num_pages: 304
description: A rollicking autobiography from the legendary producer of Goodfellas Rocky and Raging Bull and an insiders account of making movies in Hollywood over half a century The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky Goodfellas Raging Bull De-Lovely The Right Stuff and Creed. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy Awards including five movies for Best Picture and have won twelve. Winklers new film Creed II starring Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone opening fall 2018 will be followed by Martin Scorseses The Irishman a major mafia saga for Netflix starring Robert De Niro Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. In A Life in Movies his charming and insightful memoir Winkler tells the stories of his career through his many films as a producer and then as a writer and director charting the changes in Hollywood over the past decades. Winkler started in the famous William Morris mailroom and made his first filmstarring Elvisin the last days of the old studio system. Beginning in the late 1960s and then for decades to come he produced a string of provocative and influential films making him one of the most critically lauded prolific and commercially successful producers of his era. This is an engrossing and candid book a beguiling exploration of what it means to be a producer including purchasing rights developing scripts casting actors managing directors editing film and winning awards.Filled with tales of legendary and beloved films as well as some not-so-legendary and forgotten ones A Life in Movies takes readers behind the scenes and into the history of Hollywood.
language: English
title: A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood
publisher: Abrams Press