Producer, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Nominated for: Best First Feature

John Malkovich is an industry legend and one of the most compelling minds in entertainment. With a body of work built over 25 years, his celebrated performances span every genre and range from roles in thought-provoking independent films to big-budget franchises. In addition to being an Academy Award®-nominated actor, Malkovich is also a director, producer, clothing designer and artist.

Malkovich’s recent producing credits include the Duplass brothers’ comedy Jeff, Who Lives at Home, staring Ed Helms and Jason Segel, and Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, written by Diablo Cody and starring Charlize Theron, Patton Oswald and Patrick Wilson. Coming soon are Reitman’s Labor Day, a drama starring Tobey Maguire, Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin; and Diego Luna’s biopic Chavez, starring Rosario Dawson and America Ferrera.

In 1998, Malkovich joined producing partners Lianne Halfon and Russ Smith in forming the production company Mr. Mudd. Their debut film was the celebrated adaptation Ghost World, directed by Terry Zwigoff. A decade later, Mr. Mudd landed its biggest box office and critical success with indie hit Juno, starring Ellen Page, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman. The film became the third-biggest indie release of all time.

Malkovich served as executive producer on the documentary How to Draw a Bunny, a cinematic portrait of artist Ray Johnson that won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, and Which Way Home, a 2009 Academy Award® nominee for Best Documentary Feature.

Other Mr. Mudd credits include The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp and Samantha Morton, and Art School Confidential, directed by Terry Zwigoff and written by Dan Clowes (Ghost World).

One of cinema’s most in-demand actors, Malkovich works frequently in both American and international productions alongside many of the world’s leading directors. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actor, once for Robert Benton’s Places in the Heart (1985) and again for Wolfgang Petersen’s In the Line of Fire (1994). His performance in Places in the Heart also earned him Best Supporting Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review. In 1999, he won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor for Being John Malkovich.

More recently, he was seen in the third installment of a blockbuster franchise, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, opposite Shia LaBeouf, for director Michael Bay; Red, opposite Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren; Secretariat, opposite Diane Lane; the Coen brothers’ comedy Burn After Reading, with Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Frances McDormand; and Clint Eastwood’s critically acclaimed drama Changeling, alongside Angelina Jolie and Amy Ryan.

Other film credits include Raoul Ruiz’s Klimt, Liliana Cavani’s Ripley’s Games, Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady, Gary Sinise’s Of Mice and Men, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Sheltering Sky, Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons, Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun, Paul Newman’s The Glass Menagerie, Sean McGinly’s The Great Buck Howard, Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf and Roland Joffé’s The Killing Fields.

Malkovich’s television work includes an Emmy®-winning performance as Biff in the 1985 telefilm Death of a Salesman, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and co-starring Dustin Hoffman. This role also earned him a Golden Globe® nomination. In 1995, he received another Golden Globe® nomination for his supporting role in Heart of Darkness.

Other notable credits include the miniseries Napoleon and the acclaimed HBO telefilm RKO 281, both of which garnered Malkovich Emmy® nominations.

The actor made his feature directorial debut with The Dancer Upstairs (2003), starring Javier Bardem. He has directed three film shorts for London fashion designer Belle Freud: Strap Hangings, Lady Behave and Hideous Man.

Between 1976 and 1982, Malkovich acted in, directed or designed sets for more than 50 Steppenwolf Theatre Company productions. His debut on the New York stage in the Steppenwolf production of Sam Shepard’s True West earned him an Obie Award.

Other notable stage credits include Slip of the Tongue, Sam Shepard’s State of Shock and Lanford Wilson’s Burn This in New York, London and Los Angeles.

Malkovich recently reprised his role as famed Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger in The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer, a monologue interspersed with operatic arias. The production toured Europe and was featured in the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 29th Annual Next Wave Festival.

Malkovich has directed numerous plays at Steppenwolf, including the celebrated Balm in Gilead in Chicago and Off Broadway, The Caretaker in Chicago and on Broadway as well as Libra, which he adapted from Don LeLillo’s novel. Malkovich’s 2003 French stage production of Hysteria was honored with five Moliere Award nominations including Best Director. He recently received a Moliere Award as Best Director for his production of Zach Helm’s Good Canary in Paris.

Malkovich has also delved into the world of fashion design as the creative force behind the menswear line Technobohemian.