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Jon Avnet is an American film and television director, producer, and writer. He is best known for directing the films Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Up Close & Personal (1996), Red Corner (1997), and Righteous Kill (2008). He has also produced films such as Risky Business (1983), The War (1994), and Black Swan (2010).
Avnet was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family. He attended Midwood High School and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1971. He began his career as a director in television, directing episodes of the series Kojak, The Rockford Files, and Hill Street Blues.
Avnet has been married to actress Barbara Williams since 1983. They have two children, Jake and Emma. Avnet is the founder of the production company, Avnet/Kerner Productions. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As of 2021, Jon Avnet's net worth is estimated to be $50 million.
Popular As |
Jonathan Michael Avnet |
Occupation |
producer,director,writer |
Age |
75 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
Born |
17 November 1949 |
Birthday |
17 November |
Birthplace |
Brooklyn, New York City |
Nationality |
United States |
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He is a member of famous Producer with the age 75 years old group.
Jon Avnet Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Jon Avnet's Wife?
His wife is Barbara Brody
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Barbara Brody |
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Jacob Avnet, Alexandra Lester Avnet, Lily Avnet |
Jon Avnet Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Jon Avnet worth at the age of 75 years old? Jon Avnet’s income source is mostly from being a successful Producer. He is from United States. We have estimated
Jon Avnet's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Milton Rokeach's "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti," the film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and is slated for release by IFC Films in January of 2020.
In the summer of 2019, Mr.
In September of 2019, Avnet is producing for Indigenous Media, Rodrigo Garcia's Four Good Days, starring Glenn Close and Mila Kunis. IM has also produced, in association with Kerry Washington, Five Points, the first scripted drama for Facebook Watch.
In 2018, he became an executive producer of Sneaky Pete Season 3 and directed 4 episodes additional episodes. He first collaborated With Graham Yost as Executive Producer of the critically-acclaimed "Boomtown" for NBC. Avnet directed the pilot and eight additional episodes. Boomtown won the Critics Associations Award for Best Series and a Peabody Award. Mr. Avnet is CEO of Indigenous Media which he founded with Rodrigo Garcia and his son Jake Avnet, who is the Chief Operating Officer. Indigenous Media produces 60 Second Docs, which has received over 4. 25 billion views since its debut and has 7. 6 million followers.
It premiered in the spring of 2018 and had its second season air in August of 2019.
Jon Avnet has directed, written, and produced dozens of motion pictures, television movies and Broadway plays, winning Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Peabody's, DGA Awards, the Humanitas, Golden Globes and the AFI's Franklin Shaffner Medal. He has directed the Oscar-nominated performance of Jessica Tandy and three Emmy-winning performances of Margo Martindale, Colleen Dewhurst and Judy Davis. Mr. Avnet received an honorary doctorate in communications from the American Film Institute in 2013 and the Creative Spirit Award from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. Mr. Avnet is best known for co-writing, directing and producing Fried Green Tomatoes, which garnered multiple Academy Award nominations (for writing and for Jessica Tandy, who co-starred with Kathy Bates, Cicely Tyson and Mary Louise Parker) and BAFTA's. Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for Best Picture by the Golden Globes, won the GLAAD award for Best Picture, and was one of the top grossing films in the year of its release. He produced Risky Business with his partner Steve Tisch, which launched the career of Tom Cruise. Mr. Avnet was the executive producer of Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman (winner of the Oscar for Best Actress) and directed by Darren Aronofsky. Black Swan received five Oscar nominations in total (including Best Picture) as well as multiple nominations and wins from the PGA, WGA, SAG, BAFTA, AFI, and the Golden Globes. In television, Avnet produced (with Steve Tisch) The Burning Bed, starring Farrah Fawcett, which garnered eight Emmy nominations and was the highest-rated television movie ever aired on NBC. It received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture. This film is credited with creating the "battered woman syndrome" as a legal defense for victims of domestic violence. Mr. Avnet most recently directed and co-wrote Three Christs, starring Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Walton Goggins, Bradley Whitford, Julianna Margulies and Jane Alexander.
Avnet directed Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in Righteous Kill, released in September 2008. He also directed and produced Red Corner starring Richard Gere, and Up Close and Personal starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer with a script by Joan Didion and John Dunne. His first directing outing (which he also co-wrote and produced) was the TV movie Between Two Women, starring Colleen Dewhurst and Farrah Fawcett, which earned Dewhurst an Emmy for her performance. He directed and executive-produced The Starter Wife, a six-hour limited series for the USA Network starring Debra Messing, Joe Mantegna, and Judy Davis (who won the Best Supporting Actress Emmy for her performance).
Based on the novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, it aired May 2007 as the highest-rated limited cable series that year and received ten Emmy nominations as well as DGA and PGA nominations for Mr. Avnet.
Daughters: Alexandra Lester Avnet (b. 1981) and Lily Avnet with Barbara Avnet.
Based on the controversial study in 1959 and chronicled in Dr.
This film dealt with the resistance during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. Mr. Avnet was nominated for a DGA award for best directing. Mr.