Jordan Horowitz

Co-Writer, I’m Your Woman, Fast Color; Producer, I’m Your Woman, Fast Color | Notes on Notes: How to Give, Take, and Transform Feedback on Scripts

JORDAN HOROWITZ (Writer, Producer) is an Academy Award®-nominated producer and writer who has become one of Hollywood’s most prolific filmmakers. He was a producer on Damien Chazelle’s 2017 Oscar® winner La La Land, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. The critically acclaimed film made its world premiere at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Film. It went on to receive honors at festivals around the world including the People’s Choice Award at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and the Chairman’s Vanguard Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The film was later awarded Best Film at the BAFTA Awards; won all seven Golden Globe Awards it was nominated for, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy; and won eight Critics’ Choice Awards, including Best Film. The film was ultimately nominated for a record 14 Academy Awards including Best Picture, taking home six statuettes. Horowitz and his producing partners were also honored with the 2017 PGA Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures.

In 2010 Horowitz served as a producer on Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right, starring Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson. The film made its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and later screened at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Teddy for Best Feature Film. Following its festival run the film won the 2011 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film was later honored with the 2011 AFI Award for Movie of the Year.

Horowitz and Hart’s production company Original Headquarters has several projects in the works including a series adaptation of their film Fast Color for Amazon and JuVee, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s production company; Damien Chazelle’s as-yet-untitled series for MRC and Apple; an untitled Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen election comedy, for Amazon; and the Rashida Jones, Will McCormack and Ben Queen series “Museum of Broken Relationships,” for MRC.

Horowitz’s executive-producing credits include Hart’s Stargirl, starring Grace VanderWaal, which the partners adapted from Jerry Spinelli’s novel of the same name, and Starz’s critically acclaimed series “Counterpart,” starring J.K. Simmons.

Under the Original Headquarters banner Horowitz and Hart co-wrote and produced Fast Color, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint and David Strathairn, which premiered at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, as well as Miss Stevens, which premiered at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. Horowitz’s other producing credits include The Cleanse, which premiered at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival; Rob Meyer’s Little Boxes, which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival; Matthew Weiner’s Are You Here, starring Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler; Julia Hart’s The Keeping Room, which was nominated for Best Film at the 2014 London Film Festival; and Michael Mohan’s Save the Date, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.

A graduate of Northwestern University, Horowitz currently resides in Los Angeles with Hart and their two young sons.