Crew
Mark Johnson - Executive Producer
Mark Johnson won the Best Picture Academy® Award for Barry Levinson’s poignant 1988 drama Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman (Best Actor Oscar) and Tom Cruise.
His recent slate of motion pictures includes The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian both directed by Andrew Adamson; Nick Cassavetes’ dramas My Sister’s Keeper, starring Cameron Diaz, The Notebook, based on Nicholas Sparks’ best selling novel; Lance Hammer’s Sundance Award-winner Ballast; the Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver scifi comedy Galaxy Quest directed by Dean Parisot; The Rookie directed by John Lee Hancock; Mike Newell’s gangster drama Donnie Brasco starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino; and Clint Eastwood’s A Perfect World starring Kevin Costner.
Johnson produced all of the writer-director Barry Levinson’s films from 1982-1994. In addition to Rain Man, their diverse slate of acclaimed features includes Good Morning, Vietnam, The Natural, Tin Men, Toys, Young Sherlock Holmes, Avalon, Diner (their 1982 debut project, for which Levinson earned an Oscar® nomination for his screenplay), and Bugsy, nominated for ten Academy® Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Bugsy also captured a Best Picture Golden Globe® Award.
Johnson is currently in production on the Untitled David Chase Project, which will be released by Paramount Pictures, and an untitled movie for Walden Media starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis and directed by Daniel Barnz. He also produced with Guillermo del Toro the upcoming Miramax fantasy horror film Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark starring Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce, which will be released in theaters on August 26th.
Johnson serves as the Chair of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Foreign Language Film Award Committee and as a Governor for the Producers’ Branch.
