# Laurent Bouzereau

Laurent Bouzereau is a French-American documentary filmmaker, producer, and author. He is the co-founder of Nedland Films, with his partner Markus Keith. Together, they are developing narrative films, television series and documentaries.

## Life and career

Laurent Bouzereau is the director and co-producer of JAWS @ 50 (2025), produced by NatGeo, Amblin Documentaries & Nedland Films, and of the acclaimed feature documentary Music by John Williams about the life and career of composer John Williams, produced by Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Lucasfilm, Amblin Documentaries, Imagine Documentaries & Nedland Media. The film premiered at the AFI Film Festival and received the Best Music Documentary Award from the Critics' Choice Awards. Bouzereau is also the co-founder of Nedland Media, with his partner Markus Keith. Together, they are developing narrative films, television series and documentaries.
Bouzereau directed and co-produced Faye, about actress Faye Dunaway, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released on HBO and Max in 2024. His other films include Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail for StudioCanal which premiered at the 2024 Lumière Film Festival,Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford for Lucasfilm / Disney+ and the HBO feature length documentary Mama's Boy, based on the best-selling memoir by Dustin Lance Black. The film was produced by LD Entertainment, Amblin Television, Playtone and Nedland Media and opened the 2022 NewFest - LGBTQ+ Film and Media festival. Bouzereau is also the director / co-producer of Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, for HBO and Amblin Television. The film was selected at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and presented in the Documentary Premiere selection. He directed and co-produced the acclaimed Netflix series Five Came Back, executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Amblin Television, based on the best-selling book by Mark Harris, with an Emmy-winning narration by Meryl Streep. The documentary features Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass, Lawrence Kasdan, and Steven Spielberg.
Bouzereau was born and raised in a suburb of Paris, France. He began his career in New York as a freelance journalist and author with The De Palma Cut while working in publicity and promotion for the independent distribution company Spectrafilm. Upon moving to Hollywood, he was story editor and graduated to director of development for Bette Midler's production company, All Girl Productions. He got his start in home entertainment when he recorded audio commentary for the Criterion Collection on the LaserDisc for Carrie in 1991. In 1995, he produced his first of many documentaries for Steven Spielberg when he was asked to work on the LaserDisc restoration of the film 1941. That year he also produced The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws', a feature-length documentary that was included on the LaserDisc release of Jaws in 1995, and later on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film. Following the success of this documentary, Bouzereau continued to produce retrospective documentaries for Laserdisc, including the making of Scarface and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial in 1996, the making of Psycho in 1997 and the making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1998. In 2002, for the production of A.I. Artificial Intelligence, he began documenting the filmmaking process on-set.
Bouzereau has produced documentaries on the making-of some of the biggest films in the history of cinema, by some of the most acclaimed directors of all-time. He has produced most of the documentaries on the making of Steven Spielberg's films. In total, he has documented over 150 films, including the Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park film franchises. Among the many titles include American Graffiti by George Lucas, Titanic and Avatar by James Cameron, Universal and Warners Bros. Alfred Hitchcock collections, Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai by David Lean, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Casino by Martin Scorsese, Scarface, Carrie, and Dressed to Kill by Brian De Palma, Cruising and The Exorcist by William Friedkin, Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis, Reds by Warren Beatty, Chinatown and Tess by Roman Polanski, and The Last Picture Show by Peter Bogdanovich.
As an author, Bouzereau's credits include Steven Spielberg: The First Ten Years, The De Palma Decade, West Side Story: The Making of the Steven Spielberg Film, Hitchcock: Piece by Piece, The Art of Bond, The New York Times Best-Seller The Making of Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, The Cutting Room Floor: Movie Scenes Which Never Made It To The Screen, Ultra Violent Movies: From Sam Peckinpah to Quentin Tarantino, and The De Palma Cut: The Films of America's Most Controversial Director.
Bouzereau wrote, directed and produced the documentary on legendary film producer Richard D. Zanuck entitled Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking, executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Zanuck watched the film three days before he died. He also wrote, directed and produced the TCM/Amblin Television series A Night at the Movies. Episodes include George Lucas and the World of Fantasy Cinema, The Horrors of Stephen King, Hollywood Goes to Washington, The Gigantic World of Epics, The Suspenseful World of Thrillers, Merry Christmas!, and Cops & Robbers and Crime Writers.

## Filmography
### Documentaries

* Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck (2013)
* Steven Spielberg & John Williams: The Adventure Continues (2017)
* Five Came Back (2017)
* Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020)
* Mama's Boy (2022)
* Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford (2023)
* Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail (2024)
* Faye (2024)
* Music by John Williams (2024)
* JAWS @ 50 (2025)

### Television

* A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (2009)
* A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009)
* A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King (2011)
* A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011)
* A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes To Washington (2012)
* A Night at the Movies: Cops & Robbers and Crime Writers (2013)
* A Night at the Movies: George Lucas and the World of Fantasy Cinema (2014)

### Behind-the-Scenes Documentaries (selected titles)

Steven Spielberg
* West Side Story (2021)
* The Fabelmans
* Duel
* Jaws
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind
* 1941
* Raiders of the Lost Ark
* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
* Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
* Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
* The Color Purple
* Jurassic Park
* The Lost World: Jurassic Park
* Saving Private Ryan
* A.I. Artificial Intelligence
* Minority Report
* Catch Me If You Can
* The Terminal
* War of the Worlds
* Munich
* The Adventures of Tintin
* War Horse
* Lincoln
* Bridge of Spies
* The BFG
* The Post
* Ready Player One
Alfred Hitchcock
* Blackmail
* Foreign Correspondent
* Suspicion
* Shadow of a Doubt
* Rope
* Stage Fright
* Strangers on a Train
* I Confess
* Dial M for Murder
* Rear Window
* To Catch a Thief
* The Trouble with Harry
* The Man Who Knew Too Much
* The Wrong Man
* Psycho
* The Birds
* Marnie
* Torn Curtain
* Topaz
* Frenzy
* Family Plot
* Alfred Hitchcock Presents
David Lean
* The Bridge on the River Kwai
* Lawrence of Arabia
* Doctor Zhivago
* Ryan's Daughter
Brian de Palma
* Carrie
* Obsession
* Dressed to Kill
* Scarface
* Body Double
* The Untouchables
* Casualties of War
* Carlito's Way
* Femme Fatale
* The Black Dahlia
William Friedkin
* The Exorcist
* Cruising
* The Boys in the Band
* Bug
Martin Scorsese
* Taxi Driver
* Raging Bull
* Cape Fear
* Casino
Robert Zemeckis
* Back to the Future
Sidney Lumet
* Serpico
* Dog Day Afternoon
* Murder on the Orient Express
* Network
* Prince of the City
Peter Bogdanovich
* Targets
* The Last Picture Show
* Paper Moon
* Daisy Miller
François Truffaut
* Fahrenheit 451
* Day for Night
Francis Ford Coppola
* The Godfather Collection
Roman Polanski
* Chinatown
* Tess
* Oliver Twist
* The Ghost Writer
Walter Hill
* The Warriors
Warren Beatty
* Reds
Arthur Penn
* Bonnie and Clyde
Cecil B. DeMille
* The Ten Commandments
William Wyler
* Ben-Hur
John Boorman
* Deliverance
Lawrence Kasdan
* The Big Chill
* Silverado
* Body Heat
* Dreamcatcher
George Lucas
* American Graffiti
Elia Kazan
* A Streetcar Named Desire
John Carpenter
* Christine
David Cronenberg
* The Dead Zone
Orson Welles
* The Lady from Shanghai
* Touch of Evil
John Millus
* Conan the Barbarian
Mel Brooks
* The Producers
Robert Wise
* The Andromeda Strain
Jeannot Szwarc
* Somewhere in Time
James Bridges
* The China Syndrome
Joe Dante
* Gremlins
Mel Gibson
* Braveheart
Gary Ross
* Seabiscuit
Terrence Malick
* The Tree of Life
Sean Penn
* Into the Wild
Steve McQueen
* 12 Years a Slave
Lasse Hallström
* The Hundred-Foot Journey
Sam Taylor Johnson
* Fifty Shades of Grey
Colin Trevorrow
* Jurassic World
J.J. Abrams
* Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Rupert Sanders
* Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Matt Reeves
* War for the Planet of the Apes
Kenneth Branagh
* Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
* Death on the Nile (2022)
* A Haunting in Venice (2023)
J.A. Bayona
* Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
James Gray
* Ad Astra
Felix Van Groeningen
* Beautiful Boy
Mike Flanagan
* Doctor Sleep (2019)
Miguel Sapochnik
* Finch
André Øvredal
* The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Wes Ball
* Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes