Scott A. Mosier (born March 5, 1971) is an American-Canadian film producer, director and editor best known for his work with directorKevin Smith, with whom he occasionally co-hosts the weekly podcast,SModcast.

Mosier was born inVancouver, Washington,^[1] and moved around as a child between British Columbia and Washington. He has dual Canadian and American citizenship, as his father John was born inSaskatchewan, Canada. As a teenager he resided inVancouver,British Columbia.^{[citation needed]}

Mosier metKevin Smith while both were attendingVancouver Film School in Canada. Their first assignment,Mae Day: The Crumbling of a Documentary, was a student film documentary that fell apart in production. To salvage it, Smith and Mosier interviewed the crew about the demise of the very documentary that they had been attempting to produce. They also added a segment in which the two were shown in silhouette as they described their fictional thoughts.^{[citation needed]}

Four months into the eight-month program, Smith decided to drop out, but not before making a deal with Mosier: each would start writing a script of his own, and the one who finished last would help the other with his film.^[2]

On Smith's first feature film,Clerks, Mosier recorded the original sound on set, edited the film (at RST Video), and contributed to the budget.^{[citation needed]} He also contributed by appearing on-screen as multiple characters, including the angry hockey player andWillam Black (Snowball).

On 1995 filmMallrats, Mosier worked in organizing the budget along withline producer Laura Greenlee, while presiding over a much larger crew.^{[citation needed]} In the film, he portrayed Svenning's assistant, Roddy. The character later appeared on aJay and Silent Bob MTV short.

On the 1997 romantic comedy filmChasing Amy, Mosier and Smith agreed withMiramax'sHarvey Weinstein andBob Weinstein to shrink the initial proposed budget from $3 million to $250,000. The compromise allowed Mosier and Kevin to cast their friends instead of established stars.^{[citation needed]} Mosier appears in the beginning of the film as the comics convention patron who gets into an argument withBanky Edwards (Jason Lee) after demeaning his career as a “tracer”.

On the 1999 filmDogma, Mosier worked with Greenlee again; the editing of the film lasted nearly a year. He also played the Smooching Seaman whoBen Affleck andMatt Damon meet on the bus.

On the 2001 filmJay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Mosier worked with a budget of $20 million. The editing was difficult, due to theMPAA threatening to give the film anNC-17 rating. In the film, Mosier played the assistant director on the set of the fictional sequel toGood Will Hunting and reprises his Willam Black character fromClerks.

Mosier had a comparatively larger budget to work with on the filmJersey Girl, at $35 million. The editing was also difficult due to the studio's desire to cut a large amount ofJennifer Lopez footage with Ben Affleck following the poor box-office performance ofGigli.

Mosier producedClerks II in 2006. Smith stated he edited the film himself, makingClerks II one of three films Mosier has produced with Smith, but not edited (the others beingMallrats andZack and Miri Make a Porno). Mosier makes a brief cameo as a concerned father who shields his daughter's eyes from the sight of a character sitting on a toilet.

In 2008, Mosier worked again with Smith as the producer onZack and Miri Make a Porno.

Mosier served as an executive producer, editor, and actor forBryan Johnson'sVulgar, an Askew production. He had also served as a producer (along with Smith) onDrawing Flies,A Better Place, andClerks: The Animated Series; he served as a co-executive producer onGood Will Hunting andBig Helium Dog. He also appeared in cameos inDrawing Flies as the Crying Diaperman, inA Better Place as Larry, and inVulgar as Scotty. Although he barely recorded any episodes in 2017, Mosier is also a co-host, along with Smith, of theSModcastpodcast hosted by the Smith-owned SModcast.com.

In 2007,Salim Baba, a short documentary Mosier produced, was nominated for anAcademy Award. Filmmakers Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello received the nomination (Mosier was unable to be nominated due to a limit of two nominees per short film).^[3]

On SModcast 77, Mosier announced he would not produce Smith's filmCop Out (2010), instead pursuing his directorial debut.^[4] He stated on SModcast 90 that he finished writing his first feature screenplay and was in the process of trying to sell it.^[5]

On August 10, 2011, Mosier stated on Twitter that he has written some episodes of theUltimate Spider-Man cartoon on Disney. This was confirmed in a special "SModcast Extra" (attached to SModcast No. 204 and episode 5 of theComic Book Men podcast "Secret Stash") in which he and Smith interviewJoe Casey; Mosier has written six scripts for the series.^[6][7]

Mosier made his directorial debut withIllumination Entertainment's animated featureThe Grinch, based on the book byDr. Seuss, and co-directed withYarrow Cheney. It was released on November 9, 2018.

Mosier was personally involved with fellow producer Monica Hampton for a while, whom he met while the two were producingVulgar. He married girlfriend Alex Hilebronner on September 1, 2006. The couple met on the set ofJersey Girl.^[8]

In the documentaryBack to the Well: Clerks II, he states that he is agnostic, but has gone tochurch withKevin Smith on occasion.

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