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
Marvel Cinematic Universe
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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
highest-grossing film
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at the time of its release.
Feige is a member of the
Producers Guild of America. In 2018, he was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Picture
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for producing ''
Black Panther
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'', 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
chief creative officer of
Marvel Entertainment.
Early life
Feige was born in
Boston, Massachusetts and raised in
Westfield, New Jersey, the son of Maralyn and Tim Feige.
He moved to New Jersey at the age of eight and lived there until the age of eighteen.
when he graduated from
Westfield High School.
His maternal grandfather, Robert E. Short, was a television producer in the 1950s, working on
soap operas including ''
The Guiding Light'' and ''
As the World Turns''.
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After high school, Feige applied to the
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, the
alma mater of his favorite directors:
George Lucas,
Ron Howard 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
Lauren Shuler Donner on ''
Volcano
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On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates ...
'' and ''
You've Got Mail.''
In 2000, he was hired by Marvel as a producer.
On the first ''
X-Men'' 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
X-Men had been licensed to
Sony
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and
20th Century Fox, Marvel still owned the rights to the core members of the
Avengers
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Arts and entertainment In the Marvel Comics universe
* Avengers (comics), a team of superheroes
**Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a central team of protagonist superheroes of ...
, and envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators
Stan Lee and
Jack Kirby
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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
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'', Feige received nominations for an
Academy Award
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, a
Golden Globe Award, and a
Producers Guild of America Award.
Feige was awarded the
David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures 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
chief creative officer for
Marvel Entertainment,
Marvel Comics
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,
Marvel Television and
Marvel Animation.
Personal life
Feige married Caitlin, a
cardiothoracic
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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
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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