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Jeffrey Katzenberg is an American media proprietor and film producer. He served as chair of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, a position in which he oversaw production and business operations for the company's feature films. Following his departure, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG in 1994, where he served as the company's chief executive officer (CEO) and executive producer of its animated franc…
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business · American film producer and media proprietor (born 1950) · film producer · actor · businessperson · entrepreneur · film director · also Jeffrey Katzenberg, Katzenberg
Born 21 December 1950 · Q550426
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CNBC: Jeffrey Katzenberg on Aura: A set of tools to give parents insights without being intrusive
Yahoo: Jeffrey Katzenberg Says It’s ‘Bittersweet’ to Watch Biden Step Aside, but It Was ‘The Right Thing to Do’
Deadline.com: Jeffrey Katzenberg Thanks “Selfless” Joe Biden & Says He “Couldn’t Be More Confident” That Kamala Harris Will Beat “Would-Be Dictator” Trump
New York Post: Hollywood donors ‘furious’ at movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg for ‘agewashing’ Biden: report
Los Angeles Times: Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo investment firm raises more than $460 million
Katzenberg was an advisor to and co-chair of the Biden reelection campaign
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Katzenberg was named as one of the national co-chairs of Joe Biden's 2024 campaign for reelection as president
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The Guardian: Jeffrey Katzenberg: why working from home was the death knell for Quibi | Rebecca Nicholson
A defunct short-form mobile video platform that lost US$1
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Following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Katzenberg pledged $500,000 to the March for Our Lives gun-control demonstration
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Katzenberg had an estimated worth of $900 million in 2016.
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Which supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race
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The Guardian: Jeffrey Katzenberg: I would pay $75m for three new Breaking Bad episodes
The Guardian: Jeffrey Katzenberg to receive honorary Oscar for humanitarian work
Awarded Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (2012).
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The Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly opened an investigation into DreamWorks and other movie studios for bribing foreign officials
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In acknowledgment of his role in "raising money for education, art and health-related causes, particularly those benefiting the motion picture industry"
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Katzenberg organized a fundraiser for Obama's 2012 presidential campaign at the residence of George Clooney
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The Guardian: Jeffrey Katzenberg | No 23 | Film Power 100
Confirmed that from now on "every single movie" that DreamWorks Animation produced would be in 3D and gave Stephen Colbert a pair of new 3D glasses
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“t see much of a future in it for himself. He told Charlie Rose in a 2010 interview he had topped out:”
Awarded Winsor McCay Award (2009).
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Awarded Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award (2008).
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Katzenberg founded the DreamWorks Animation Academy in partnership with Inner-City Arts, a Los Angeles-based art education nonprofit organization, to provide inner-city students with instruction in digital media producti
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DreamWorks entered into a new agreement to begin distributing its live-action films through Universal Studios in 2009
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Katzenberg made an appearance on the fifth season of The Apprentice
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DreamWorks Animation (DWA) was spun off from DreamWorks as a separate company headed by Katzenberg
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron in 2002, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas in 2003 and both Shrek 2 and Shark Tale in 2004
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Eisner assumed his duties instead of promoting Katzenberg
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Katzenberg co-founded DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, with Katzenberg taking primary responsibility for animation operations
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Where he served as the company's chief executive officer (CEO) and executive producer of its animated franchises—including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon—until stepping down from the title
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Katzenberg discussed with Eisner the possibility of being promoted to president of the company, which would mean moving Frank Wells from president to vice chairman
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Eisner became chief executive officer (CEO) of the Walt Disney Company
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Became an assistant to Barry Diller, the chairman of Paramount Pictures
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In New York City, to a Jewish family, the son of Anne, an artist, and Walter Katzenberg, a stockbroker
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Born 1950-12-21.
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