Bruce Cohen is an Oscar and Tony-winning, Emmy-nominated producer of film, television, theater and live events. He won an Academy Award for Best Picture for American Beauty and earned additional Best Picture nominations for Milk and Silver Linings Playbook. He is currently serving, along with Lady Gaga, as co-chair of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
He was Emmy nominated for producing the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, and executive produced Pushing Daisies and Broadway at the White House for First Lady Michelle Obama. He produced both the feature film and Broadway musical versions of Big Fish, won the Tony for Best Play in 2020 for co-producing Matthew Lopez’ The Inheritance, and was Tony nominated for co-producing Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play.
His new feature film, in theaters this fall from Netflix, is Rustin, directed by George C. Wolfe and starring Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin. Bruce is producing with Higher Ground’s Tonia Davis and George and Barack and Michelle Obama are executive producing. Cohen is a graduate of Yale University and started his film career as the DGA Trainee on Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple. He lives in New York City with his husband and daughter.