Cathy Schulman

Being a producer, Cathy had seen many peaks and valleys. However as a deterministic woman, she proved her worth by winning an Academy Award for Best Picture for the drama “Crash” (2005). Schulman in a big way has seen the ugly face of showbiz, nevertheless, when she picked up her Oscar, years of frustrations came to a halt. From the time of her juvenility, she had a flame of passion in her to succeed. She was a teen (18) when she lost her father because of a car accident, who was a laser surgery instructor at Yale University. Cathy attended Yale and studied play writing and got a chance to stage few of her productions in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... . Her first job was assisting renowned producers Earl Mack and Michael Taylor, where she helps lead to films such as “Blue Steel” (1990).

After two years of guidance from Mack and Taylor, Cathy moved to Los Angeles with them to work for Barbra Boyle on Sovereign productions. She also made her designation to change to executive and did her bit with the release of “My Left Foot” (1989) and “Cinema Paradiso” (1988). After four years, the lady changed her mind and left Hollywood to be co-director in programming field at the Sundance Film Festival. It was here where her life took the turn towards success. She joined Samuel Goldwyn Co., where she made herself busy with, “The Madness of King Gorge” (1994), “Much Ado about Nothing” (1993), “The Perez Family” (1995). Her next stop was Savoy Entertainment where she became acquainted with Betsy Danbury, the head of physical production, who later contributed to the making of “Crash”.

With this pace, she somehow knew things were going as she wrote them in her diary. In 1998, Cathy and managers Rick and Julie Yorn Julie Yorn is a producer. She was born in the year >> Read More... began knitting an idea about building a production-management company. Sadly, this idea never saw reality, and former CAA head Michael Ovitz outlined in Cathy’s life and prevailed upon her mind to join his newly formed Artists Production Group that released “Sidewalks of New York” (2001). But soon the honeymoon period was over, all thanks to Vivendi-Universal of Studio Canal, and in 2000 APG began to deteriorate. Here, Schulman’s life took an unpredicted turn. The projects were tossed aside that belonged to her. Also she was called into an audit interview where, according to her, she went off guard and revealed company’s accounting details.

Ortiz freed Cathy from her job on being told about her mistake. Following this, she filed illegitimate termination litigation against Ortiz, but later lost and had to pay $3.6million during arbitration. She also faced bankruptcy. However she continued to follow her passion, through indebted payment, all because of a deal with financier Bob Yari. He had links with Bull’s Eye Entertainment, maker of “Thumbsucker” (2005) and “Crash” (2005). Being busy with filming “ The Illusionist Click to look into! >> Read More... ” (2005), she realized later that the movie “Crash” was a huge success. Yari was unable to pay Cathy as he was refused to be given credit by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.A while later, her Academy Award win stirs in her the confidence she had, and she continued what made her Cathy that is to make movies.