American film producer and assistant director
James W. Skotchdopole is an American film producer. He has produced films such as Birdman and The Revenant.
Raised in New York, Skotchdopole career in the film industry began in 1982. In 1984, Skotchdopole became the youngest member to be accepted into the Directors Guild of America. Skotchdopole served as an Executive producer on four of Director Tony Scott's films, and collaborated with Nora Ephron three times. He also worked as an Executive producer with Quentin Tarantino twice, on Death Proof and Django Unchained.[1] As a producer on Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman, Skotchdopole won an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards.[2] Iñárritu and Skotchdopole collaborated again in 2015 with The Revenant.
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
- Second unit director or assistant director
- Production manager
- Miscellaneous crew
- Thanks
- Production manager
- Miscellaneous crew
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1984 | A Doctor's Story | Production assistant | Television film |
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1976–2000 | - Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976)
- Charles H. Joffe (1977)
- Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall and Barry 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 and Richard D. Zanuck (1989)
- Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
- Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon and Kenneth Utt (1991)
- Clint Eastwood (1992)
- Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen and Steven Spielberg (1993)
- Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey and Steve Tisch (1994)
- Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
- Saul Zaentz (1996)
- James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
- Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein and Edward Zwick (1998)
- Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)
- David Franzoni, Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick (2000)
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2001–present | - Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (2001)
- Martin Richards (2002)
- Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Fran Walsh (2003)
- Clint Eastwood, Tom Rosenberg and Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
- Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman (2005)
- Graham King (2006)
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Scott Rudin (2007)
- Christian Colson (2008)
- Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro (2009)
- Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin (2010)
- Thomas Langmann (2011)
- Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov (2012)
- Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Brad Pitt (2013)
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
- Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar (2015)
- Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Adele Romanski (2016)
- J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017)
- Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga and Charles B. Wessler (2018)
- Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019)
- Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears and Chloé Zhao (2020)
- Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, Patrick Wachsberger (2021)
- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang (2022)
- Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan (2023)
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