Ross Katz
Ross Katz ( born May 19, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film producer.
Biography
Ross Katz hired himself a living as a DJ in his hometown of Philadelphia, before he moved in the early 1990s to Los Angeles and gained his first experience in the technical realization of film productions; he assisted, among others, as a camera swivels during the filming of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs - Wild dogs. In the U.S. film production company Mirage he learned from the producers Sydney Pollack and Lindsay Doran ( Sense and Sensibility ). The mid 1990s moved Katz for independent film company Good Machine, where he from post-production supervisor ( The Myth, 1997; Happiness, 1998) is the film producer (Trick, 1999) worked up. Other feature films which he co-produced, among others, were Todd Field's drama In the Bedroom (2001) and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation tragicomedy (2003 ) for which he was awarded in the category of Best Picture two Oscar nominations. In 2005 he received as a film producer 's invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Following the renewed collaboration with Coppola on the costume drama Marie Antoinette, he produced the 2008 TV movie Taking Chance, which also marked his debut as a director and screenwriter. In the drama, based on true events, is Kevin Bacon is a U.S. soldier who has to transfer the body of a 19 -year-old Marines in his hometown.