Years active 1997–present Parents Larry Jinks | Role Film producer Name Dan Jinks | |
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Occupation Film and television producer Nominations Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Movies American Beauty, Milk, Big Fish, The Forgotten, The Nines Similar People Bruce Cohen, Richard D Zanuck, Conrad Hall, John August, Alan Ball | ||
Education Tisch School of the Arts | ||
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Dan Jinks is an American film and television producer. In February 2010, Jinks launched his own film and television production company, the Dan Jinks Company. In July 2011, he signed an overall deal with CBS Television Studios.
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- Dan jinks bruce cohen milk critics choice awards
- Milk Producer Dan Jinks Tell Your Story
- Life and career
- Film
- Television
- References
"Milk" Producer, Dan Jinks: Tell Your Story
Life and career
Previously, working with producing partner Bruce Cohen, Dan produced Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk. The film was nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. Milk was named Best Picture of 2008 by the New York Film Critics Circle.
The pair won the Best Picture Academy Award in 2000 for producing American Beauty. The film, which won a total of five Oscars, was the first film produced through The Jinks/Cohen Company. Their second film was the sex comedy Down with Love starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. Next up was Tim Burton's Big Fish, which was nominated as Best Picture for both the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs. Other films include The Forgotten, starring Julianne Moore, and John August's directing debut, The Nines, starring Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy and Hope Davis.
In television, Dan and Bruce executive produced the acclaimed ABC series Pushing Daisies, which won 8 Emmy Awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe as best television comedy. They also served as executive producers on the series Traveler (ABC) and Side Order of Life (Lifetime). Jinks also was executive producer of EMILY OWENS, MD starring Mamie Gummer for The CW.
In the summer of 2008, Jinks and Cohen produced A Timeless Call, a tribute to war veterans that Steven Spielberg directed for the Democratic National Convention.
In 2013, Jinks was the lead producer of the Broadway musical BIG FISH with a score by Andrew Lippa and book by John August.
Prior to Jinks/Cohen, Dan produced Nothing to Lose, starring Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins for Touchstone Pictures, and executive produced The Bone Collector, with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie for Universal. A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Jinks began his career working in the theatre in New York. Along with Laurence Mark, for six years Dan has produced A Fine Romance, a benefit for the Motion Picture & Television Fund.
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