Jennifer Fox (film producer)
Jennifer Fox is an American film producer. From 2001 to 2007, she was president of Section Eight Productions; before that she was Vice President of Production at Universal Pictures. Fox was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for her production work in "Michael Clayton". Life and career. While attending New York University, Fox worked as a reader of film materials for several in New York-based production companies, including "American Playhouse". In 1997, she was appointed head of the development department at Universal. Two years later, she moved to the vice president of the company and  supervised feature film production. One of the first films created under her leadership films was Steven Soderbergh's 2000 environmental drama "Erin Brockovich", with Julia Roberts in the Oscar-winning title role. In 2001, Fox became head of Section Eight Productions, the production company founded by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney in 2000. During Fox's tenure, the company produced "Ocean's Eleven", "Welcome to Collinwood", "Full Frontal", "Far from Heaven", "Insomnia", "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", "Ocean's Twelve", "The Good German", and "Ocean's Thirteen". Furthermore, she was involved at this time in the comedy "Out of Sight  by Soderbergh with George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. In 2004, Fox first appeared as an executive producer with the detective film Criminal", starring John C. Reilly, Diego Luna and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Afterwards, she worked on the 2005 mystery drama "The Jacket", starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. In the same year, she also executive produced the George Clooney dramas "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Syriana" and Rob Reiner's romantic comedy "Rumor Has It" with Jennifer Aniston. For the court film "Michael Clayton" (2007), Fox was credited as producer, together with George Clooney, Kerry Orent, Sydney Pollack, Steve Samuels  and Steven Soderbergh. Fox, Pollack and Orent were nominated for an Oscar in the Best Picture category, but lost to Scott Rudin and the Coen Brothers for "No Country for Old Men". In 2009, Fox produced the romantic thriller "Duplicity", with Julia Roberts in the title role, and the crime drama "The Informant!", by Steven Soderbergh starring Matt Damon. She also produced the drama "We Need to Talk About Kevin" in which Tilda Swinton plays a mother who is struggling to build a relationship with her child. In 2012, she again worked with Tony Gilroy (they had previously collaborated on  Michael Clayton and "Duplicity"), this time on the fourth installment of the Bourne film series, "The Bourne Legacy". She also worked with Dan Gilroy on the 2014 thriller "Nightcrawler", who made his directorial debut with this film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo. Filmography. She was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.