Rodney Rothman is an American writer, producer, and film director known for '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'', '' Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,'' ''

22 Jump Street ''22 Jump Street'' is a 2014 American satirical buddy cop action comedy film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, written by Jonah Hill, Michael Bacall, Oren Uziel and Rodney Rothman and produced by and starring Hill and Channing Tatum. ...

'', '' Forgetting Sarah Marshall'', '' Get Him to the Greek'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, and also wrote the scripts for ''

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'', ''

'' and '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'', which served as his feature directorial debut. Rothman is the author of the best-selling nonfiction humor book ''Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement''. His writing has also appeared in ''

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'', '' GQ'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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Quarterly''. His piece "

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" was included in ''

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''. His work on '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' earned him the

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for animated films. An animated feature is defined by the Academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by- ...

, the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and

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for Directing and Writing in a Feature Production.

Career

In 2005, Rothman wrote the book ''Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement''. He has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, and also wrote the scripts for ''

'', ''

'' and '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'', which served as his feature directorial debut. He co-directed the film with Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey, and co-wrote with Phil Lord. His work on the film earned him the

, the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and

for Directing and Writing in a Feature Production. In 2021, Rothman partnered with former

MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 a ...

Co-President of Production Adam Rosenberg to form ''Modern Magic'', a media company focused "on creating event entertainment for the 21st-century audience, across animation and live-action". Modern Magic's upcoming projects include: an original animated feature inspired by the music of the late rapper Juice WRLD, an animated feature based on the SXSW award-winning short film ''Nuevo Rico'', and a live-action feature that

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is currently scripting for

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. On August 15, 2022, Rothman revealed (via Twitter) that he was the person that Chris Farley picked up and threw into a dumpster during Farley's appearance on the ''Late Show with David Letterman'' in February 1996. Rothman was a writer at the ''Late Show'' at the time.

Filmography

Television

Film

Executive producer * '' Forgetting Sarah Marshall'' (2008) * ''

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'' (2009) * ''

The Five-Year Engagement ''The Five-Year Engagement'' is a 2012 romantic comedy film written, directed, and produced by Nicholas Stoller. Produced with Judd Apatow and Rodney Rothman, it is co-written by Jason Segel, who also stars in the film with Emily Blunt as a couple ...

'' (2012) Producer * '' Get Him to the Greek'' (2010) * '' Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping'' (2016)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rothman, Rodney Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American animated film directors American animated film producers American film producers American male screenwriters American television writers Animation screenwriters Annie Award winners Directors of Best Animated Feature Academy Award winners Hugo Award-winning writers Jewish American screenwriters Middlebury College alumni Nebula Award winners American male television writers Sony Pictures Animation people 21st-century American Jews