Name Jim Burke | Role Film producer | |
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Nominations Academy Award for Best Picture Movies The Descendants, Cedar Rapids, Kumiko - the Treasure, Walking Tall, The Breed Similar Jim Taylor, Alexander Payne, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Kevin Tent, Nat Faxon | ||
Jim Burke, Jr. is an American film producer.
Burke, who is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, was a founding member of Rysher Entertainment. He was the President of Ad Hominem Enterprises, a production company he shared with Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. The company had a first look deal with Fox Searchlight Pictures. Burke produced the 2011 film The Descendants, Cedar Rapids, and served as an Executive Producer on Tamara Jenkins' The Savages in 2007.
On January 24, 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award for the movie The Descendants.
He is currently the President of Production at Focus Features.
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