach Braff's previous feature, the award-winning Garden State. Her many other producing credits include Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction; Steven Soderbergh's Contagion and Out of Sight; Ben Stiller's Reality Bites; John Hamburg's Along Came Polly; Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty and its sequel Be Cool, the latter directed by F. Gary Gray; Andrew Niccol's Gattaca; Todd Graff's Camp; Richard LaGravenese's Living Out Loud and Freedom Writers, which received the Humanitas Prize; Milos Forman's Man on the Moon, starring Golden Globe Award winner Jim Carrey; and the Comedy Central television series Reno 911!
Ms. Sher and producer Michael Shamberg, her partner in the production company Double Feature Films, were honored by the ACLU for their commitment to films and television that are empowering, inspirational, and thought-provoking, dealing with issues from public safety to education, social justice to censorship. Their film World Trade Center, starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, and Maggie Gyllenhaal for director Oliver Stone, was chosen for the 2006 Christopher Award, which is presented to those who create films that affirm the highest values of the human spirit.
Honored with the 2000 Women in Film Independent Vision Award and the 2002 Mary Pickford Award from the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), Ms. Sher delivered the commencement address at the latter's 2013 graduation ceremony.
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