Kevin Feige ( ; born June 2, 1973) is an American film and television producer who has been the president of Marvel Studios and the primary producer of the

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franchise since 2007. The films he has produced have a combined worldwide box office gross of over , making him the highest grossing producer of all time, with '' Avengers: Endgame'' becoming the

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at the time of its release. Feige is a member of the

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. In 2018, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing '' Black Panther'', the first superhero film to receive a Best Picture nomination and the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to win an Academy Award. In October 2019, he became

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of Marvel Entertainment.

Early life

Feige was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in

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. His maternal grandfather, Robert E. Short, was a television producer in the 1950s, working on soap operas including ''

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'' and ''

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''. After high school, Feige applied to the

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, the alma mater of his favorite directors: George Lucas,

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and Robert Zemeckis. His first five applications were rejected, but he was accepted on the sixth. He graduated in 1995 with a degree in film.

Career

His early work includes being assistant to executive producer

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on ''

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'' and ''

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.'' In 2000, he was hired by Marvel as a producer. On the first ''

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'' film, Donner made Feige an associate producer, due to his knowledge of the Marvel Universe. Impressing Avi Arad, he was hired to work as his second-in-command at Marvel Studios that same year. In the mid-2000s, Feige realized that although Spider-Man and the

had been licensed to

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and

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, Marvel still owned the rights to the core members of the

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, and envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee and

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had done with their comic books in the early 1960s. Feige was named president of production for Marvel Studios in March 2007. Feige received the Motion Picture Showman of the Year award at the ICG Publicists Guild Awards on February 22, 2013. For his work on '' Black Panther'', Feige received nominations for an

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, a Golden Globe Award, and a

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. Feige was awarded the

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by the Producers Guild of America in 2019. On September 26, 2019, it was reported that Feige was developing a '' Star Wars'' film for Lucasfilm. In October 2019, Feige, in addition to being President of Marvel Studios, was named

for Marvel Entertainment,

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and

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Personal life

Feige married Caitlin, a cardiothoracic nurse, around 2007. They have two children: a daughter born in 2009, and a son born in 2012.

Filmography

Film

All films are as producer unless otherwise noted.

Television

Shorts

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Feige, Kevin 1973 births 21st-century American businesspeople American chief executives American chief executives in the media industry American film producers American film studio executives Disney executives Film producers from Massachusetts Film producers from New Jersey Inkpot Award winners Living people Marvel Entertainment people Marvel Studios people People from Boston People from Westfield, New Jersey USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni Westfield High School (New Jersey) alumni