Lucy Fisher (born October 2, 1949) is an American film producer. She was previously Vice Chairman of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group at Sony Studios, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Production at Warner Brothers, Head of Production at Zoetrope studios and Vice President of Production at Twentieth Century Fox. She was described by Jack Nicholson as,"This is a jazzy girl, this casually brilliant vice chairperson of Sony Pictures. The executive that no one flees at parties. The suit with legs... Lucy is the smartest, sweetest girl in class...The one who spends each Valentine's Day wondering whether everyone else in class got enough cards in their box." Along with her partner and husband Douglas Wick, she is Co-head of Red Wagon Entertainment. Fisher's most recent production was The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan.
AACTA Award for Best Film, PGA David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures
Movies
Divergent, Allegiant, The Great Gatsby, Memoirs of a Geisha, Jarhead, Lawless, Peter Pan, Bewitched, Divergent Series: Allegiant - Part 2, Stuart Little 2, RV, Insurgent, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
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I'd say there's two parts that are the most exciting for me personally [about filmmaking]. One part is when you're in the room putting it together, at a certain stage, there's a group of people and the sum is so much greater than each part; when you feel like it's a smart room and feel like the idea is getting enhanced minute by minute. It's geometrically getting better as the costume designer says, "What about this?" And the director says, "What about that?" And the actor says, "Well, what about this?" And the producer says, "What about this?" And all of it gels. For me, that's the best possible thing, when you sort of say, "I could never have done this on my own and none of us could have. It took everybody." Obviously, the director is the leader, but it took everybody's insight and everybody's point of view and everybody's specialty to be at their peak for it to be good. So that's the part that, as a producer, you can control a little bit of, and that I find the most fulfilling -- just watching something get better. And then there's a moment where you actually sit in the dark room and it works, and it's so much better than you ever could have hoped for. It's a very rare pleasure to experience that. ... Or you'll be sitting in the theater and hear an audience member that you don't know saying, "I want to go to the bathroom so bad, but I can't leave." That's when you know you did your job right and you feel really, really great.
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Ranked #66 in Premiere's 2002 annual Power 100 List with producing partner Douglas Wick. They had ranked #70 in 2001.
$1.1 Million
