Robert Salerno

Robert Salerno (born March 28, 1972) is an American film producer, best known for being a producer of the film 21 Grams with Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Producer ROBERT SALERNO continues a collaboration with Tom Ford that began with A Single Man. Based on the Christopher Isherwood novel and starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, the film earned an Oscar nomination for Colin Firth, three Golden Globe nominations as well as a Best Picture nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards.

A twenty-year film industry veteran, Salerno most recently produced Michael Mayer’s adaptation of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull. Starring Saoirse Ronan and Corey Stoll, the film will be released in 2016.

With a keen eye for notable material and talent, over the course of his career Salerno has produced several award-winning films both on the independent circuit and in association with major Hollywood studios.

Among the critically acclaimed films on which Salerno has been associated are the multi-award nominated We Need to Talk About Kevin, directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly. The film received Best British Film and Best Director BAFTA nominations in addition to Golden Globe, BAFTA and SAG Award nominations for Tilda Swinton.

One of the most celebrated films he produced is 21 Grams, which was directed by Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu and starred Naomi Watts and Oscar winners Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro. The film received numerous awards plus Academy Award nominations for Watts and Del Toro, and a 2004 Independent Spirit Award for Outstanding Filmmaking.

Earlier this year, the topical drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Steve Carell and Michael Shannon was released and earned director Peter Sollett a Best Film Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Among other films Salerno has produced are the comedy The English Teacher directed by Craig Zisk and starring Julianne Moore, Michael Angarano and Greg Kinnear; Arbitrage, directed by Nicholas Jarecki and starring Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon which received the National Board of Review’s Award as one of the Top Ten Independent films while Gere’s performance earned him a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination; director Joel Schumacher’s film Twelve starring Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts and 50 Cents; Chinese Coffee, directed by and starring Al Pacino and Hype Williams’ Belly, starring DMX, Nas and Method Man. His earlier feature credits include Hudson River Blues, The Substitute 2: School’s Out, starring Treat Williams, and Gary Winick’s The Tic Code, starring Gregory Hines.

Under his Artina Films banner, Salerno produced Delirious starring Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt and Chapter 27 starring Jared Leto and Lindsay Lohan which both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Winged Creatures, starring Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Hudson.

In 1995, Salerno began an association with The Shooting Gallery, the New York-based independent film production and distribution company, where he began a longtime partnership with actor/filmmaker Billy Bob Thornton. The creative alliance produced several feature films, including the Academy Award-winning Sling Blade; Daddy and Them and All the Pretty Horses, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz. He also produced Waking Up in Reno in which Thornton starred with Charlize Theron, Patrick Swayze and Natasha Richaardson.

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