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Jeffrey Sharp, an award-winning producer and publishing entrepreneur, is President/CEO of Sharp Independent Pictures, a film and TV production company focused on developing and producing for the US and international marketplace.

As a producer, Sharp is currently in post-production on The Yellow Birds written by David Lowery, directed by Alexandre Moors and starring Jennifer Aniston, Toni Collette, Jack Huston, Tye Sheridan, and Alden Ehrenreich and My Other Home written and directed by Larry Yang and starring Stephon Marbury for China's Hairun Pictures.

Sharp has produced a series of Academy Award® and Golden Globe® winning and nominated films such as : Boys Don't Cry, You Can Count on Me, Nicholas Nickleby, and Proof. With those movies, as well as other renowned adaptations, including A Home at the End of the World, The Night Listener and Evening, Sharp has worked to better integrate the publishing and film industries.

Prior to Sharp Independent, Sharp co-founded the digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media with former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman, which has become a leading independent e-book publisher in the US. At Open Road, Sharp looked for new ways to option film and TV rights as part of the publishing process, which led to the formation of Story Mining & Supply in Los Angeles in 2012 where Sharp, as President and CEO, oversaw the development and production of several feature films and TV shows from Open Road and other publishing properties including Outlander (nominated for three Golden Globes®), The Yellow Birds, and The Paul Christopher TV series.

Sharp currently serves as Chairman of the Hamptons International Film Festival Advisory Board, member of the Board of Literacy Partners, Special Advisor for the Book Meets Film Forum at the Taipei International Book Expo, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of BookExpo of America. He is a member of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and the PGA (Producers Guild of America). Sharp graduated with an MFA in Film Studies from Columbia University and a BA from Colgate University.

Jeffrey Sharp is the son of William Sharp (Scientist).

Filmography

Year Title Director Box Office Notes
1991 The Doors Oliver Stone $34.4 million[1]
1998 Dark Harbor Adam Coleman Howard
1999 Boys Don't Cry Kimberly Peirce $20.7 million[2]

Academy Award for Best Actress
Winner Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated
Golden Globe for Best Actress
Winner
Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated

GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film – Limited Release
Nominated - Guldbagge Award for Best Foreign Film
Nominated - Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature
Nominated - National Board of Review Award for Best Film
Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Film
2000 You Can Count On Me Kenneth Lonergan $11 million[3]

Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Nominated

American Film Institute Award - Movie of the Year
Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature
Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Film
Nominated - Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Film
Nominated - National Board of Review Award for Best Film
2001 Lift DeMane Davis & Khari Streeter Nominated - Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series
2002 Nicholas Nickleby Douglas McGrath $3.7 million[4] Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nominated - Young Artist Award - Best Family Feature Film - Drama
2003 Just Another Story GQ
Undefeated John Leguizamo TV Movie
2004 A Home at the End of the World Michael Mayer $1.5 million[5] Nominated - GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film – Wide Release
P.S. Dylan Kidd $180.000[6]
2005 Proof John Madden $14.2 million[7]

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress
Nominated

2006 The Night Listener Patrick Stettner $10.8 million[8] Nominated - GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film – Wide Release
2007 Evening Lajos Koltai $20 million[9]
2016 My Other Home Zi Yang
2017 The Yellow Birds Alexandre Moors

References