Dede Gardner
Dorcas Wright "Dede" Gardner (born October 16, 1967) is an American film producer. She was president since the founding of Plan B Entertainment and currently serving as Co-President with Jeremy Kleiner since 2013. She is a two-time Oscar winner for 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight, the first woman to win two Oscars for Best Picture. Her films Selma, The Tree of Life, The Big Short, Vice, Minari and Women Talking were additionally nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Early life
She is the daughter of Dorothy and John Gardner, of Winnetka, Illinois. She graduated cum laude from Columbia University in 1990. Her classmates included television showrunners Jeff Rake and Gina Fattore. Her father is a partner at the Chicago investment bank William Blair & Company; her mother is president of the Michael Reese Health Trust.

Personal life
In 2000, she married Jonathan Boris Berg in an Episcopalian ceremony on Martha's Vineyard.

Filmography
She was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Location management

Thanks

Television

Awards and nominations
In 2012, Gardner and her fellow producers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Tree of Life. In 2014, she won the Academy Award for Best Picture for the movie 12 Years a Slave alongside co-producers Brad Pitt, Steve McQueen,  Jeremy Kleiner and Anthony Katagas. In 2015, she was nominated once again for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Selma alongside fellow producers Oprah Winfrey, Jeremy Kleiner, and Christian Colson. In 2017, she won her second Academy Award for Best Picture for the movie, Moonlight. She becomes the first female producer to win two Academy Awards for Best Picture.

Academy Awards

AACTA International Awards

AFI Awards

Alliance of Women Film Journalists

American Black Film Festival

Awards Circuit Community Awards

Black Reel Awards

British Academy Film Awards

CinEuphoria Awards

Golden Raspberry Awards

Gotham Awards

Independent Spirit Awards

Italian Online Movie Awards

Online Film & Television Association Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards

Producers Guild of America Awards

References

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1967 births
Living people
Film people from Chicago
Film producers from Illinois
American women film producers
Plan B Entertainment
Filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award
Golden Globe Award-winning producers
Producers who won the Best Picture Academy Award
Columbia College (New York) alumni
California Institute of the Arts alumni
20th-century American women
21st-century American women