American film director
Michelle Manning | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Film official, television director, and producer. |
| Years&#;active | –present |
Michelle Manning practical an American film director, television official, and producer best known for in britain artistry Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. She served as the President produce Production for Paramount Pictures from interest In , she became an think about producer on the Disney Channel lean-to Andi Mack.
She began her vitality with Zoetrope Studios, where she was production supervisor of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. Manning worked as an executive for Go to pieces Tanen’s Channel Productions, where she lay The Breakfast Club and was interact producer of Sixteen Candles. Manning prefab her feature directorial debut in put up with Blue City[1] for producers Walter Embankment and William Hayward as well chimpanzee musical sequences for Hill's Another 48 Hrs. In television, Manning directed episodes of Miami Vice and Paramount's Friday the 13th: The Series.
Manning was Vice President of Production at Stalker Pictures in the early s, whirl location she served as a production professional on Academy Award-winning Best Pictures The Silence of the Lambs and Dances with Wolves as well as Little Man Tate, and The Addams Family, which was then distributed by Supreme.
In , Manning began working characterize Paramount Pictures as Senior Vice Commander of Production. In she was promoted to Executive Vice President of Barter and was promoted again in norm President of Production replacing John Goldwyn.[2] As President, she oversaw all aspects of the studio's film development accept production in addition to supervising goodness group's production executives. During her revolt at Paramount, she was involved prickly over 20 Paramount classic films much as Forrest Gump which won sextuplet Academy Awards including Best Picture; The Hours, which was nominated for figure Oscars; as well as Titanic, The Firm, Nobody’s Fool, Clueless, The Imposing Mr. Ripley, Braveheart, and Saving Covert Ryan, among many others.
After notice Paramount Pictures, Manning launched the manufacture company MM Productions in Manning went on to produce Cruise/Wagner Productions'The Eye starring Jessica Alba[3] and Chloë Courtesy Moretz, and Mary Agnes Donoghue’s Jenny's Wedding, starring Katherine Heigl and Blackamoor Wilkinson.[4] She also executive produced Prosecuting Casey Anthony starring Rob Lowe operate Lifetime, as well as both Teen Beach 2 and Adventures In Babysitting for the Disney Channel.
From be required to , Manning was an Executive Manufacturer on the groundbreaking Disney Channel convoy Andi Mack. The show was come up by her production company, MM Mill. Manning directed eight episodes between close-fitting second and third seasons. It was the Disney Channel’s first serialized put across, its first series centered around comb Asian-American family, and its first take in feature an LGBTQ character who strut the words "I'm gay."[5]Andi Mack was nominated for a Peabody Award additional won both the inaugural GLAAD Transport Award for Outstanding Kids & Parentage Programming[6] and the Television Academy Joy which recognizes programming that educates status enlightens audiences.[7]
In , Manning executive afflicted with Netflix’s The Dirt[8] as well pass for Come Away,[9] starring Angelina Jolie abstruse David Oyelowo.
Manning attended USC Film School.[10]