American film producer
Charles H. Joffe
Born (1929-07-16 ) July 16, 1929Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died July 9, 2008(2008-07-09) (aged 78)Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names Charles Joffe Occupation Film producer Years active 1969–2008 Spouse Children 2 Relatives Nicole, Suzanne Holofcener (stepdaughters)
Charles H. Joffe (July 16, 1929 – July 9, 2008) was an American film producer and comedytalent manager .[ 1] He is best known as, in partnership withJack Rollins , the producer or executive producer of most ofWoody Allen 's films. Joffe won the1977 Academy Award forBest Picture as producer of Allen'sAnnie Hall .
Annie Hall was listed as "A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production", though only Joffe took producer credit and received the Academy Award for Best Picture. Both were Allen's longtime managers and had that credit on all his films from 1969 to 1993. Joffe focused more on Allen, with Rollins focusing on others.[ 1] Their clients also includedRobert Klein andDavid Letterman .[ 2]
Joffe was born inBrooklyn, New York , the son of Esther (Gordon) and Sid Joffe, a pharmacist.[ 3] [ 4] He worked as a booking agent for bands at local nightclubs while studying journalism atSyracuse University .[ 3] He then worked under Rollins as a junior agent atMusic Corporation of America .[ 3] In 1953, he and Rollins left MCA and formed their own agency in Manhattan.[ 3]
Joffe was married toset decorator Carol Joffe [ 5] (former wife of sculptorLawrence Holofcener ) with whom he has an adopted son, Cory Joffe, and two stepdaughters, Suzanne Holofcener and directorNicole Holofcener .[ 6] He died atCedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a week before his 79th birthday, after a long illness.[ 1]
Awards and nominations [ edit ] ^a b c "Charles H. Joffe, 78; top manager of comedic talent co-produced Woody Allen's films" .Los Angeles Times . July 12, 2008. RetrievedJuly 12, 2008 .^ Coleman, Janet (November 1, 1991).The Compass: the improvisational theatre that revolutionized American comedy . University of Chicago Press. p. 239.ISBN 978-0-226-11345-6 . RetrievedMarch 3, 2011 . ^a b c d Bergan, Ronald (July 16, 2008)."Charles Joffe - Movie producer and a key player in the career of Woody Allen" .The Guardian . ^ "Charles H. Joffe Biography (1929-)" .^ "Oscar-winning 'Annie Hall' producer Charles Joffe dies at 78" .taiwannews.com . July 15, 2008. Archived fromthe original on March 4, 2016. RetrievedJuly 31, 2011 .^ Rochlin, Margy (June 23, 2002)."FILM; Just Like Her Family: Complicated" .The New York Times . ^ "Charles H. Joffe" .IMDb .
Awards for Charles H. Joffe
Arthur Freed (1951)Cecil B. DeMille (1952)Buddy Adler (1953)Sam Spiegel (1954)Harold Hecht (1955)Michael Todd (1956)Sam Spiegel (1957)Arthur Freed (1958)Sam Zimbalist (1959)Billy Wilder (1960)Robert Wise (1961)Sam Spiegel (1962)Tony Richardson (1963)Jack L. Warner (1964)Robert Wise (1965)Fred Zinnemann (1966)Walter Mirisch (1967)John Woolf (1968)Jerome Hellman (1969)Frank McCarthy (1970)Philip D'Antoni (1971)Albert S. Ruddy (1972)Tony Bill ,Julia Phillips andMichael Phillips (1973)Francis Ford Coppola ,Gray Frederickson andFred Roos (1974)Michael Douglas andSaul Zaentz (1975)Robert Chartoff andIrwin Winkler (1976)Charles H. Joffe (1977)Michael Cimino ,Michael Deeley ,John Peverall andBarry Spikings (1978)Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)Ronald L. Schwary (1980)David Puttnam (1981)Richard Attenborough (1982)James L. Brooks (1983)Saul Zaentz (1984)Sydney Pollack (1985)Arnold Kopelson (1986)Jeremy Thomas (1987)Mark Johnson (1988)Lili Fini Zanuck andRichard D. Zanuck (1989)Kevin Costner andJim Wilson (1990)Ron Bozman ,Edward Saxon andKenneth Utt (1991)Clint Eastwood (1992)Branko Lustig ,Gerald R. Molen andSteven Spielberg (1993)Wendy Finerman ,Steve Starkey andSteve Tisch (1994)Bruce Davey ,Mel Gibson andAlan Ladd Jr. (1995)Saul Zaentz (1996)James Cameron andJon Landau (1997)Donna Gigliotti ,Marc Norman ,David Parfitt ,Harvey Weinstein andEdward Zwick (1998)Bruce Cohen andDan Jinks (1999)David Franzoni ,Branko Lustig andDouglas Wick (2000)Brian Grazer andRon Howard (2001)Martin Richards (2002)Peter Jackson ,Barrie M. Osborne andFran Walsh (2003)Clint Eastwood ,Tom Rosenberg andAlbert S. Ruddy (2004)Paul Haggis andCathy Schulman (2005)Graham King (2006)Ethan Coen, Joel Coen andScott Rudin (2007)Christian Colson (2008)Kathryn Bigelow ,Mark Boal ,Nicolas Chartier andGreg Shapiro (2009)Iain Canning ,Emile Sherman andGareth Unwin (2010)Thomas Langmann (2011)Ben Affleck ,George Clooney andGrant Heslov (2012)Dede Gardner ,Anthony Katagas ,Jeremy Kleiner ,Steve McQueen andBrad Pitt (2013)Alejandro G. Iñárritu ,John Lesher andJames W. Skotchdopole (2014)Blye Pagon Faust ,Steve Golin ,Nicole Rocklin andMichael Sugar (2015)Dede Gardner ,Jeremy Kleiner andAdele Romanski (2016)J. Miles Dale andGuillermo del Toro (2017)Jim Burke , Brian Currie,Peter Farrelly ,Nick Vallelonga andCharles B. Wessler (2018)Bong Joon-ho andKwak Sin-ae (2019)Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey,Frances McDormand ,Peter Spears andChloé Zhao (2020) Fabrice Gianfermi,Philippe Rousselet , Patrick Wachsberger (2021) Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert andJonathan Wang (2022)Emma Thomas ,Charles Roven , andChristopher Nolan (2023)Alex Coco ,Samantha Quan , andSean Baker (2024)
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