Lawrence Bender
LAWRENCE BENDER has a career that spans three decades of producing highly successful films with a worldwide box office total of over a billion dollars. His films to date, including such hits as Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards, and Good Will Hunting, have been honored with 37 Academy Award nominations, including four for Best Picture, and have won 9.
His film An Inconvenient Truth, which raised unprecedented awareness about climate change, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2020, Bender produced two short films: the Peabody winning animated short film, Cops and Robbers and the Academy Award winning short film Two Distant Strangers.
Other films include The Harder They Fall starring Idris Elba and Regina King (2021), Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge (2016), Martin Scorsese’s Silence (2016), Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (2004) The Mexican (2001) starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, Anna and the King (1999) starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun Fat, From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), and Reservoir Dogs (1992).
Bender has a long list of Television credits which includes the CW series Roswell New Mexico, the Netflix limited series Seven Seconds (2019) starring Regina King who won the Emmy for best actress, and the Starz limited series Flesh and Bone (2015).
